About The Budget Bounce

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We're an average family in the Midwest, who lived willy nilly with our money for 9 years. The result: a huge mountain of debt and no plan for our financial future.

Then the unthinkable happened.

With $0 in savings, we faced financial ruin in 2018 after Matt got sick in 2017 and couldn't work for 10 months. About 6 months into his illness, I got SEVEN collections calls before noon on a Saturday. I had my sick and tired of being sick and tired moment that day. And we promptly started living life on a budget on February 1, 2018 - less than 2 weeks after that awful Saturday morning.

Here is where we travel the road to financial independence as we use our budget to bounce debt out the door, save for our future, and field life's financial curve balls as they're thrown at us. We share the good, the bad, and the ugly, and we hope you will join us on this roller coaster ride that is our life on a budget!

LIFE UPDATE JANUARY 2023

It's been a bumpy ride since October. I'm sharing all the details, so watch until the end! ------------------------------ GET MY BUDGET TEMPLATE ON ETSY: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheBudgetBounce ------------------------------ OTHER VIDEOS ABOUT OUR LOVE/HATE RELATIONSHIP WITH ALL OF OUR DEBT O…

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EMERGENCY FUND - WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO HAVE AN EMERGENCY FUND IN PLACE

When you're going through your personal finance journey and tackling your financial goals, the concept of an emergency fund that just sits there, seemingly doing nothing, can be tough to swallow - especially if you've never had one. Making our money "work" for us is the primary goal - whether it be…

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OCTOBER 2022 BUDGET SETUP | ZERO BASED BUDGET | MONTHLY HOUSEHOLD BUDGET

It's time to set up our October 2022 budget. We set up a monthly household budget every month in preparation to make sure we're giving our money a job before we get it. Otherwise, it goes every which way, and not always where we want it to. We use a zero-based budget for our family of three here i…

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