End Your Credit Card Debt
Remember how EASY it used to be? If you needed or wanted something, just go ahead and buy it. Put it on plastic, and pay for it later.
Those days of easy credit are long gone in America. They ended with a bang when the financial crunch hit. It may have been fun while it lasted, but for millions of Americans, the end of easy credit has put them on the road to financial disaster! For too long, too many of us lived beyond our means. Now it’s time to pay the piper and we can’t afford his bill!
What did all that easy credit lead to? For the average American family, about $ 18,000.00 in credit card debt! That’s just the PRINCIPLE- it doesn’t include the interest, the finance charges for carrying the debt, or the myriad of other fees credit card companies tack on each month.
If you are one of the millions of hard-working Americans who are mortgaging your future because you practically owe your paycheck to credit card companies, there is hope! You CAN get out from under all that credit card debt! But you need to take action immediately, because the longer you wait, the deeper you get.
DO YOU RECOGNIZE YOURSELF IN ANY OF THE FOLLOWING?
Are you constantly putting purchases on your card, instead of paying cash?
Are you paying just the minimum required amount on your credit cards?
Are you skipping payments on some cards so you can pay others?
Are you using cash advances from one card to pay off another one?
Have you maxed out one or more of your cards?
Are you afraid to open your bills each month, or are simply ignoring themaltogether?
Are you being hounded by credit card companies wanting a payment?
Are you being threatened with collection if your bills are not paid?
Do you already having one or more accounts in the hands of a collection agency?
Does your consumer debt exceeds 20% of your net income after taxes, or your total monthly payments on all debts exceeds 35% of your monthly gross income?
Are you considering filing for bankruptcy?
If you recognize yourself in any of these symptoms, you are in a condition called credit card overload.
At the present time, more than 50 million Americans are in this same condition, and it’s getting worse with each passing day. Credit card debt continues to mount, more and more people are going under. We need to face the fact that we got ourselves INTO this situation, and we have to get ourselves OUT of it, because nobody else will do it for us!
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
How well can you discipline yourself? You are in debt because you have been used to having what you want when you want it. That has to change, and you are the only one who can make that change. Can you do it? Only you know the answer.
Your goal is to GET OUT OF CREDIT-CARD DEBT.
Seems logical, doesn’t it?But unless you actually make this your number one priority and stay with it, it will NEVER happen!
We are all creatures of habit- we get in a rut and tend to do the same things over and over again. Using those credit cards is so easy! And every time we do it, we reinforce the habit, making it that much harder to break!
This is why this step is so dependent on your ability to discipline yourself! Once you’ve decided you are not going to be burdened with credit-card debt for the rest of your life, you, and ONLY you, can make it a reality! It will require a complete change in the way you look at spending. Make getting out from under that debt your number one priority and stay with it!
STEP 1 – TAKE A LOOK AT WHERE YOU CURRENTLY STAND
Get out ALL of your credit card statements for the past month, and read them. I don’t mean “look at them” – maybe for the first time ever, really read them! Why? Because they will tell you exactly where your money has been going all this time!
STEP 2 – ASSESS YOUR CURRENT SPENDING AND CHARGING HABITS.
Now comes the hard part- taking a critical look at what you’ve been spending your money on. This is extremely important because it’s going to tell how you got into this situation in the first place. It’s really the FIRST STEP in getting out of it!
It’s critical that you look at EVERY expenditure, big or small!
Get out your credit card statements, your bank statements, and your checkbook.
Now take paper and pencil, and write EVERYTHING down that you spent last month, and how you paid for it. It doesn’t matter if it was just a cup of coffee at Starbucks, write it down!
The first thing you need to know is WHERE the money went. The second thing is HOW you spent it- cash, check, or credit card.
The first thing you want to list are the “trifles”- those incidental things you bought last month.
(By the way, it may shock you a little to see how much you spend on trifles- that coffee and donut at Starbucks, that bottle of water, that snack at the mall!)
STEP 3 – PUT AWAY YOUR CREDIT CARDS!!
How well can you discipline yourself? You are in debt because you have been used to having what you want when you want it. That has to change, and you are the only one who can make that change. Can you do it? Only you know the answer.
Your goal is to GET OUT OF CREDIT-CARD DEBTS.
Seems logical, doesn’t it?
But unless you actually make this your number one priority and stay with it, it will NEVER happen!
We are all creatures of habit- we get in a rut and tend to do the same things over and over again. Using those credit cards is so easy! And every time we do it, we reinforce the habit, making it that much harder to break!
This is why this step is so dependent on your ability to discipline yourself! Once you’ve decided you are not going to be burdened with credit-card debt for the rest of your life, you, and ONLY you, can make it a reality! It will require a complete change in the way you look at spending. Make getting out from under that debt your number one priority and stay with it!
If you have read this far, it’s safe to assume you really WANT to get out of debt! The next step is to spend $ 5.00 and buy my e-book, “End your Credit Card Debt”. It will lay out a plan for you- a step by step program that will allow you to get out from under your debt load. It has worked for countless thousands of others and it will work for you.
You will find all the details here: www.vanbizman.info/cc
Get it and go for it!
Dave Hallett is a long-time internet businessman who has lived free of credit card debt for more than 15 years.
http://www.Vanbizman.com and vanbizman.info are dedicated to helping others achieve the same status of debt free living he enjoys.
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