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How I’m Managing our Family Budget during the Pandemic

Family Balance Sheet

I’ve shared before that April is the most expensive month of the year for us because our homeowners/auto insurance and property taxes are all due, along with any federal or state taxes that we might owe. Fortunately, we won’t be driving much. There is nothing that we really need right now that we don’t have, thankfully!

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Is Self-Sufficiency Possible in the 21st Century?

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Americans pride themselves on their ‘Yankee ingenuity’ – making do or doing without. Copies of personal and financial documents including insurance cards, birth certificates, passports, passwords & user names and etc. However, I have longed to have those back up systems in place. Sewing kit.

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Our 2018 Financial Goals

Family Balance Sheet

I won’t rehash our health insurance story here, because I have written extensively about it and INCLUDED OUR NUMBERS. Read our Health Insurance Story: . What We Left Traditional Health Insurance. Why We Chose Medi-Share, an affordable solution to traditional health insurance. This will take us most of the year.