How to Pay off your credit card FASTER

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Pay off your credit card FASTER

Ever pay your minimum every month for your credit cards and still get into more debt. Find out a simple plan to help you pay your credit cards faster.

Things You'll Need

  • patience
  • money
  • credit card bills
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Instructions

    • 1

      take all your credit card bills and line them up so you can see what you owe.

    • 2

      now line them up in order of importance to you. It could be either the ones with the highest interest, the highest limit, the highest amount, etc..

    • 3

      Each month we usually designate a set amount to pay our bills and pay slightly over the minimum on some and the minimum on others (which is what alot of people do and it further puts you in debt!!). Instead, take your most important bill and but the most of that set amount to that one bill and pay the minimum on the others. Continue this until that one bill is paid off and then move on to the second most important. Still continue with that set amount. This time the second credit card will be paid even faster since most of the amount form the first one is now moved to the second one

    • 4

      Example:
      set amount per month - $500
      citi: minimum is $50, amount on card $800
      Chase: minimum is $100, amount on card $2500
      mastercard: minimum is $80, amount on card $2000

      Month 1:
      set amount per month - $500
      citi: $320, amount on card $480
      Chase: $100, amount on card $2400
      mastercard: $80, amount on card $1920

      Month 2:
      set amount per month - $500
      citi: $320, amount on card $160
      Chase: $100, amount on card $2300
      mastercard: $80, amount on card $1840

      Month 3:
      set amount per month - $500
      citi: $160, amount on card $0
      Chase: $260, amount on card $2040
      mastercard: $80, amount on card $1760

      Month 4:
      set amount per month - $500
      Chase: $420, amount on card $1620
      mastercard: $80, amount on card $1680

      and so on until you are debt free!!!

Tips & Warnings

  • Patience is key

  • you wont be debt free over night, unless you hit lotto

  • do not use your credit cards while doing this and if you do you might have to increase the set amount

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Comments

  • Julie McMurchie Feb 24, 2009
    Helpful advice we should all pay attention to.
  • labellefleur100 Feb 23, 2009
    This is so important to take seriously and face how much debt you are in. A lot of people don't want to know but knowledge IS power. 5*

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