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How our Debt Freedom Plan Prepared Us for the Pandemic

Family Balance Sheet

How Our Debt Freedom Plan Prepared Us for the Pandemic. We’d survived the dip in 2007, carried no credit card debt, and we were contributing to our retirement. Our small business was going well, so we said so long to renting office space and purchased a commercial property in the summer of 2012. Our first storm: 2007.

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I’m Not Going to My Best Friend’s Bachelorette Party.

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Meanwhile, one of my other friends, who is halfway through nursing school and up to her eyeballs in debt IS going because she feels OBLIGATED. Let me tell you what I’ll be doing with that money instead: paying my rent, paying my bills, and spending on my current priorities. A trip to Europe. Is it selfish of me to refuse?

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Meet a Reader | Mary from Reflections Around the Campfire

The Frugal Girl

Our daughter is 24 and was adopted from Eastern Europe when she was one week short of a year old. When they got married, they bought a duplex so that the rent money from the tenant in the upstairs apartment would pay the mortgage. I’m Mary, and it’s a pleasure to participate in Kristen’s Meet a Reader series.