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Money Matters - How to Build Healthy Financial Habits and Prevent Future Debt

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Start by evaluating your needs versus your wants, and make sure your spending aligns with your goals and values. Instead, you may want to check out thrift stores or buy classic, high-quality items that will last longer. Automating your savings towards an emergency fund makes this process easier and less painful.

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How our Debt Freedom Plan Prepared Us for the Pandemic

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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. 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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Meet Aja. She & her husband Paid Off $110,000 in Debt

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We paid down mostly student loans, vehicles and business credit card debt ( we already own a home outright ). For the last two years, I told anyone who would listen about us trying to make our goal of being totally debt free. If married, who initiated the debt free goal? What are your financial goals now?

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