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7 Ways to Spring Clean Your Finances

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Do our goals still make sense now that we’re in the trenches of the new year? Take some time to review your yearly financial goals. SMART goals are: S – specific. T – time-based, tangible, In 2019, we paid off six figures of non-mortgage debts. Did you use the S.M.A.R.T. method when writing them?

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Create your debt freedom plan

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We chose the name, Our Debt Freedom Plan , and we referred to it often when we needed to make financial decisions. Number 4 was knocked out in 2019. We sent our very last payment to my husband’s student loan in September 2019, the same month I turned 50. Update: DONE Sept 2019!! DONE November 2019.

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