Preparing The Family Finance In A Pandemic

Welcome to another episode of Adding Up, the podcast. We are more thank 2 weeks into self isolation. 4 days after I got home from a work trip to San Diego, USA, my 6 year old son got sick with a cold. 4 days after that my other son, 7 years old also got a cold. The combined result was to take the proactive approach for our whole family to self isolate. With the rapidly changing environment in Australia, now we are in self isolation indefinitely.

I am grateful for many things starting with the decision to take stock of our finances in October 2018, and then to make the executive decision to pay down debt. No one saw the pandemic challenge coming, least of all me. This week I am due to make the final payment on our 3rd and final remaining credit card. Yet now at a moment of time of celebrating this milestone, I am surrounded with uncertainty and my family. I'm feeling consumed by both. Rather than dwell on this, episode 44 of the Adding Up podcast is sharing the challenges of 'what now' with my finances, surviving being home, every day with my family and finding positivity, gratitude and opportunity in every day.

Mentioned in this episode:

- Liane Davey 'The Good Fight'

- Ep.023 Adding Up - Is Debt or Wealth The Answer?

- Ep.034 Adding Up - Will I Ever Get Used To Talking Money?