Family Balance Sheet
OCTOBER 18, 2019
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.
Family Balance Sheet
APRIL 9, 2021
Many years ago, my husband and I faced what we thought was an insurmountable hurdle– six figures of non-mortgage debts. Prior to FPU, we thought we were doing well financially and never considered that we had too much debt. We thought we were doing really well. But Dave Ramsey’s view of debt is very different.
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Family Balance Sheet
MAY 6, 2020
How Our Debt Freedom Plan Prepared Us for the Pandemic. We’d survived the dip in 2007, carried no credit card debt, and we were contributing to our retirement. Our small business was going well, so we said so long to renting office space and purchased a commercial property in the summer of 2012. Our first storm: 2007.
Family Balance Sheet
JANUARY 20, 2023
The last time we wrote numbers-driven financial goals was 2019. That was the year that we made the goal of paying off the last of our non-mortgage debts and we achieved it by September of that year. <<— Once we paid off our non-mortgage debts in 2019, we started saving some of the debt snowball money for college savings.
Family Balance Sheet
APRIL 11, 2020
We paid off our last non-mortgage debt in September and have since sent that loan’s monthly payment to our mortgage principal. We didn’t have enough cash saved to buy a car without a loan and that wasn’t sitting well with me. Also, about the time everything shut down, my coffee machine decided to as well.
Savings Corner
DECEMBER 24, 2023
To calculate your net worth, take inventory of what you own, as well as your outstanding debt. That includes revolving consumer debts — such as credit card balances — as well as personal, auto, payday and title loan balances. If you’re using your home as an asset, its mortgage counts as a liability as well.
Family Balance Sheet
FEBRUARY 6, 2021
We found over $1600 in extra cash…and on the other side…well, you should scroll down for the details! The backstory: In November 2019, my van was in need of new tires and I was debating on whether to get the new tires or start looking for a replacement vehicle. On one side, it could go down as a very resourceful month.
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