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The Best Ways to Get Out of Debt

The best way to get out of debt is to stop making new debt. Creating new debt while paying off old debt is like digging a hole and trying to fill it at the same time. The first step to not creating more debt is to create a budget. Not a “how I spend my money” budget like everyone tells you to do but a “how I must spend my money” budget like you should do.

See all those old bank statements you have lying around? Throw them away. The money is gone. Let it go. That is the past. Now you’re moving forward and being smart with your money.

The first step to your “musts” budget is finding all your bills for the current month whether you’ve paid them already or not. If you don’t pay your bills bad things happen. So itemize them in a list with the minimum amount that is owed this month ordered by the day of the month they are due.

Split them into two periods: the 1st through the 14th and the 15th through the end of the month. Add up the total bills you owe each period. If you are paying at lot more in one period than the other see if you can adjust when you pay the bills to balance it out more.

Now you know exactly how much you “must” spend each month and when all the money is going to be taken out of your bank account. The second step is to figure out how much you are paid in the two bill periods.

Add up all the income you make from the 1st through the 14th and from the 15th through the end of the month. Subtract the amount you must pay from the amount of money you make in each period. If it turns out you make more than is needed to pay the bills each period you are not broke. You are wasting money.

Now, all you have to do is make it through each day without spending money you don’t need to be spending. Take at least some of the extra money and make extra payments on debts Pretty soon your debts will be paid off and you’ll have even more extra money each month.

All because you stopped creating new debt and maybe even found some bills that you could do without or reduce. Like cell phone contracts and overpriced cable service.

Once you stop adding new debt you can move on and focus on paying off your debt consolidation loan, your credit card debt and work towards getting out of debt completely.

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