25 Reasons To Get Out of Debt Today
July 22, 2008 by Erik Folgate
Filed under Credit and Debt, Money Management
Some of you will go through your entire life being in debt. You’ll always pick up a car loan, always carry credit card debt, and you’ll always move up in house. My challenge to you is stop the debt cycle in your life. Stop the cycle of always being in debt. If you need some convincing, here are 50 reasons why you should get out of debt as quickly as possible.
I could come up with many more reasons, but 25 is good for now. Are you fed up with drowning in debt? My wife and I are fed up with it. We have paid off $10,000 in two years, and once she starts working and we have two incomes, we have a plan to pay off $50,000 in two years. We know that we can do it with diligence and motivation. We definitely have the motivation to be debt free, but we need to maintain diligence even when we’re tempted to use the money for other things. I want to hear from those of you who have recently decided you want to become debt free. I want to hear from those of you that have already become debt free and what the feeling was like when you paid off the last debt. Being debt free except the house counts as being debt free in my eyes. The ULTIMATE debt free feeling is payinig off a house, but that takes longer than a couple of years. Let’s start a revolution. Let’s our generation and generations below us to live debt free. Who’s with me?


When I owned a $200 car outright, I always worried about what would fail next, and whether the next failure would merely make the ride even worse than it already was, would cause a temporary (downtime) inconvenience, or be catastrophic. When I owned a $500 car (1989 Hyundai, first year base model) I felt like I was at or below the level of a Yugo. When I financed a 1991 Sentra, I felt like I was finally driving something resembling a decent car.
And when I paid off the Sentra, I felt less motivated at work because I hated my crappy job and retirement of the debt meant I didn’t HAVE to work as hard and as long.
Can you explain #14? How does a higher credit score lead to your dream job?
Debt really isn’t a bad thing, provided you are living within your means and can make the monthly payments without worry. It’s when debt exceeds your means that you have to worry.