Credit Cards

2 Popular Strategies for Paying Off Credit Debt

When you’ve accumulated debt across many credit cards and other debts, the repay strategy can feel a little daunting. You may feel like you’ll never get out from under debt. Even though it may feel a little hopeless at the time, with the right strategy in place you can actually conquer your debt once and for all.

You just need to come up with a repayment plan that works for you. Two very popular and effective strategies you may want to consider include, Debt Snowball and Debt Avalanche.

Both of these strategies involve making the minimum payments on all of your accounts while aggressively paying down one account at a time. The biggest difference is how each plan prioritizes, which accounts get paid down first.

Subscribe To Our Newsletter

By clicking submit, I authorize The Assistance Guide and its affiliated companies to: (1) use, sell, and share my information for marketing purposes, including cross-context behavioral advertising, as described in our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, (2) supplement the information that I provide with additional information lawfully obtained from other sources, like demographic data from public sources, interests inferred from web page views, or other data relevant to what might interest me, like past purchase or location data, (3) contact me or enable others to contact me by email with offers for goods and services from any category at the email address provided, and (4) retain my information while I am engaging with marketing messages that I receive and for a reasonable amount of time thereafter. I understand I can opt out at any time through an email that I receive, or by clicking here.
Skip to content