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January 23, 2023

How to tackle holiday debt in January

  • The bill from holiday spending and other end-of-year costs is coming due.
    • By KIMBERLY PALMER
    NerdWallet

    After years of being in debt, Rachel Kramer Bussel came to a realization: “If I don't become proactive about it, I will be in debt for the rest of my life.” For Bussel, a freelance writer near Atlantic City, New Jersey, that meant scaling back spending and putting any available money toward the debt principal.

    “Starting to see it go in the right direction helped me amp it up,” she says. “I felt like, maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel.” Bussel, whose debt came from credit cards, student loans and back taxes, finally paid off all of her debt, which at one point exceeded $100,000, in 2020.


     
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