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Back by popular demand:  Simple debt repayment approach...

12/6/2012

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Get Out of Debt, slow and steady:  
For those of you who haven't seen this yet (and for those who want to refresh their memories) here's a Debt Repayment Plan that is simple and will work if you stick with it!
 
Unless you come into a big chunk of money (inheritance, lottery, mana from heaven), there is no easy way to get out of debt. Debt works that way: it’s really easy to get into debt, and hard as heck to pay your way back out.

So if you have a situation like many many other Americans, where you have different debts spread about on various accounts and cards, here’s a good way to pay it off.  To be sure, this approach takes time (as in years), but if you’re diligent, it will work.
  1. First, get current on all of your payments and stay current.
  2. Pay the minimum balance on all of your debts, except for the smallest debt (lowest principal balance).
  3. For the smallest one, pay as much more per month as you can reasonably afford.
  4. Make sure that extra amount is applied to principal (not to future payments).
  5. Keep focusing your extra payment energy on that smallest debt each month until that one is paid off (bravo, now you have one less monthly bill!).
  6. Then, take that extra cash flow and focus in the same way on the next smallest debt.
  7. Keep that up until it is paid off (now you’ll have more cash flow, again).
  8. Focus on the next smallest, and then the next. And so on.


Again, this is not a fast process but it works. This means you won’t be focusing on paying down the one with the highest interest or the largest outstanding balance. The point is to try to focus on cash flow. You want to pay down debts that you can get rid of quickly, freeing up cash flow that you can use.

Good luck and hang in there!

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