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A personal finance expert's blunt advice on paying down personal debt
The Street
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3/25/2025
With consumer debt hitting record levels, here's a simple method to shrink your credit card balances.
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A lot of personal finance folks just say pay off your credit card every month and make
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sure you're not getting into debt.
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But I actually encourage all my clients to pay off their credit cards every week.
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And that's a big change for people, especially those who feel like, oh, they're not actually
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in a bad shape because they pay off their credit card every month.
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What I found is that a lot of folks, even though they're paying off every month, they're
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actually behind.
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If you think about it, all those expenses that are accruing for that balance that you
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pay at the end of the month was sometimes 30 days ago if it started in that cycle.
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And so what I found for folks to be able to really get ahead of that debt, especially
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with credit card interest rates being so high right now, is to pay it off every week.
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And so taking 15 minutes on a Friday afternoon to check in on it makes a big difference.
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