Which is to say, the speaker has acknowledged that the accounting shenanigans used to get this bill passed in the teeth of statutory spending constraints are basically bullsh**. But thereâs a lot of bullsh** going around Washington just now.
So then I tried the âlittle debtsâ approach. You knowâ¦ Pay off the smallest debt, then take the payment you were making on that and put it against the next debt. Thatâs often called the debt snowball, and the idea behind it is that seeing that âwinâ early is supposed to motivate you.
To get out of debt using the ladder method, start by attacking the balance on the account that charges the highest interest rate, McClary says. While you're ramping up payments on that account, you make minimum payments on the others. When your highest-interest balance is gone, you move down a rung of the ladder and apply all your extra payments to the account with the next highest rate. You repeat the process until all your debt is eliminated.