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Our Big Financial Goal for 2016

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As God is my witness, it WILL be the year that we pay off the last of our non-mortgage debt. At the time, we had 4 business loans and 1 student loan that were weighing on us, so we created our Debt Freedom Plan. Choose Thrift First. This will be a struggle and I’ll need to remind myself daily why I’m doing this.

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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 want to challenge myself to rethink our purchases by taking advantage of more cost effective solutions, like borrowing, buying second hand, or just making do with what we already have. Save for a camper upgrade.

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My 2020 Financial Goals & A Recap of 2019

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My word was REDUCE: Non-mortgage debt to zero. There were hits and misses on this list, and many are things that I will continue to work on, but let’s recap: 1 – Reduce non-mortgage debt to zero. We’ve been working since 2013 to pay off a boat load of non-mortgage debt. clutter/stuff that we don’t need.