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I'm Harmony, an average working mom on a mission to do it all, while destroying our debt, so that we can craft a more fulfilling life.
What a fun and frugal family adventure! We used the President’s Day school break to take a road trip down to Virginia and visited Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown Settlement, Virginia Beach, and Norfolk. We also spent some time with my brother-in-law and his wife in Washington, D
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I love looking back at one of my first posts on this site (January of 2015), and reflecting back to when we drowning in $43,200 of credit card debt. We still use one card for expenses and pay it off every month, so I can’t exactly say that we have no credit card balance anymore. At the same time, it feels like we have reached an important milestone in our journey from debt to financial semi-independence in finally paying off the credit cards and shifting our focus to the student loans. If we can push a little harder this year, stay focused, and maybe find a few new ways to earn and save money, then our long-terms goals will finally be in reach.
There are a number of reasons why it’s been pretty quiet on this blog lately, including that we’ve been very busy enjoying all of the adventures that come with being a large, frugal family on the path to financial semi-independence. I can’t believe how far we’ve come in a few short years and it’s going to a great financial update at the beginning of 2019. We made a “Summer Fun List” that included our first family trip to a theme park – as in EVER. It helps that we’ve also settled on a list of frugal meals that make everyone happy, so he’s usually buying the same things.