Have you considered consolidating credit card debt? If high interest rates on multiple cards is killing you, this might be an option for you. When you go about consolidating credit card debt, you get one lower payment per month.
There are four ways to go about consolidating credit card debt.
1. Take out a home equity loan. A home equity loan is a second, third, or even fourth against the value of your home. You pay off all of your credit cards and secondary debt and make one payment to the bank. …

What would becoming debt free mean to you? Would it give you a sense of relief and freedom that you weren’t living with a figurative gun to your head? Would it mean that you could easily spend your available money on the things you wanted without guilt? Think about what becoming debt free would mean to you.
Keep that image in your head of what becoming debt free would mean, because you are about to make some hard choices. If you don’t keep the freedom image, you may want to give …

Do you want to be debt free today? If you have the money in the bank, of course, you can pay off all of your bills. However, for most of us, being debt free today is more of a mentality than a reality.
Being debt free today means no mortgage, no auto loans, and no credit card bills. It means that everything you earn goes into your pocket for spending this month or for saving for the future.
In today’s consumer culture, that doesn’t seem likely for most people. In fact, most …