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With the economy in both the UK and the US looking distinctly unsteady, it is becoming increasingly essential to control your personal spending.
Before we start, if you can follow these three tips, your problems will be far easier to solve. 1. Think before you spend.
Using our usual easy-to-understand system of providing you with information, all the important points are highlighted in bold text.
1. Credit Cards. If you do have a card, make sure it has the lowest possible interest available. Shop around. Lenders are now pushing up their fees. Always pay off any outstanding amount on your card as soon as you possibly can. If you only pay the minimum charge due each month, it could take you years to clear your debt. Aim at a clean slate each month and get out of debt! For extra help take a look at our other page on credit cards. 2. If you find temptation is too great when you are out shopping and that impulse buys are your downfall cut up your Credit Card and concentrate on getting any outstanding debt paid off. When you have successfully cleared your debt think very carefully before you apply for another card. Cash transactions are far better. Hard - but a fact of life! Get out of debt and sleep easy. 3. If you want to buy a specific item on your credit card, ask yourself whether you could afford to pay cash for it. If the answer is 'No', then keep your credit card in your wallet. Don't use it! 4. If your credit card is a 'must' then telephone your credit card company and put a cap on or reduce the amount you can borrow. This will help limit your spending. 5. Store Cards are a definite no-no. The interest rates are usually phenomenal - up to 30%. So again the same advice follows cut it up and clear the outstanding amount. 6. Keep a careful eye on Personal Loans as the interest rate has increased here over the past four months and is likely to continue. Have in mind to get out of debt - not to knowingly increase it. 7. Build up a deposit before applying for a mortgage. Mortgages are now very difficult to obtain. There are now 40% fewer loans being granted than there were three months ago. The higher deposit you have the better your chances of securing a mortgage. 8. Make a serious effort to clean up your credit record. Experian at www.http://creditcheckforfree.co.uk/index.html offer the chance to check your credit rating free of charge. 9. Make a list of your debts in order of priority rent, heating, credit card, personal loans, overdrafts. This will give you a clearer picture of how you should be managing your finances and get out of debt. 10. Debt Relief Orders (DRO's) were introduced in early April 2009 to serve as an alternative to bankruptcy for those on low incomes with little or no assets and debts under £15,000. If you need one of these DRO's it will cost £90 to execute. Applications can be made on-line and the eventual outcome is much the same as bankruptcy. Contact your local Citizens Advice Bureau for further information. 11. Overdrafts must be watched carefully. Do not exceed your limit as the penalties the banks are now charging are, in most cases, excessive. Just dont do it! Also, keep an eye on your current account. 12. If you can, try to build up an emergency savings bank. Even if this just amounts to emptying your purse, pockets or wallet each day of all the small change such as 50p. coins and anything under that amount. Keep this in a jar and you will be surprised how quickly it mounts up.
13. For detailed information on Banking go to our other page. and read about the various banks and their facilities, rates of interest and services etc. In addition to get mortgage advice information that will help explain different types of mortgages. Should you be in trouble with your mortgage more is covered on the mortgate debt and advice. page.  Custom Search 13. There has been much written about IVAs and Bob Kingdom, from the debt collection agency 1st Credit, says "The past few years have seen a surge in a number of insolvency practioners offering IVAs, and while they may be the best solution for some, we would advise people to first seek free debt advice from oranisations such as www.www.cccs.co.uk/ or www.www.capuk.org/ or www.citizensadvice.org.uk/ "
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