I've got 33k in credit card debt spread out over five cards of varying interest rates with balances between 4500 and 11,500. Each month I pay the minimum plus the finance charge on each card. Am I better off continuing this practice or taking the accumulated finance charge of all cards and applying it to one card to pay that one down faster?
My concern is that while paying down one card the others will accumulate at an insane rate and leave me worse off in the long run.
2007-09-06 14:14:39 · 7 answers · asked by shadowriches 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Credit
Best thing to do is to pay the minimum on the 4 with the lowest interest rates and pay all you possibly can on the one with the highest interest rate.
Once it's paid off, add the payment of that card to the one with the next highest rate and pay it aggressively as well.
Continue this until all the cards are paid off.
2007-09-06 14:21:15 · answer #1 · answered by mister_galager 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Put the extra money on the highest interest rate card, while making the minimum on the rest. When the highest rate card is paid, move to the next till they are all paid off.
You might want to squeeze your budget a little harder and throw some more money at those cards to get them paid off sooner.
The minimum payment should cover interest plus a small percent of the balance, like 2%. So the other cards won't grow out of control on you.
2007-09-06 14:35:01 · answer #2 · answered by bdancer222 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
paying the minimum will take 50+ years. consolidate.
or do what i did until i could consolidate, transfer each balance to a new card, with no transfer fee, or a small one, that has an introductory 0% finance charge for 6-12 months. try and transfer all of it to as few cards as possible. when the introductory period is over, do it again. this way you don't accrue any extra finance charges. see a debt counselor, it's your only chance
2007-09-06 14:22:19 · answer #3 · answered by pinhed_1976 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
See, usually one has the tendency to repay the backside or the utmost. From my own journey lemme tell u one element. The expenses of interest dont fluctuate by even one million% for distinctive enjoying cards so dont decide share clever. the main suitable thank you to get out of this form of mess is by someway clearing off the utmost used mastercard despite if u could pass minimum money for ur different enjoying cards in a month. this form no interest wud acrue on the cardboard which u have used the main and easily the lesser used enjoying cards are closing. stick to a similar technique in the order of credit utilization of the different enjoying cards. it incredibly is lots greater clever than payin interest on all ur enjoying cards....If u dont believe me, spare an hour, paintings out for urself and recognize the fact :)... playstation : dont devote the blunders of clearing interest and vital quantity of ur lowest used card initially...
2016-12-31 14:58:16 · answer #4 · answered by kralovetz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
concentrate on paying anything above the min on one card at a time - start with the smallest balance or highest int rate-your choice
2007-09-06 14:21:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
call a debt consolidator...they will remove all finance charges and all interest included....it's a risky move but you seem to be way in over your head.
2007-09-06 14:20:14 · answer #6 · answered by krystal k 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
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2007-09-06 14:21:23 · answer #7 · answered by Dean C 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋