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The 12 Days of Christmas Debt

To get everyone in a festive Christmas spirit, let me offer this cautionary tale of Christmas Debt.

The 12 Days of Christmas DEBT

12 Months of Agonizing Payments

Have you paid off last Christmas yet? How about the one before that?

11 Maxed Out Credit Cards

How much room do you have on those cards? Really?

10 Overdrafts a leaping

Really, how much are you paying in overdraft fees? Just because your bank balance can show a negative value doesn’t mean it should always be that way!

9 Minimum Payments

Do you realize you will pay that off in 20 years with those minimum payments, or possibly 50 years? Minimum payments forestall the inevitable.

8 Balance Transfers

Shuttling debt from one credit card to another is not solving the problem. Juggling chainsaws will lead to a messy end, which is what this is.

7 Cashed in Emergency Funds

Is Christmas debt an emergency? I don’t think that is the emergency you were planning.

6 Pay Day Loans

Pay Day Loans could be starting a death spiral in your finances that will lead you to Day (3)

5 Gold Reclamations!

Did your Grandmother leave you that ring to help you cash it in for pennies on the dollar to pay off debt?

4 Calling Collection Agencies

These are not the bogus ones you get emails. These are the real ones

3 Calls to Insolvency Trustees

They can help, but you can’t keep doing this yearly either.

2 Calls to your family for an emergency loan

You do have to pay those back, you realize?

1 Mortgage Refinance

Using the equity in your house to pay for consumer debt is a terrible thing.

Yes, not very festive, but ultimately a bit too true. I go to Church, and I am confident the Christmas season is not to bankrupt you. It is at a time to get together with family and friends. 

Wonder why you dislike this time of the season? How many of the Days of Debt on the list are you facing in January?

Previous Boxing Days?

I have written on the topic of Boxing Day a few times.

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