Debt Management Changes Spending Habits Word Count: 448 Summary: Chances are, if I asked anyone on the street if they were in debt, the answer would be yes. Milions of Americans fall further into debt every single day. What used to be the American Dream has now become the American Way. We see something, we want it, we buy it. No cash on hand? No problem, just use credit. Right? Wrong! Credit card debt is sweeping the country in very much the same way an illness or plague could. Infecting uneducated buyers and reducing their lives ... Keywords: consolidating debt, debt management, credit counseling Article Body: Chances are, if I asked anyone on the street if they were in debt, the answer would be yes. Milions of Americans fall further into debt every single day. What used to be the American Dream has now become the American Way. We see something, we want it, we buy it. No cash on hand? No problem, just use credit. Right? Wrong! Credit card debt is sweeping the country in very much the same way an illness or plague could. Infecting uneducated buyers and reducing their lives to a stressful, existence of trying to make ends meet. It is time to stop the infection. Now is the time to get some decent advice about consolidating debt. Debt consolidation is not really an easy solution, but it is one with proven results. There is no waving of a magic wand to make the debt go away, instead it requires looking at the debt, recognizing the vastness of it, and actually creating a plan to pay it. The load is reduced as the payments are applied. Slowly and steadily the load gets smaller and smaller until eventually credit cards, student loans, and all the other consumer debts that you ran up without giving a second thought are removed from your shoulders where they have been weighing you down. One prudent debt management solution would be to consider a consolidation loan that would lump all the little burden bills into one bigger burden bills. The advantages would be that you have only one monthly bill to pay. This is a good thing unless you have incredibly low interest rates on your individual debts. I’m guessing you don’t. You can look online for debt consolidation advice. There are many qualified credit counseling professionals that can help you map out a debt consolidation plan and help you find low interest rate consolidation loans to replace the multitude of little higher interest rate debts you juggle on a monthly basis. You may even find that you can keep more money in your pocket each month for the necessities you have been doing without. I know that for me, the debt consolidation advice I found online was not only useful, but truly life changing. It was free. Yes, free. And it was so incredibly easy to talk to the representative and then make a plan that I could live with. Now, I pay one bill with payments that are about half of the combined total I paid before. Try it. You don’t have anything at all to lose, except that stress headache you get every time you try to stretch your paycheck to cover all those little bills that are piling up.