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Are You Prepared For An Emergency?

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This emergency might be one related to a natural disaster, or it might be a financial emergency, such as a job loss. My son knows that there are two meeting points out (depending on whether he leaves out the front or out the back) in our neighborhood. You never know when an emergency will arise.

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For example, it took us about 3 years to pay off a combined $17,000 in credit card debt, but later we managed to pay off twice as much in 3 years on about the same income. We also went through multiple job losses, surgeries, huge car repairs, etc. For example, no cable TV.) And so we started plugging away on that.

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