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Paying Off What You Owe
A plain campaign for clearing consumer debt
Paying Off What You Owe
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Debt is easier to carry when you stop guessing at its size. This book asks you to write down every balance, every rate and every minimum payment on one sheet of paper, then builds a repayment order you can defend and a monthly amount you can genuinely afford. It is a campaign, not a crash diet, and it assumes you still have a life to live while it runs.
What's inside
- 1The One-Page MapGets every balance, interest rate, minimum payment and end date onto a single sheet. You will finish knowing your true total for the first time, which is usually less frightening than the guess you were carrying.
- 2Stop the Bleeding FirstCovers the small number of moves that stop the total growing: pausing new borrowing, checking for fees, and making sure every minimum is automated. After it, nothing on your map will get worse by accident.
- 3Choosing Your OrderCompares clearing the smallest balance first against clearing the highest rate first, and explains when each one wins. You will pick one order, write it down, and stop revisiting the decision.
- 4Finding the Extra PaymentWorks through where the additional monthly amount comes from without wrecking your standard of living. You will leave with a figure you can pay every month for a year, not a heroic one you can pay twice.
- 5Talking to LendersExplains what creditors can and cannot do, how to ask for a lower rate or a payment arrangement, and what to say when you cannot meet a payment. You will have a short script and a record-keeping habit for every call.
- 6The Long MiddleDeals with the year where the balances fall slowly and motivation fades. You will build a progress record you can see at a glance and a rule for what happens when you have a bad month.
- 7Closing the DoorCovers what to do with the freed-up payment once the last balance clears, and how to build the small buffer that keeps you from borrowing again. You will finish with a written plan for the first three months after payoff.
A sample from chapter one
Write the whole number down
Almost everyone carrying debt knows the rough shape of it and avoids the exact figure. The avoidance is understandable and it is also expensive, because you cannot plan against a number you refuse to look at. So the first task is clerical rather than emotional: one sheet of paper, one row per debt, four columns β who you owe, how much, what rate, what the minimum payment is.
Do it in one sitting. Log into each account rather than working from memory or old statements, because interest and fees move the figures more than people expect. When the last row is filled in, add the balances up and write the total at the bottom. Most readers report that the real number is close to what they feared, and far easier to work with than the fear itself.
- Include overdrafts, buy-now-pay-later plans and money owed to family β anything with a repayment expectation
- Record the rate as the annual figure the lender quotes, so the rows can be compared fairly
- Note each payment date; clustering them in the days after payday removes most missed-payment risk
- Keep the sheet somewhere you will see it monthly, and rewrite it rather than amending it
Key takeaways
- You cannot choose a repayment order until every debt is written on the same page with its rate beside it.
- Automating every minimum payment protects your credit file while you concentrate the extra money on one target.
- The number that frightens you loses most of its power the moment it becomes a row in a table.
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