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Create your debt freedom plan

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We also didn’t feel comfortable with Dave’s suggestion of a $1000 starter emergency fund, which is his step #1. The point of the starter emergency fund is to get you through until you pay off your non-mortgage debts, at which point, you build a more extensive fund. Number 4 was knocked out in 2019.

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How I’m Managing our Family Budget during the Pandemic

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I have written often about the importance of an emergency fund. I remembered that I have a french press (still in the box) sitting in my cupboard. Emergency Savings = Last Resort. After paying off our last non-mortgage debt in September 2019, we updated our Debt Freedom Plan. I have been using it ever since.

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