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One year of debt freedom

06/05/08

Permalink 04:22:50 pm, by Jeremy Email , 143 words, 392 views   English (US)
Categories: Money

One year of debt freedom

So it has now been one year since we became debt free!

How has life changed? I must say as good as it felt to be debt free, it felt much better when we had 3 months of expenses saved as an emergency fund.

In the last year we have:

  • Saved $16,000 as an emergency fund
  • Saved $3000 for new furniture (and spent it on the new furniture.)
  • Bought a cheap car and gave it away as a gift
  • Saved $3300 for our vacation fund.
  • Paid down the mortgage by $2311.24
  • I was laid off from my job, and had enough money saved for 7 months
  • Started a new job, just two weeks later, making slightly more than the old job.
  • Opened a Roth IRA: $3935.35 contributed so far.
  • Starting funding College Funds: $2576.82 so far.
  • Our net worth has increased by $29,046.38 (despite the stock market doing so badly)

Thanks Dave

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