Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Things You’ll Need:
- Determination
- Paper & pen
- Set your goal
Step1
Take stock of the situation i.e. draw up a table with the following fields – Credit card name, balance, payment due day (the day of the month by which you are required to make payment of your credit card bill), APR, reward points earned, redemption offers applicable for your reward points balance, remarks.
Step2
Fill the table up with data from your various credit cards.
Step3
Figure out which credit card is contributing the most to the credit card debt problem i.e. highest APR and highest balance.
Step4
Check if reward points can be used to make partial payments or cover any kind of fees or if the points can be bartered for something you need (spending less means preventing the credit card debt problem from getting worse).
Step5
Draw a comparison table of offers available for eliminating credit card debt problem (i.e. consolidating credit card debt).
Step6
First eliminate debt on the credit card that is contributing the most to the credit card debt problem.
Step7
Practice controlled and healthy spending habits (after all you are looking to get rid of credit card debt problem and not aggravate the credit card debt problem).
Step8
Look for alternative means of adding to your income (more money means earlier termination of credit card debt problem)
Step9
See your debt reduce with time and celebrate the day when you finally put an end to your credit card debt problem.