Family Balance Sheet
MAY 6, 2020
For many households, their finances and budgets are in limbo. My family’s finances have also been affected. How Our Debt Freedom Plan Prepared Us for the Pandemic. Our first storm: 2007. The year 2007 held such promise for us when it started, but by the end of the year, we were brought to our knees.
Family Balance Sheet
FEBRUARY 6, 2021
January 2021 was a month of extremes in my family’s finances. I said goodbye to mini-van life in January when we traded in our 2007 Honda Odyssey for a 2018 Toyota Highlander. I put down half the money and financed the other half. And we paid off six figures of business debt before, we will pay off this car loan too.
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Family Balance Sheet
OCTOBER 13, 2014
Welcome to 31 Days to Organize Your Finances. We’ll talk about cash flow, budgets, debts, and all of the nitty gritty of our finances that might not be fun to talk about, but are so important to discuss. For more on that, read Our Debt Freedom Plan. We would not have survived with just $1000 starter fund back in 2007.
Family Balance Sheet
MARCH 26, 2021
We have lived through some challenging months as small business owners, but 2007 was a very tough year for us. By the end of 2007, our business picked up again–thankfully–but not before we practically wiped out our savings. Both books provided the blueprint for Our Debt Freedom Plan. A Very Tough Year.
Family Balance Sheet
FEBRUARY 22, 2011
The year 2007 held such promise for us when it started, but by the end of the year we were brought to our knees. As self-employed owners of a small business, we have lived through some tough months, but in 2007, it was a tough year. Which comes first: saving for an emergency OR paying off debt? It was a scary time for us.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
APRIL 24, 2012
Forty-one percent of adults in the United States gave themselves a grade of C, D, or F on their knowledge of personal finance (according to the 2011 Consumer Financial Literacy Survey Final Report of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling). According to the resolution: Twenty-five.6
Family Balance Sheet
AUGUST 11, 2016
But for our own safety net, we must make our finances a priority. We charted out our course of action to pay off debts and start saving for retirement. It’s taking forever for us to accomplish the step we’re on (paying off our non-mortgage debt), but we keep plugging away. We had a very tough year back in 2007.
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