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.
Credit card debt is often the best target to get fast results. Paying down credit card debt is typically rewarded more because you are paying down riskier (unsecured) debt and lowering your credit utilization. Pay a whole credit card off or at least get it under 10% and you will really see some impact.