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Our Family Finances Update: January 2021

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January 2021 was a month of extremes in my family’s finances. We’re converting our basement to a family room area and the original family room (in the pic above) is becoming a home office. I put down half the money and financed the other half. That’s our January finances in a nutshell, how was our month?

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21 Random Facts about Me

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I am a 40-something wife, mother, and small business owner who is passionate about my family, food, running, and our finances. I blame the kid before me as he almost hit a pedestrian and riled up the officer that was handling exams that day. The first buying office that I worked in was women’s fragrances.

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How We Paid off Six Figures of Debt

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How we got to six figures of non-mortgage debt: In the summer of 2012, we found an opportunity to purchase an office building for our small business. Financially speaking, he focuses on building the business and I focus on managing our home and finances. Everything looked great on paper. We increased our income.

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