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How our Debt Freedom Plan Prepared Us for the Pandemic

Family Balance Sheet

Also to top it off, I had a huge property tax due that month for our office building that was going to be difficult to pay for in light of the circumstances. But in August 2013 , our business softened, renovations to our new building were more costly than planned, and we were now the owners of two mortgages: our home and our business.

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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. Alan and I, by choice, bought land in an area with low property taxes. Had we not fallen in love with the locale, it wouldn’t have mattered how low the taxes were, but fall in love we did. Our son is 29 and biological.