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Meet a Reader | M from the PNW

The Frugal Girl

And we can’t—we can’t upgrade to a larger home and pay our mortgage off early and contribute more to retirement, especially since a priority is to be able to travel and have adventures while we’re all young and in good health, and while the kids want to spend this time with us. Do you have any tips for frugal travel or vacations?

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Our 2019 Financial Goal

Family Balance Sheet

Save $10k in a savings account, specifically earmarked for medical expenses. This should have been done as soon as we became parents back in 2005, but we kept putting it off. I have yet to write a Medi-Share recap for 2018, but our goal was to replenish the healthcare savings account that we depleted in 2017.