We talk a lot about fast credit applications. And face it, using credit is part of our society. However, we need to use credit, and not misuse credit, or have our credit using us!

If you need to get a handle on your debt, it is important to understand how much your monthly payments are reducing your balance, and also, how a change in those payments would change your payoff dates. For instance, one article suggests adding one extra $1 a day to your credit payments, and shows how dramatically it can reduce your loan balance, and how much quicker it can reduce the balance to 0!

We also like this online debt payoff calculator. You can enter balance, payment amounts, interest rates, etc., and then get an estimated payoff date. You can vary the payment amount to see how that will effect your payoff date. I think it is very important to repay date with ome sort of plan. If you are just paying some random amount towards your credit cards every month, maybe the minimum, and finding that your balance is not shrinking, don’t you want to see why?

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