Sunday, June 29, 2008

Credit Card Debts: Causes and Prevention

Causes:
Nowadays, credit card debts became a finance problem face by most people. There are some causes leads to people deal with credit card.
1. Poor money management. A monthly spending plan is necessary. However, most people do not concerned about this and they keep on spending hundreds of dollars for unnecessarily expenses. This lead to their expenses is greater than their income.
2. Spend money they don’t have. People purchase an item not pay by cash but pay by credit card. They don’t think about whether that cash would be better used towards a debt or towards the purchase. This action will add more debt for them.

Prevention:
If you want to avoid debt in the future, it can seem like an impossible task to accomplish. But there is hope and you can avoid all debt in the future. Here, I listed out some prevention.
1. Create a realistic monthly budget. Write down every source income and monthly payment to make sure that your payments are covered by your income. This budget gives you a track of all of your expenses to see where your money is going. This will help you to cut down some unnecessary expenses.
2. Avoid impulse purchases. This is a great way to save money to prevent credit card debts. Only purchase items that you really need instead of not necessity items.
3. Use a debt management program. Debt management programs can be a great help to keep everything in order. These debt software programs can let you see at a glance where you can improve and where you have succeeded.

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