Twelve days until Christmas! Zoom goes the year.

Here are this week’s debt-reduction related articles:

• CardHub explains how long it takes your credit score to improve.
• Reduce Debt Faster discusses getting a debt consolidation quote.
• The Digerati Life reviews Credit Sesame.
• Miss Bankrupt explains three ways to pay off your mortgage faster.
• Ask Mr. Credit Card reports on the move to cash and away from credit cards.
• Cash Money Life outlines a morbid way to reduce your debt.
• One Money Design gives some money-making ideas to help you get out of debt.

Enjoy!

• 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,......
• Carnival #151 is up at Mighty Bargain Hunter Here are the picks from this week's Carnival of Debt Reduction: Think Your Way to Wealth lists thirty-five places that you can find the extra cash to kick off your debt snowball. No Credit Needed gives five free and inexpensive ways to reduce your debt. Credit Withdrawal talks about getting......

• Mortgage Payoff - We Pulled the Trigger The mortgage is dead.  We killed it. If you have been reading Mr. ToughMoneyLove for a while (thank-you BTW), you know that we have been planning on paying off one of our mortgages.  (We own two homes, one of which we use now as a vacation home and later, as a......
• What You Need to Know Before Going Into Debt Let’s face it, if you want to get ahead in today’s world, you’re going to need to go into debt, at least a little. The key is managing your debt properly and avoiding common traps. Not all debt is bad, even if we have been trained to think that it......