A few weeks ago, an acquaintance asked me about my job, and upon hearing that I write about budgets and credit cards (and such), she had something she wanted to share. She doesn’t like to pay her credit card bills on time, she told me, because it makes her nervous to see her bank balance …
Question: I Can’t Pay My Bills. What Can I Do? Dear Steve, I’m so completely freaked out about my bills. I’m now so in debt and worried about it I can’t sleep, I’m depressed, and all my wife and I do is fight about money. I’m constantly telling my kids they can’t participate in any …
“Dear Steve, This debt I’m faced with was accumulated over a period of time, and did not come primarily as an affect from an uncontrolled, frivolous spending lifestyle. Rather, a turn of events that has removed my wife’s income and has left me as the sole provider. During the time that this debt was accumulating, …
“Dear Steve, My husband and I have 3 small children and he has two children from a previous marriage. We are currently only in about 13,000 in debt but cant catch up any payments making it seem harder to get it together on a budget. As I indicated, we are approximently 13,000 in debt. This …
“Dear Steve, I was using this ctredit for my small business and my daughters wedding. At the time we had solid quarterly dividend check with 3 different investments. They went away with the economic crash and thus no money to pay. we have moved out of state and have made payments for 2 years. We …
I am 47 years old with credit card debts totally about 15K and Student Loans in excess of 30K. I married my husband 2 years ago in order to provide health insurance for him and his son due to employment changes. Shortly after our marriage, my employer decided to close the doors where I was …
We are currently in over our heads with debt. We have approximately 6000 in medical bills and about 12500 in CC debt. We signed up for a DMP plan and have been making payments each month until this month. My wife lost her job and went back to school. We have 5 in our household …
“Dear Steve, I have about $36000 of unsecured debt. I am able to make minimum monthly payments on my debts, but that is with my parents paying on one of my accounts for me. Also, I am continuing to use my credit cards for gas, groceries, prescriptions because the monthly payments take most of my …
“Dear Steve, I finished school in 1995. Working three part-time jobs while in school and raising a child a child myself without child support since she was six months. Been struggling from low paying jobs ever since. Now I am married with another child. Between the both of us we make about 35,000.00 a year. …
“Dear Steve, I have about 16 credit cards that have a revolving balance for a while now (around 2-3 years or more on some.) and I’m in a situation now where I’m out of work and had to evacuate my home because of a toxic mold issue. Even when I was working I never made …
