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How our Debt Freedom Plan Prepared Us for the Pandemic

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Life, as we knew it came to a halt for so many of us in mid-March, and life going forward will forever be known as pre-pandemic or post-pandemic. 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. Storm #2: 2013.

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How I’m Managing our Family Budget during the Pandemic

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How I’m managing our family budget during the Pandemic: We pay ourselves at the beginning of each month, so when this crisis started in mid-March, we were covered for the month. We paid off our last non-mortgage debt in September and have since sent that loan’s monthly payment to our mortgage principal.

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