When I moved this blog to it's own domain and chose the name "Money Illusions" (plural), I felt it really was the best descriptive words for wanting to share the illusions and false perceptions often surrounding money.
At that time I didn't really stop to think about the term "money illusion" (singular) in regards to the economic principle, which refers to an attitude toward money considered in a nominal terms, rather than real terms.
Just thought I would make mention of that in case any of my readers may have found it to be confusing.
Hence the reason I decided to add this post to clarify the difference between Money Illusions, (from my perspective), and Money Illusion, as explained above!
If I haven't confused you, that's good, but if I have confused you, I can't really help that since it's not the easiest thing to explain.
That's okay, just ponder it for a while and it will make sense. 😉
Debt Reduction Planning Tips and Tools
It's easy to get caught up into the belief that we have more money to work with when we fall prey to using credit cards and other consumer debt to acquire things we either want, need, or think we need!
Have you thought about what you could possibly do to reduce debt? Why not apply some...
Ninety days same-as-cash, six months, or twelve months same-as-cash are actually a great way to make purchases with borrowed money, and it's a method that I've used personally many times.
There's nothing better than using same-as-cash as an ideal financial leverage. However, if it's not used the right way it won't help!
Otherwise, you will end up paying interest on the purchases you made and therefore defeat your purpose of making use of the same-as-cash strategy.
One word of caution in regards to the same-as-cash account strategy is the fact that you also don't want to have too many active and open accounts on your credit record since it will lower your credit score.
My word of advice is to therefore only select several stores you would most likely frequent and make use of their same-as-cash promotional offers.
For example, if you frequent several hardware or home improvement stores, choose your favorite store and only open an account with that one store, not both.
That will help you to keep the number of open accounts on your credit score down to a minimum.
If you want to reduce and eliminate your consumer debt you need to have a solid plan to strategically attack the challenge.
There are many resources available to help you reduce your debt, and you will find many good resources to get you started with this debt reduction planning tools list.
Please note that we will be adding other resources to the list, but here's some links (from off our site) to get you started:
5 Steps Toward Debt Reduction for the Do-It-Yourself Approach
The article at the link above is a great 5 step program to strategically begin your plan and how to approach debt reduction.
Anyone Can Become Debt Free
Some believe that only the rich can eliminate their debt, but Dave Ramsey's article will explain why that is only a myth.
Have you thought about what you could possibly do to reduce debt? Why not apply some...
Debt reduction planning tips and tools!
Ninety days same-as-cash, six months, or twelve months same-as-cash are actually a great way to make purchases with borrowed money, and it's a method that I've used personally many times.
There's nothing better than using same-as-cash as an ideal financial leverage. However, if it's not used the right way it won't help!
Only borrow an amount on same-as-cash accounts that you know you can pay off before the end of the promotional time period!
Otherwise, you will end up paying interest on the purchases you made and therefore defeat your purpose of making use of the same-as-cash strategy.
One word of caution in regards to the same-as-cash account strategy is the fact that you also don't want to have too many active and open accounts on your credit record since it will lower your credit score.
My word of advice is to therefore only select several stores you would most likely frequent and make use of their same-as-cash promotional offers.
For example, if you frequent several hardware or home improvement stores, choose your favorite store and only open an account with that one store, not both.
That will help you to keep the number of open accounts on your credit score down to a minimum.
If you want to reduce and eliminate your consumer debt you need to have a solid plan to strategically attack the challenge.
There are many resources available to help you reduce your debt, and you will find many good resources to get you started with this debt reduction planning tools list.
Please note that we will be adding other resources to the list, but here's some links (from off our site) to get you started:
5 Steps Toward Debt Reduction for the Do-It-Yourself Approach
The article at the link above is a great 5 step program to strategically begin your plan and how to approach debt reduction.
Anyone Can Become Debt Free
Some believe that only the rich can eliminate their debt, but Dave Ramsey's article will explain why that is only a myth.
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