Debt-Free Home Building

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February/March 2002
By Lynn Underwood 
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It's gratifying the frugal habits we developed during the project remain with us. My son went away to serve as a legislative page during his junior year of high school and spent everything he made. But now that he's in college, he has a job and is being conservative with his money. My daughter has started her first part-time job, working in a grocery store, so she can save enough money to buy a car. She's saved a good bit toward that goal.

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Cyndi likes our financial freedom but still is in the habit of discussing any purchases of more than $100 with me. I'm just now becoming OK with traveling or making "major" purchases, such as a camera. Any sacrifice we made has been worth it, knowing now we have the kind of security a mortgage just can't buy.

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  • Gregory 9/8/2009 1:30:47 PM

    Hello everyone. Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
    I am from Kiribati and too poorly know English, tell me right I wrote the following sentence: "Installments include in, anti-matter into agility, and not believe in once public skills later."

    With love :), Gregory.

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