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Introducing: Family Budget Spreadsheets

Family Balance Sheet

There was a month in 2013 where I hadn’t planned on a large property tax bill and I wasn’t sure where we were going to find the money. Financial Goals – Use this spreadsheet to quantify your financial goals for the current year and years to come. This is a 12 month spreadsheet.

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How We Paid off Six Figures of Debt

Family Balance Sheet

In September 2019, my husband and I accomplished our biggest financial goal in our almost 20 years of marriage. By the summer of 2013, we found ourselves in a pickle–we had too much debt and not enough cash flow. It was so big that I cried for two days straight– we paid off six figures in non-mortgage debts.

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