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Create your debt freedom plan

Family Balance Sheet

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. His suggestions were a good starting point, but we came up with our own number. Number 4 was knocked out in 2019. Update: DONE Sept 2019!! DONE November 2019.

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How I’m Managing our Family Budget during the Pandemic

Family Balance Sheet

I remembered that I have a french press (still in the box) sitting in my cupboard. After paying off our last non-mortgage debt in September 2019, we updated our Debt Freedom Plan. I’m not arguing whether it was right or wrong, I’m just pointing out that this will likely not be the last shut down we’ll live through.

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Tax Reform – What it Means for Employees

For the Mommas

These individual tax rates will sunset after 2025, meaning a new congress will need to determine whether they are extended or discontinued at that point. One major change included in the tax reform law impacts Obamacare: the individual mandate will be repealed with this new tax law as of 2019.

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