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7 Ways to Spring Clean Your Finances

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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. T – time-based, tangible, In 2019, we paid off six figures of non-mortgage debts. Are you ready to spring clean your finances? Review your Yearly Goals. auto insurance.

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Our Family Finances Update: January 2021

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January 2021 was a month of extremes in my family’s finances. We received a $300 reimbursement from our Aflac supplemental policy for an injury my daughter sustained at volleyball in the fall. I put down half the money and financed the other half. That’s our January finances in a nutshell, how was our month?

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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. My family’s finances have also been affected. And I was pregnant with our youngest daughter, so what should have been a joyous year was quite a stressful one. October 2019 Update to our Debt Freedom Plan – We PAID off 6 figures of debt!!

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5 Steps to CRUSH Debt + FREE Debt Payoff Goal Tracker

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It took us years to pay it all off, but we achieved it in 2019. After reading Dave Ramsey’s book, The Total Money Makeover , I realized that we were spreading ourselves too thin and our finances were not as great as I thought they were. For us, we valued camping and our daughters’ activities.

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My 2020 Financial Goals & A Recap of 2019

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However, 2019 was the first year that I found a word that I could stand by. I adored my word and everything about what I was trying to achieve for 2019. By the end of 2019, I achieved one major bullet point and the others will continue to be a work in progress. ALSO our 2019 Financial Goal!). 4 – Reduce my sweets.

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Have a Mindful March!

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We made one big financial goal for 2019 and are striving and working hard to make progress. We started the year with a great January and made some progress with our goal, so to continue the momentum, I wanted to double down on our financial goal and be very mindful with our finances. It’s March 1, and I declare it Mindful March.

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