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How I’m Managing our Family Budget during the Pandemic

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How I’m managing our family budget during the Pandemic: We pay ourselves at the beginning of each month, so when this crisis started in mid-March, we were covered for the month. Budget items we are temporarily stopping for now: EVERYTHING ELSE! What changes have you made to your family’s budget?

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How our Debt Freedom Plan Prepared Us for the Pandemic

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For many households, their finances and budgets are in limbo. Also to top it off, I had a huge property tax due that month for our office building that was going to be difficult to pay for in light of the circumstances. We have revised our budget and we will get through this storm. We thought life would be golden.

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How We Paid off Six Figures of Debt

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In September 2019, my husband and I accomplished our biggest financial goal in our almost 20 years of marriage. When that loan was paid off, we put that full amount towards the third loan and this continued until September 2019. It was so big that I cried for two days straight– we paid off six figures in non-mortgage debts.

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