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7 Ways to Spring Clean Your Finances

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For many, it’s a time to clean the house and the closets, wash the windows of their winter grime, and air out our homes. I’m going to be spending the next few weeks giving my family’s finances a good spring cleaning. 7 Ways to Spring Clean Your Finances. Related Reading : How We Paid off Six Figures of Debt.

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My Word for 2019

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So will 2019 be any different for me? My word for 2019 is REDUCE. I want to reduce our debt by paying off our last non-mortgage loan. . My plan is for 2019 to be different. I ran my 10th half marathon in 2018 and have 2 more races planned for 2019. In fact, I turn 50 in 2019. REDUCE is my word for 2019.

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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. It was so big that I cried for two days straight– we paid off six figures in non-mortgage debts. After the first year, the new business debt weighed on me. Our non-mortgage loans totaled over six figures.

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Our 2018 Financial Goals

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This is our very last non-mortgage loan and we send an extra payment every month as part of our Debt Freedom Plan. If nothing changes, this loan will be paid off by end of 2019, but I’d love to move that up and say adios to this loan! If not, we’ll start saving in 2019. I’ll apply that money to the debt.