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How to Achieve Your Financial Goals (tips from the achievers)

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Wonder what sets you apart from the people that seem to crush their financial goals? with their goals. These folks didn’t corner the market on goal success either, instead they just got the task DONE. His 2017 goal is to make $100,000 in online income. She hit that goal in September 2016. Getting Started.

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2019 Christmas Savings Club

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How did you do with your Christmas spending in 2018? Did you use cash or put your purchases on a credit card? But if those gifts were paid with a credit card that doesn’t get paid off as soon as the bill arrives, any savings from store sales, coupons, and/or rebates might be negated from the interest accrued.

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Christmas Savings Club | August September 2019

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My monthly goal is $100. This should cover my tentative 2019 Christmas budget that I based on what we spent in 2018. If you came up short prior to September, find your monthly savings goal for October and any shortfall from February – September. I’m challenging myself to find the cash outside of our budget.

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Christmas Savings Club | October 2019

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My monthly goal is $100. This should cover my tentative 2019 Christmas budget that I based on what we spent in 2018. Our goal is to have a cash Christmas and usually the holiday season can get a little pricey. The goal is to use the money that you have on hand to pay for Christmas and not resort to using credit cards.

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Our Family Finances Update: January 2021

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Credit cards are a tricky subject and we pay off the balance every month, so I will write more about this soon. I said goodbye to mini-van life in January when we traded in our 2007 Honda Odyssey for a 2018 Toyota Highlander. I talk a lot about debt freedom and that is still a goal of ours, and our Debt Freedom Plan will be adjusted.

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After 20 years, I switched from Quicken software to You Need a Budget (YNAB) software in 2018 for our household. Create our family’s financial goals and Debt Freedom Plan. While our setup has helped us achieve many of our financial goals, we have made many mistakes over the years. Has it been smooth sailing?

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