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8 Steps to Getting Out of Debt |
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Written by Larry Goins
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 08:35 |
The recession is over and spending is going up. Interest rates may even begin to rise soon. According to a recent study Americans are carrying $683 billion in revolving credit card debt. That is not how much we charge but the outstanding balance that we pay interest on each month. WOW! Cambridge Consumer Credit Index stated recently that of all those people who paid less than the entire balance all but 13% made the minimum payment. Using a credit card on a regular basis is nothing more than habit. If you want to change your results just change your habit. You can even go so far as to leave your credit cards at home. Yes, I know it’s tough but if you don’t have them with you, you can’t use them can you? Here are 8 steps that will help you get out from under the burdens of debt. If you have young adult or teenage children I would suggest that you pass this along to them also:
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Last Updated on Thursday, 03 July 2008 09:11 |
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5 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me Earlier |
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Written by Vena Jones-Cox
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 08:33 |
It is a major regret of my youth that no one ever bothered to tell me that working for a living was a drag, or that depending on a job to make you rich was a fantasy. I guess I was aware on some unconscious level that my dad's real estate investor friends were able to go to Europe for months on end while my friends' parents—even the ones with great jobs— were lucky to put 2 weeks of vacation time together each year, but I always assumed that my dad's friends had so much spare time because they were unemployable, never having been told that, despite their paint-spattered overalls and 15-year old pickups, they were multimillionaires.
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