If you are feeling overwhelmed by your financial situation, we have resources available to help you better understand your debt resolution options and how you can defeat your debt the smart way.
The information we’ve provided below will help you further understand how to assess your financial situation and choose a debt relief option that is best suited for you.
A thorough assessment of your financial situation is needed to construct your foundation for financial recovery. Knowing where you are today and what you need to bridge the gap is essential. It also helps to ensure that your plan is realistic, reasonable, and one that you can commit to over time. By maintaining your spending plan, the day-to-day worry about what you can and cannot afford will be removed. It will also help provide you with the single most important thing you can do to improve your situation – stop using credit cards to bridge the gap.
We all have our own attitudes, anxieties, and myths that we have developed about money. We believe that these beliefs are not inherited but are learned. They are learned from prior experiences and they impact our money decisions- how we spend, how we save or don’t save, and how a feeling, emotion, or situation can trigger an impulse buy.
It’s important to identify your beliefs and feelings about money especially when they contradict your goal of becoming debt-free. This identification process is sometimes easier when you are able to take a step back and look at your patterns as opposed to individual instances. Identifying patterns and emotional drivers will improve your awareness. When aware, we can deal with our problems more effectively.
To illustrate the consequences of making only the minimum payment, consider the below example.
Below is a short-term snapshot. Over 4 years, total payments made equal $26,443 with $12,778 still being owed in year 5. It will take 14 years to pay off the entire debt balance.
Annual Payments | Interest Charges | Principal Reduction | Balanced Owed | |
Beginning Balance | $26,000 | |||
1 Year | $7965 | $3,982 | $3,982 | $22,018 |
2 Years | $7,304 | $3,652 | $3,652 | $18,366 |
3 Years | $6,093 | $3,046 | $3,046 | $15,319 |
4 Years | $5,082 | $2,541 | $2,541 | $12,778 |
End of 4th Year | $26,443 | $13,222 | $13,222 | $12,778 |
You can find similar information on your credit card statement. In 2009 a new law required credit card issuers to disclose the consequences of making only minimum payments each month, showing how long it would take to pay off the entire balance.
We want you to succeed with your financial goals, so we've created a budget template and made it available to you for free. Using our template will help you stay on top of bills and track expenses.
Our free Staying Out of Debt Guide compiles some of our best tips to help you stay out of debt or begin your journey to getting out of debt in 2021.
Our goal is to help you pay off your debt. So, we've created a credit card calculator to help you create a paydown plan on your credit card debt and made it available to you for free.
We want to help you achieve your financial goals. We’ve created this one-page financial checklist and made it available to you for free. Use this 6-step checklist to help get your finances in order.
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