Carnival of Debt Reduction

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

• Free Money Finance hosts a guest post on 11 smart ways to help get out of debt.
• Christian Personal Finance discusses how to apply a lump sum payment to your debt.
• The Smarter Wallet has a bold way to get debt canceled:  just ask for it.
• Debt Tips describes ways to keep debt collectors from getting nasty.
• Canadian Finance Blog list some debt relief options that work.

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Howdy all! Here are this week’s debt reduction articles:

• Christian Personal Finance relates debt reduction to the World Cup.
• PT Money asks if you know your rights under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
• Miss Bankrupt shares what she’s learned while paying down medical bills.
• Canadian Finance Blog discusses debt relief options that work.

Have a great week!

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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(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, it is extremely important that you should try to reduce credit card debt as soon as possible.

How can you reduce credit card debt? Here are three ways to accomplish this:

• Self help. You should make a list of all of your credit cards in a descending order (highest balance to the smallest balance). Then add all the minimum payments that you have to make on credit cards. You should calculate your monthly income and expenses so that you can figure out how much you can afford to pay each month. Make a budget and cut down your luxury expenses. You can negotiate with your creditors in order to reduce the interest rate. You should stop using credit cards and should instead pay in cash whenever you are purchasing something.

You should make at least the minimum monthly payments on the credit cards. If possible, double or triple your payments on the highest-interest card until it is eliminated. Then repeat this process with other cards one-by-one. You can transfer the balance to low rate card. You can liquidate certain savings accounts in the banks also. This will help you to reduce credit card debt easily.

• Debt settlement.  Under this program you have to stop making payments to the creditors. You have to save the money in the trust account opened by the debt settlement company. When you have saved a considerable amount of money in the trust account, then the debt counselors will negotiate lump-sum settlement with the credit card company.
• Debt consolidation.  In this case the debt consolidation company will give you a big loan so that you can eliminate other smaller debts. In return, you have to make a monthly payment. Usually, the monthly payment is less as the interest rate is low. This helps the individual to save money for emergency purposes.

You can easily reduce credit card debt if you follow these steps carefully. However, one should remember that it takes time to reduce debt.

The smell of fireworks has dissipated, and it’s back to business as usual in the US.

Here are this week’s debt-reduction posts:

• The Debtress has tips for sticking within a budget.
• Live Real, Now contends that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure:  “Teaching kids about money is the best way to keep them out of debt as adults.”

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