Category Archives: Credit Card Snowball Method

Which Credit Cards to Pay and Which Cards to Hunt Down and Kill

I finally made a spreadsheet of my credit cards and included the balances, minimum monthly payments and interest rates to help determine which ones need to be paid and which ones actually need to be attacked. Aggressively. I have read in a few places to pay the ones with the high interest rates as soon [...]

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Credit Update and I See a Light

I finally decided to pull my credit reports again after being afraid to look for more than a year. I used to pull my reports annually, but since I started becoming swamped with medical bills and credit card payments, I developed a kind of paranoia and fear about the state of my credit. A big, [...]

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Operation Where in the Heck is My Money Going (Cont.)

I just thought I’d post some more about how I’m going to include my spending in the blog posts. Since Day 1 of Operation Where in the Heck is My Money Going, I’ve officially spent $1 on a bag of chips so I realized that hopefully there will be plenty of days that I have [...]

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Operation Where in the Heck is My Money Going?

I’m considering the “Don’t Spend for a Month Challenge”, which means that for exactly one month I won’t spend any money on anything except of course the necessary bills. Some people make everything from scratch, from food to detergent and use the car only when they need to go to work, etc. The weird thing [...]

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