When confronted with debt, sometimes “just paying it off” isn’t as easy as it sounds. Unfortunately, your debt won’t disappear overnight, nor will it help you to ignore your obligations. However, with perseverance and determination, you will pay off your debt. To get started, here are a few tips.

#1: Learn to Snowball

One of the best debt elimination techniques is the snowball method. Basically, start by examining the balances and interest rates on your credit cards. Find the card with the highest rate and focus/divert your resources to paying down that card while making the minimum payments on the others. Once this card is finished, move on to the one with the second-highest rate and so on. You’ll find that as your debts decrease, the amount of money you have to tackle remaining debt increases.

Another way to snowball your debt is to transfer your balances to a low-interest card. In some cases, look for banks offering promotional transfer rates that can substantially reduce your monthly payments for a brief time and allow you to hit the principal hard. Watch out though, at the end of the promotion the new rate may be applied retroactively to all outstanding balances!

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