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adil chaudry
Madskilladil's Blog on "Debt Management" problems such as "interest" and "other charges" that we have to deal with in this moneylife ---------- Madskilladil's alternative Blog on "Addiction, the definitions, the types, and the root cause"
Are you in serious debts? Do you feel like digging a hole and jumping in? Are you already standing in a hole waiting to get buried? Well stop being a fool, and climb out of your problems immediately.
There are many simple ways to manage your debt problems, which may range from trivial to major, and dependant on the size, they are as follows:
1. Stop taking credit, that means stop spending on credit cards, don’t go shopping on your overdraft, don’t talk pointlessly on your mobile phone for which you have a contract, and don’t…. DON’T take any loans for enjoyment purposes such as holidays, cars, or other luxury spending. This principle is pretty hard to obey, simply because human nature dictates that we have limited needs but unlimited wants, so it take huge discipline and will power to obey such a principal.
2. Eat from home, especially if you work in a city. I am a fool for this one, and I spend approximately £6 to £8 per day whilst at work, on teas, coffees, snacks, lunch, and then probably another coffee. If I had the discipline to eat sandwiches from home, or was inventive enough to take an exciting enough meal from home, I could save myself around £40 per week on wasted money on lunches. Again, making exciting enough meals from home to rival the abundant supply of enjoyable food in the shops is difficult, and will power and self discipline is needed to achieve your goals here.
3. Stop smoking. This speaks for itself. To shock yourself and maybe, just maybe make your self realise why you are broke, just add up the monetary value of your smoking. Believe me, its shocking. Smoking 10 cigarettes per day can add up to £20 per week, £80 per month, which is near enough £1000 per year! Stop being a fool. Quit now.
4. Stop wasting money on bottled water. When you were a child, did you not drink from water fountains? So why now do you spend a couple of pounds or dollars per day on a necessity that is freely available from a tap? Its social pressure gone mad, and in this health conscious age we should realise that drinking bottled water that we pay for from shops is not going to improve our health anymore than the water we drink from the tap.
5. Debt consolidation loans. These are a good thing if you have a lot of separate payments to make each month, as consolidation usually ends up saving you large portions of interest payments that you would otherwise have to pay each month.
6. Balance Transfers are a good thing because you receive a grace period, usually between 3 to 12 months, whereby you pay absolutely no interest on your transferred amount, and so create an opportunity to cut lumps off of your debt.
There are many other ways to look at debt problems, and these are just a few angles to consider. Proper debt management takes a pen and piece of paper, working out your exact inflows and outflows, and seeing where you can eliminate useless spending, where you can consolidate your debt and expenditure, and also seeing how you can change the little not-so-obvious things in your life.
Published by adil chaudry on May 10, 2006 05:01 PM
