{"id":4482,"date":"2008-09-05T08:20:53","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T13:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/05\/eradicating-credit-card-debt-an-effective-method\/"},"modified":"2008-09-05T08:20:53","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T13:20:53","slug":"eradicating-credit-card-debt-an-effective-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/?p=4482","title":{"rendered":"Eradicating Credit Card Debt: An Effective Method"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style='italic;' class='uawbyline'>by William Blake<\/div>\n<p>Any effective way to wipe out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meyouworld.net\/EG\/tag\/Credit_Cards.html\" class=\"kblinker\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More about Credit &raquo;\">credit<\/a> card debt is going to begin with the same type of advice.  If you are not willing to stop using your credit cards in order to wipe out credit card debt then thanks for reading and good night.  If you are serious about wanting to wipe out credit card debt, and you can stop using your cards, then you can continue.  What you do with your cards once you wipe out credit card debt is up to you.<\/p>\n<p>Many people choose to go through a cycle of incurring extensive debt on their credit cards and then not using them at all in order to eliminate their debt.  Then, once their debt has been cleared, they start charging purchases again.  This potentially infinite cycle will work fine as long as you are able to carefully ensure that you never cross the line and get so far into debt that you are no longer able to get out of it on your own.<\/p>\n<p>Self control is the key to having good personal finances.  This, though, is not a personality trait that everyone can claim to possess.  Storing your credit cards away and not using them, however, is the first step of one effective method of eradicating credit card debt that you can choose to follow.<\/p>\n<p>The next thing you need to do is bring all of your debt together under one loan or other means of consolidation.  You can use consolidation loans or you can wipe out credit card debt by using offers from a new credit card to consolidate your debt under the new card.  If you use the new card method then just be warned that you are probably setting yourself up for even more credit card debt.<\/p>\n<p>You may want to find other ways of consolidation and then use cash for everything else you will be needing for the foreseeable future.  Cash is your friend when you are trying to wipe out credit card debt and the more you can use it the better off you will truly be in the end.<\/p>\n<p>Make It a Separate World<\/p>\n<p>After having consolidated your debt, you will need to set up your budget in such a way that you will be able to contribute more than the minimum payment each month towards paying off your consolidation.  Find those expenses that are honestly unnecessary that you are spending money on each month and eliminate them.  These might include cell phone Internet access and an extra phone.  Getting rid of these money wasting expenses can be quite helpful in your efforts to completely eliminate credit card debt.<\/p>\n<p>It may mean a few less dinners out each month but you need to pay that consolidation off so apply all extra money to the consolidation.<\/p>\n<div class='uawresource'>\n<div style='italic;' class='uawabout'>About the Author:<\/div>\n<div class='uawlinks'>Does your debt have you stressed out and anxious? Quit beating yourself up and learn some simple but effective <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debtsmackdown.com\">debt reduction<\/a> tips. Visit http:\/\/www.debtsmackdown.com for lots of helpful advice.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any effective way to wipe out credit card debt is going to begin with the same type of advice.  If you are not willing to stop using your credit cards in order to wipe out credit card debt then thanks for reading and good night.  If you are serious about wanting to wipe out credit card debt, and you can stop using your cards, then you can continue.  What you do with your cards once you wipe out credit card debt is up to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":540,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-4482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/540"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}