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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

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Our emergency fund has saved us countless times and it will save us once again with the truck. If you can’t answer with the word, CASH , then please, set yourself up for success and build your emergency fund. Follow these three action steps and the list of ideas below to find the cash for your fund.

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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. And I was pregnant with our youngest daughter, so what should have been a joyous year was quite a stressful one. Our emergency fund. We reduced our spending where we could, but the money to pay any shortfall each month came from our emergency fund.

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5 Steps to CRUSH Debt + FREE Debt Payoff Goal Tracker

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Being self-employed, we felt we needed more than Dave’s recommended $1000 starter emergency fund that he outlines in his book, so our first step was to save a bit more for our home and office. For us, we valued camping and our daughters’ activities. This list became our personal Debt Freedom Plan.

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Over 40 and Worried about Money? Start here!

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I’m busy raising my daughters with my 50-something husband, managing our small business, and writing my blog. I’m on this journey to financial wellness with you and every weekend, I pack the newsletter with budgeting inspiration, money-saving tips & ideas, and frugal, yet tasty recipes. And Read some more.

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How to Get into the Stock Market

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Traditional investment advice says that you shouldn’t invest in the market until you are financially stable, have an emergency fund and have taken care of other basics, such as insurance of all kinds, debt removal and etc. My father-in-law lined up his grown sons and daughters to chip into a fund, from which he bought stock.

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Our Big Financial Goal for 2016

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We have a retirement to plan , our daughters’ college to save for, and many places to visit. You can only cut so much from a budget, so to fill in our shortfall, we’ll need to also earn extra income by growing our small business and growing my blog income. We will control our money, rather than our money controlling us.

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How Krystal and Josh paid off $80k in 4 years!

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strict budget. emergency fund, so we started throwing what little extra we had straight. We committed to using a cash budget, and we talked daily at. and using all of our extra funds, like bonuses from work and tax returns, we were able to pay everything off in 4 years! 1 – Set a budget. towards debt.

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