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2019 Debt Freedom Plan Update

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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.

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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. We’d survived the dip in 2007, carried no credit card debt, and we were contributing to our retirement. This new business debt weighed on me. I decided to use Dave Ramsey’s 7 Baby Steps as a guide and I wrote our first Debt Freedom Plan. Storm #2: 2013.

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Friday Links – Long Weekend Edition

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Happy Friday everyone and cheers to everyone who has a long weekend. Check them out: Good Reads From The Blogosphere: When you’re aggressively trying to pay down debt, you may feel that you’ve done all you can to curb your expenses, but have you really? How to Get Out of Unemployment posted at Debt Free Blog.

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Friday Links – School Update Edition

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Happy Friday everyone. Take a peak and see what I read this week: Good Reads From The Blogosphere: Jen from Money Rebound writes about Realistic Ways to Slash Your Student Loan Debt – Such a timely post considering the recent rate changes for federal student loans in the United States! Hope your week went well. How is your summer?

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Friday Links – Time is of the Essence Edition

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Happy Friday everyone. Pauline from Reach Financial Independence shares 5 ways to get out of debt , to show how you can accelerate your debt payments to become debt free earlier. Grayson from Debt RoundUp wants to know Why is Prepaid Such a Dirty Word? Gosh, has this week flown by. This week has been nuts.

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Friday Links – Fridays Are Just Another Day

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Happy Friday Everyone! Friday is just another day of chaos. Paying off debt is hard to do. Read John’s post about his stumbles on the way to paying off his debt at The Money Principle. I wish I could say that with my usual vigour but lately the weeks have been running into the weekends. I am still crazy swamped.

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Friday Links – Back In The Country Edition

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Hello everyone and happy Friday! The Friday links are back now too so take a peak at what caught my attention my first week back. Do you have debt on your mind? CAPI at Creating a Passive Income shares how you can Get Out Of Debt Using Passive Income. I know you missed me…lol. I just love it there.