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How our Debt Freedom Plan Prepared Us for the Pandemic

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How Our Debt Freedom Plan Prepared Us for the Pandemic. As the Family Office Manager , I handle the day-to-day finances for our family and I needed a way to communicate our finances to my husband. We’d survived the dip in 2007, carried no credit card debt, and we were contributing to our retirement. Our first storm: 2007.

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

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Today’s debt free story is from Aja. I own a software consultancy that I run from home and my husband is a letter carrier with the post office. How much debt did you pay off? What kind of debt was it? We paid off about $110K worth of debt. We paid off about $110K worth of debt. Where are you from?

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How We Paid off Six Figures of Debt

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It was so big that I cried for two days straight– we paid off six figures in non-mortgage debts. How we got to six figures of non-mortgage debt: In the summer of 2012, we found an opportunity to purchase an office building for our small business. After the first year, the new business debt weighed on me.

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Our 2017 Debt Freedom Plan Update

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As I reflect back to January 2016, I started that year pretty determined to pay off the balance of our non-mortgage debts. We had quite a bit of momentum coming out of 2015 and I never doubted our own abilities. Unfortunately, we did not hit that goal and in part, have made some major changes to our Debt Freedom Plan.

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5 Ways to Trim Your Budget For Your Child’s College Fund

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But those can saddle your children with debt for 20 years or more! Knowing exactly how much income is going out towards bills, unplanned expenses, and splurges is the first step in saving for a college fund. Place these copies in the home office and make them readily available for review at any time. Eating Out.

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25 Ways to Find Money for Your Emergency Fund

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He then advises paying off your non-mortgage debt before fully funding an emergency fund with 3 – 6 months worth of expenses. Now that we’ve paid off six figures of non-mortgage debt , we are working on saving 6 months’ expenses and maybe even more. 6 – Eat dinner at home. 5 – Brown bag your lunch.

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Our 2018 Financial Goals

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This is our very last non-mortgage loan and we send an extra payment every month as part of our Debt Freedom Plan. I’d like 2018 to be the year that we clean out our clutter. I’ll apply that money to the debt. We will need to cut back on dining out, but it is unrealistic for me to say we won’t eat at restaurants this year.