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Our 2018 Financial Goals

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Did you make 2018 financial goals ? Our 2 Main Financial Goals for 2018: 1 – Finish the will. 2 Additional Goals: If we save the $10k early, we’d like to work on the following 2 goals. This is our very last non-mortgage loan and we send an extra payment every month as part of our Debt Freedom Plan.

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2019 Debt Freedom Plan Update

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Our Debt Freedom Plan has been a long winding road. The journey started in 2012 when we bought an office building for our business and then found ourselves with a lot of debt and not enough cash flow. To ease my anxiety about our new loans, we took the Financial Peace University home course and it changed how we thought about debt.

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Our 2017 Debt Freedom Plan Update

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As I reflect back to January 2016, I started that year pretty determined to pay off the balance of our non-mortgage debts. Unfortunately, we did not hit that goal and in part, have made some major changes to our Debt Freedom Plan. Our Debt Freedom Plan Started in 2013: The year 2012 was quite exciting for me and my husband.

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Our 2019 Financial Goal

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In 2018, we decided to focus on just 2 main financial goals and before I share my 2019 goals I thought I would give you a recap on 2018. Our 2018 Financial Goals: Finish our Will. In March of 2018, we had our wills, medical directives, and powers of attorney completed by an attorney. It’s similar to a deductible.

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Meet a Reader | Mid-Atlantic Julia

The Frugal Girl

I have a degree in nursing and worked in pediatrics for 8 years, then left the profession right before I had my third child. I think I started reading FG regularly in 2018 or 2019. As a teenager, I saved quite a bit of the money I earned babysitting and working in a dining hall. Did you work in pediatrics in a hospital?

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Richard Liu’s Company JD.com Appears On The Fast Track For Early 2019

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

It wasn’t the best quarter to close out 2018 for Chinese e-commerce powerhouse JD.com, though they did come through with one development that’s going to affect much of the financial industry moving forward. JD first became publicly traded in 2015, and Liu remained the majority shareholder until 2018.

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Our Family Finances Update: January 2021

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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. We will work hard to pay this off as early as possible. We…took out a car loan.

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