In the modern world, economic and financial challenges are a worry for all of us. Of these concerns, the most common one is mounting debt and the biggest form of debt tends to be credit cards. To tackle your credit card debt, it’s important o understand what’s contributing to that debt and how to get a break from your credit card company.
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How to Get Your Credit Card Company to Lower Your Interest Rate
September 1, 2010Charge It: The True Cost of this Shopping Mantra
August 24, 2010For women, it may be the latest pair of beautiful shoes. For guys, it may be a box of favorite cigars. Either way, the “buy now pay later mentality” that most Americans have means pulling out the plastic and worrying about how they are going to pay for the purchases later. When you learn how much that pair of shoes or box of cigars truly costs you if you don’t pay off your credit card bill in full at the end of the month, you may no longer think that purchase was worth it.
Will Closing Credit Card Accounts Help Your Credit Score?
May 29, 2008Quizzle is a Knowledge Partner on Yahoo! Answers and frequently helps folks there with questions about personal finance and credit. One question that seems to come up frequently is: will closing credit card account boost my credit score? The short answer is generally, no. Roughly 30 percent of your credit score is “amounts owed,” which [...]
How I Got Out of Debt
January 24, 2008After many years of looking at overwhelming balances on my credit card statements, it was one heck of a feeling when I saw all of those balances finally at zero. That’s right — I got myself out of debt! Well, okay, I still have a bit of low-interest student loan debt, but the kind of debt I’m [...]
