Family Balance Sheet

MAY 6, 2020

How Our Debt Freedom Plan Prepared Us for the Pandemic. 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. This new business debt weighed on me. Our first storm: 2007. Yep, life was good.

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Debt Emergency Fund 2007 2020 130

Family Balance Sheet

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Our Debt Freedom Plan has been a long winding road. The journey started in 2012 when we bought an office building for our business and then found ourselves with a lot of debt and not enough cash flow. To ease my anxiety about our new loans, we took the Financial Peace University home course and it changed how we thought about debt.

Debt 100

Debt 2019 Financial Goals Emergency Fund 100

Family Balance Sheet

MARCH 19, 2014

Prior to FPU, we thought we were doing well financially and never considered that we had too much debt. We didn’t have credit card debt, we paid off our car notes early, and the interest rate on the student loan was at a low 2.75%, so we thought we were doing okay. But Dave Ramsey’s view of debt is very different.

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Debt Money Emergency Fund Goals 100

Family Balance Sheet

JUNE 22, 2020

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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Debt Health Insurance Insurance Budgeting 130

Saving With Shellie

JULY 22, 2011

I encouraged you to build an emergency fund or pay down debt with your savings. If you thought my goal was lofty, you should cheek out some of theirs: Merissa at Little House on the Prairie Living is working towards saving to build a new home. Deidre at Cuckoo for Coupon Deals is pledging to be Debt Free in Three Years.

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Goals Emergency Fund Financial Goals Debt 49

Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 17, 2018

This is our very last non-mortgage loan and we send an extra payment every month as part of our Debt Freedom Plan. I’ll apply that money to the debt. Our Debt Freedom Plan (an update): In 2013, we found ourselves with a lot of debt and not enough cash flow. You can read my original post: Our Debt Freedom Plan Begins.

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Financial Goals Goals 2018 Debt 113

Savings Corner

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Coming up with enough cash for a down payment to buy a house can be the single biggest roadblock for prospective home buyers. A down payment is the cash you pay upfront to make a large purchase, such as a home. A 10% down payment on a $350,000 home would be $35,000. But how much of a down payment do you really need?

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Insurance Home Refinancing Money 52