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5 Steps to Crush Debt in 2016 + FREE Debt Payoff Goal Tracker

Family Balance Sheet

We’re going to give it everything we’ve got and hopefully pay off the last of our non-mortgage debt by the end of this year. Calculate how much debt you have by using my free Family Balance Sheet. 3 – Set your guidelines for the year. Take some time and create your guidelines for the year.

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5 Steps to CRUSH Debt + FREE Debt Payoff Goal Tracker

Family Balance Sheet

Your first assignment: Take the first step and calculate your debts by using my FREE Family Balance Sheet. 3 – Set your guidelines for the year. I had no problem shopping at a thrift store, avoiding restaurants, and not having cable TV, but I didn’t want to give up camping and watching my daughters’ swim meets.

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Ten Paper Products To Cross Off Your Grocery List | Kitchen Economics Link Up

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Try replacing some paper products on your list with cloth and re-usable products that you probably have around the house and you will not only reduce your grocery spending, but you will also reduce your waste. I use flannel hankies during sniffle season. I have been using a Silpat Nonstick Silicone Baking Mat for years.

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How our Debt Freedom Plan Prepared Us for the Pandemic

Family Balance Sheet

What got us through financially? I am totally paraphrasing the year, but had it not been for the money in our emergency savings, we would most likely have used credit cards to survive. I still use my spreadsheet to this day! I decided to use Dave Ramsey’s 7 Baby Steps as a guide and I wrote our first Debt Freedom Plan.

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Our 2018 Financial Goals

Family Balance Sheet

We blew through our health savings account, and now need to save another $10k so we’re not caught off guard if another emergency were to happen. This will take us most of the year. The Guidelines for 2018: 1. I don’t want to use the term extreme frugality, because that sounds absolutely horrible.