Easy Ways to Confront your Holiday Credit Card Debt
January 30, 2011
The holidays are over now. It’s the time to step into reality, the mundane world. It’s time to contemplate what you achieved and sacrificed in your vacation. What you have earned are the blissful memories of the moments you spent with your family that you will cherish for the rest of your life. But to gain this you’ve sacrificed your hard-earned money.
Now as the holiday credit card statements are arriving in the mail, you are now in anxiety and facing the stern reality of drowning in credit card debt. Now to find a reliable solution to your misfortune, you need not to consult a debt settlement professional or an Attorney. To help tackle this Holiday debt crisis and to lead a debt free 2011, keep in mind the following tips:
Tips for Getting Out of Holiday Debt
1. Try to pile up all your scattered credit card statements in a way to get a perfect idea of your total credit card debt and how much payment you have to bear each month and what is the actual timespan to repay all your existing debts.
2. Once the data are in your mind create your monthly budget by reviewing your income and your expense. Now determine how much you can afford to pay towards your credit card bills without fluctuating the financial balance of your family.
3. Finally when your budget has been fixed you may explore your options, such as :
- Try to pay your creditors more than the minimum at the beginning of the month and try to sustain your family with the amount left.
- You may go a little ahead and get a consolidation loan to pay off all cards. But it’s advised better to avoid it, as It may lead to another debt burden.
- Scrutinize some credit card counseling programs if they can diminish your principal while maintaining an affordable monthly payment.
- Explore debt settlement programs, specifically those that don’t charge an upfront fee before settlement of your existing debts, as regulated by the Federal Trade Commission(FTC). Also ask them if they can eliminate your principal balance within 36 months or less than that.
- Declare bankruptcy, though always advised as the last resort as of the length & cost of the process and for the severe effect on your credit report as well as in your financial life.
Each and every planning is a huge failure if not carried out with proper care. So, tread on the path carefully with full potential once you’ve decided to get relief from all your burdens.
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5 Tips to Attack Credit Card Debt Video
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Video Summary – (beware of the Poor sound quality)
5 Tips to Attack Credit Card Debt
1. Find out WHO you owe – Collect your statements
2. List out how MUCH you owe – Gather all your bank statements and add up your total debt
3. Create your Budget - Try a free online budget at moneysavingexpert.com
4. Choose the Right program – freedebtexam.com
5. Choose the Right company – debt-professor.com
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Avoid Store Cards
May 14, 2009
They are often promoted heavily in stores and can initially appear attractive, but beware there are many more disadvantages attached to them.
Avoid Store card Tips
- Excessive rates of interest
The interest on most store cards is massively more than a standard credit cards up to 30% APR.
- Pushy Sales Staff
Untrained staff get paid by commissions for signing people with little knowledge about the high interest rates
- Hiding the facts
It often isn’t very clear when you sign up in store as to what the APR or interest rate is.
- Limited Offers
Initiate offers get people to sign up and then they raised the interest rate to record highs.
- You are compiled to spend in the store
With these cards the stores guarantee that we spend on them in their shops.
- Never, ever, use a store card to borrow on.
If you have one, whatever the reason, always ensure you pay off in full
Store Card Tips and when to use them
There are some times we can profit from store cards, yet of course this is providing you never, ever, ever use them for borrowing on.
Reasons to use a store card:
- Grab the initial discount offers.
Many store cards offer a bribe for signing up at various times – such as 10% off the first time you spend on it. - Anything at the discount rate too.
Then get the discount, they get it as well and you pay off the balance in full so there’s no interest charged. - Ask friends & family if they want use the store card discounts.
- Membership benefits.
Many store cards have special store card holder evenings and offers, a bit like a membership club.
