We’ve had a horrible dry spell where I am.  We’ve finally gotten some rain over the past few days.  Now the lawn doesn’t look like the living dead anymore.

Here are this week’s debt-reduction related posts.  Personal debt reduction stories, as always, are up top!

• Money Relationship posts a debt payment update, and aims to pay things down more in July.  Keep up the good work!
• PT Money has thirteen tricks for reducing credit card debt that you might not be using.
• Ask Mr. Credit Card reveals the secret weapon for getting out of credit card debt.
• Debt Tips explains why debt settlement isn’t always a scam.
• Reduce Debt Faster goes through how debt negotiation services can help.

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• Welcome to Carnival of Debt Reduction #119 Good morning!  Thanks for stopping by, and I hope and pray that you and your family have a blessed Christmas. Welcome to this week's Carnival of Debt Reduction! A number of good articles this week, so let's get started. Some of my friends have consolidated their debt with a home......
• Smart ways to reduce credit card debt (This guest post is presented courtesy of Debt Consolidation Care.) Often, you take many credit cards in order to maintain a certain standard of living. But the problem arises when you can't repay of the loans. The creditors start calling you time and again. Your credit score gets reduced. Therefore,......

• New Credit Card Rules Designed to Help the Consumer President Obama is poised to sign a new credit card consumer protection bill into law as early as this week. The new bill is designed to provide some relief to the American consumer during this time where many are dealing with a loss of job or decrease in hours. In......
• Shell PR representative responds to my Credit Card post... Last week I wrote about Shell's Credit Card. Their PR firm, Edelman, took some time out of their day to fill me in on the details and include a PDF file chalk full of information. Of course, if I had researched a little more, I could have found all the......