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Happy Financially Frugal Life

View this post on Instagram How are you doing? Here are some of my life updates since June. A post shared by Happy Healthy Jenn 😀 (@808happyandhealthy) on Aug 9, 2020 at 11:35am PDT     It has been a year since we’ve been living on 1 income. When I went on maternity leave April 2019, I stayed home for 3 months. We had extra money saved so we were able to live off that.  I then went back to work and my husband quit his job to watch our baby. During this time it was a scary yet humbling time for us! I was afraid we couldn’t pay our bills!   However we were able to pay off the balance of my $35,000 school loan in July 2019 and paid off the balance of my husband’s $10,000 loan with our wedding money.  We were able to live frugally during my maternity leave, but when I went back to work  we ended up with a credit balance at $14,696.63 with 21.49% interest rate and maxing out another credit card about $14,000 with 16.74% interest rate.   How did this happ