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How our Debt Freedom Plan Prepared Us for the Pandemic

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I remember one morning my husband and I were sitting at the kitchen table contemplating if we should sell one of our cars. Our emergency fund. I am totally paraphrasing the year, but had it not been for the money in our emergency savings, we would most likely have used credit cards to survive. It was a scary time for us.

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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’ve shared before that April is the most expensive month of the year for us because our homeowners/auto insurance and property taxes are all due, along with any federal or state taxes that we might owe. Emergency Savings = Last Resort.

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