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10 Ideas to Find Cash for Christmas

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Our goal is to NOT put our Christmas purchases on a credit card. January will be one giant nightmare when the credit card bills start rolling in. The series was inspired by my own problem with not having enough cash for Christmas in 2012. Hopefully, that’s your goal too. 10 Ideas to Find Cash for Christmas.

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10 Ideas to Find Cash for Christmas

Family Balance Sheet

Our goal is to NOT put our Christmas purchases on a credit card. January will be one giant nightmare when the credit card bills start rolling in. The series was inspired by my own problem with not having enough cash at Christmas in 2012. Hopefully, that’s your goal too. 10 Ideas to Find Cash for Christmas.

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How our Debt Freedom Plan Prepared Us for the Pandemic

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I am totally paraphrasing the year, but had it not been for the money in our emergency savings, we would most likely have used credit cards to survive. We’d survived the dip in 2007, carried no credit card debt, and we were contributing to our retirement. What got us through financially? Our emergency fund.

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