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Our Debt Free Story

I’m featuring our financial story each Friday in my “Financial Freedom Fridays”  column. I’ll add links to it here as we build.

  • Part 1:  The Early Years: In Love and In Debt
  • Part 2: Joining Financial Baggage
  • Part 3: Driving Our Debt Around
  • Part 4: The Baby Years: Baby Steps, Baby Boy
  • Part 5: The “B” Word: B-U-D-G-E-T
  • Part 6: The Envelope System – It Makes Your Budget Work
  • Part 7: The ever-important emergency fund
  • Part 8: Dumping Debt
  • Part 9: Freedom to Make BIG Changes
  • Part 10: Facing Setbacks – Meet Murphy
  • Part 11: I Met Dave
  • Part 12: Taking Advantage of the Housing Boom
  • Part 13: What Financial Freedom Brings

Financial Freedom

Taking Advantage of The Housing Boom

The next huge step in our financial journey really came in 2004 when the housing market in Phoenix went absolutely crazy. The house that we bought for $199,900 over a year earlier was suddenly worth about $350,000. Crazy right? So of course Mark starts talking about selling and I start rolling my eyes at him. […]

I Met Dave!

We interrupt our normally scheduled post for this breaking news… I met Dave! Yesterday I got the opportunity to volunteer at the Dave Ramsey Live Event in Phoenix. It was this same event 10 years ago that changed our lives. Before the show Dave came around and greeted every one of the 60 or so […]

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