An old lady, who receives pension a little over 200 dollars per week, is paying about 200 dollars a month for credit card dues. A big chunk of the installment payment is for the interest alone. How horrible is that? What’s an old lady to do with a portion of her meager pension going to these huge credit card companies?

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Although we feel the effect on the prices of oils, commodities and services, the impact is still softened as we are without major loans to take care of. In the future, when we are ready to buy our own home, we will be very careful with the whole process starting from getting mortgage quotes. We will make sure that we will not be buried paying very high interests that will eat up chunks of our finances.

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There is a company called Comparecards.com that helps to check for suitable credit cards depending on the financial standing and spending needs of a person. There are a lot of different types out there but what I would look out for is a low interest credit card.

Ideally though, the safest of all to use are pre-paid debit cards. Having to set a spending limit is easier than working to pay for credit interests alone.

This is where options for student loans are available for students not having enough financial backing to reach their dreams to complete tertiary education. These college loans, offered by many schools, let the students study and pay later. If I’m not wrong, the loans extend to providing stipends or allowance other than the tuition.

There are so many people I know who have taken up private student loans. Most of them did for graduate school. At least, my kid will always have this as an option for a worse case scenario.

Imagine not going through the hassles of queuing to speak to loan consultants and filling-up lots of forms? When applying for car loans, for example, a quote will be prepared for the applicant as soon as he/she lodges his application online. That way, there is no time wasted. Access to the car of your dreams will just be a few clicks away.

Then there are companies offering Personal Loans for various credit situations. In this case, it’s a matter of determining the urgency to get a loan and recognizing the ability to pay. If the latter is a potential issue, then taking up a Payday Advances will only make the financial standing worse.

For sure, loan companies have rules and standards in place to ensure that their business offers a win-win situation.

However, knowing that there is a fallback in the form of loans can also be a negative thing. Instead of taking measures to manage the finances better, there is that temptation to simply pick up a loan and wait for the next payday to cover for it.

There are companies out there, which limit the borrower to take up loans for emergency cases only. I think this is a good idea to inject some form of discipline to the borrower. I’m sure that many companies out there do not care about the purpose of the loan. What’s important to them is that they charge interest and there are collaterals they can get a hold from the borrower later on.

An extreme case of this is what they call loan sharks in Singapore. These are lenders who extend money usually to gamblers. Once the gambler is neck-deep in debt, these loan sharks will do anything even as far as vandalizing your own home just to threaten the borrower to pay. But then again, this is an extreme case.

Usually, at the tail end of our conversation, both of us will let out a sigh and somehow feel the fears of “letting go” of our child. She would have learned to do certain things on her own. She should be driving her own car and owning one if not two college student credit cards that will be her backup for emergency expenses.

It will be a happy and sad time for us, as a family I’m sure. Planning for the financial aspect of sending our child to school is just one side of the coin, I should say. But dealing with the major changes, the separation, the typical worries, the adjustments, will all be part of yet another major phase in a family’s life.

It’s as if it’s not enough that many of them are working hard to survive day to day along with paying-off existing loans or already working on credit repair schemes. Although the employment rate remains stable, it is still no guarantee that these people will soon be out of credit.

No one knows how long this economic downturn will be. Companies offering credit repair services should be very busy these days assisting more people ease out of the financial crunch through bad credit repair programs.

I think all of us should be more proactive when it comes to managing our finances. We may have different priorities in life and different standards of living, but the bottom line is, we should live according to our means. It is very tempting to brush aside the future and enjoy what we have now but with our family in mind, the fear of another recession coming wakes us up to reality.