What is the true cost of servicing debt? Consider this, our standard file: $50,000 of credit card debt. If the person would like to pay the $50,000 off in 5 years, they would have to pay an estimated $1,541.67 per month for 60 months. Therefore, the total payback = $92,500 In order to pay back...Continue reading
School’s Out: What You’ve Learned from Debt Students all over the country are graduating, moving on to bright futures and unlimited possibilities with the confidence that they can accomplish anything they set their minds to. Oh, to be that optimistic again! Oh, to be 18 or 21 and venturing out on your own for the...Continue reading
Knowledge is Power: Learning about Debt Ignorance is bliss, unless you’re trying to have a conversation with it. The world is full of so-called experts claiming to know what is right for you. They try to dictate what you wear, how you eat, where you shop, even where you learn. A lot of this so-called...Continue reading
Debt and Emergency Preparedness When is an emergency really an emergency? To some it’s an emergency when you need a snack and your chocolate bar gets stuck in the vending machine. Of course the folks at 911 will probably tell you that’s more of an inconvenience. By definition an Emergency is “a serious, unexpected, and...Continue reading
Booking your summer vacation from Debt Before you know it the kids will be out of school for the summer. And they have big plans for your wallet. Summer camp, amusement parks, waterslides, a week at the lake, a few days with their cool aunt in the city, and of course child care because unlike...Continue reading
Debt and Millennials: What Would you tell your 20 something self? Millennials are getting a bad rap. I blame the man bun but it could be the know-it-all sense of entitlement with just a hint of pretentious arrogance. If you are rolling your eyes right now, you are probably a millennial. That said were we...Continue reading
Debt Help and Debt Relief Experts There are a lot of people claiming to be authorities in their field. They bluster and grand stand and shout their knowledge to the heavens, without really saying anything at all. But here’s a simple fact worth remembering….not everyone is the expert they claim to be. Just because you...Continue reading
Debt Consolidation and Diet Pills Debt consolidation and diet pills. How can those 2 very different topics be included in the same article? If you are looking for debt help and think that consolidating all of your debts into one loan is an easy way to clear up your debts, but you don’t make the...Continue reading
The debt monster in your closet Do you have a monster in your closet? Maybe you put it there because you thought “out of sight, out of mind” but that monster probably keeps sneaking out of the closet at night, scares the living daylights out of you and causes you a great deal of lack...Continue reading
Does your debt make you feel like you’re trapped in quicksand? Does being in debt feel like being stuck in quicksand… pulling you down further and further? Quicksand is basically just ordinary sand that has been so saturated with water that the friction between sand particles is reduced. The resulting sand is a mushy mixture of...Continue reading
