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EASY TO IMPLEMENT DEBT MANAGEMENT TIPS
It may sound
almost too simplistic: but one of the most
effective ways to avoid any future debt problems
is to learn to manage your finances.
Whether we
like it or not, in this day and age that doesn’t
mean sitting down at the kitchen table on Sunday
night trying to balance our checkbook. What it
does mean is taking full advantage of the system
in place so that you pay all your bills on time.
Luckily,
your debt management strategy does need to not
be too complicated; provided, of course, that
you manage it in a sensible way. To help you
out, here are 5 easy to implement debt
management tips:
Use Online Banking
Where possible, use online banking to pay
your bills We live in a computer age, so let technology help you out and do as
much of your debt management online as possible. This not only allows you to
avoid any nasty bank queues, but also lets you do your banking 24-hours a day, 7
days a week.
Provided you can pay your bills online,
there really is no excuse these days for making a late payment (apart, of
course, from the fact that you don’t have the money!).
Reduce the Number of Creditors
Keep it simple -- have as few creditors as possible! With most people, a large
part of their debt management problems arise because of the sheer number of
creditors they have to pay. There’s the credit card company, the store cards,
the utility bills, the car loan payment, the home loan payment, the student loan
payment, and so on and so on.
If this sounds all too familiar to you, try to reduce your debt management
problems by reducing the number of creditor you have. For example: if you
currently have 2 credit cards, neither of which is used too much, why not just
make it so that you only have 1. Better yet, pay off the credit cards you have
altogether. Also, in need, consider consolidation your existing outstanding debt
into one larger debt using the debt consolidation method.
Use automated payment
Almost all of your existing creditors would be overjoyed to hear that you’d like
to pay them via an automated debit system. What’s more, doing things this way
makes your debt management process much easier. So don’t keep you head stuck in
the sand, arrange to pay your debts by the automated payment system.
Don’t have too many bank accounts
Nearly all of us have more bank accounts than we need. This not only causes us
to have problems tracking where our money is, but also means that we have to pay
fees on those accounts. Any effective debt management system relies on you
having as few bank accounts as possible.
Moreover, if you’re new to this debt management process, you really need to only
have 2 types of accounts, a checking and a savings (unless you have accumulated
lots of savings). Then all you need to do is to transfer your savings each month
to your savings account.
Save as much as you can
You never know when it’s going to rain (financially speaking), so get in the
habit of saving as much of your money as you can. At worst, you need to make
sure you are saving at least ten per cent of your monthly salary. To help you do
this, always give yourself 24-hours grace period before you decide to buy
anything. If you still want to buy it, then go back and buy it. If it’s gone -
you weren’t supposed to buy it in the first place!
By simply by following these 5 easy to implement debt management tips hopefully
you’ll soon be on top of your finances and won’t need to consider any debt
management program in the future.
Tips
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