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Doing it Debt Free

Written by: James Dicks

Article Overview: James Dicks explains the importance of the US population paying off their personal debt as soon as possible.

Doing it Debt Free

Enough is enough. Credit is killing us...literally. Now credit has been around forever and we should remember that the number one reason for credit is to make the lender rich. I know I have written about some of this before but I can't say it enough. Credit is probably as much an addiction as anything. People get so addicted to it they can't control themselves. I am not a doctor but I would imagine that the simple reason some people get so over extended is that they run their credit cards up and then the interest literally chokes them. What happens is that people get depressed. When that happens, some people will go out to the mall or wherever and buy something, anything that doesn't matter. That immediately makes these individuals feel better, at least until they get buyer's remorse. Shopping for clothes, electronics, cars or whatever, is normally associated with a good feeling, so the next time you feel down you end up going shopping to buy something to make yourself feel better. There are two problems with this; I doubt that many of you pull out cash to purchase these items, and you no doubt use a credit card. If you don't pay it off at the end of the month, you start to get hit with interest which is usually so high that it is hard to ever get ahead.

Second, the purchases get bigger; you will ultimately have to spend more and more to feel better. This is a losing proposition all the way around. What we need to do is eliminate credit all together. We need to start paying for our purchases outright. Yes, credit cards are okay, but you must use them wisely and pay them off at the end of each month. So what else do you need credit for? Maybe for a car or a home. You can always a buy a used car and save money. You can develop a strategy concerning your home loan by paying off extra principal every month. My point is, if you use credit, you have to have a plan to pay it off and get it paid off as soon as possible.

Credit only exists for one reason and that is to make you a slave to it and make the lender rich. Everyone in America should start taking conscious control of their outstanding debt and begin to eliminate it. Let's make the lending institutions suffer a little, let's make them squirm when they wake up one morning and realize that we have all decide to take back control of our finances. Remember that if you are saving money you are making money.

Start calling all your creditors and ask them for an interest rate reduction, don't take no for an answer. You may have to talk to several people but you will find one that can help you lower your interest rate. Not everyone at the bank will even know that they can lower your interest rate but they can and they will, if you are persistent enough.

If you are skeptical just know this, in one of our worst financial times I can remember the banks are doing everything they can to make more money at our expenses, so much in fact that the president has to get Congress to put restrictions on what they can and can't charge for. The banks are adding new expenses and fees to our accounts, they are raising interest rates faster then we can pay our bills. Why? Because they are greedy and want to make sure we don't get off their credit "drug," so to speak. our society has become credit junkies. It's time to quit and start living debt free. As a nation, we are spenders...not savers. This paradigm has shifted over the last 40 years. And we are bigger spenders than our brothers in the East. Asia, for instance, saves much more than we do and that has a global affect on our economies. With financial times as tough as they are now, people are realizing that saving is something we all have to get back to.

Let's do it debt free.

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