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The floor under Alice Stephens’s life collapsed on Christmas Eve, 2010, when her husband of 34 years, Phillip, died of a sudden heart attack. Now a widow, she was deeply…
One of the many difficulties in dealing with debt is getting past the feeling there is no way out. “Every morning I woke up, I had this dreadful feeling that…
Ron Hynson carried a secret for years. It kept him up at night and soured his happy personality, but he wouldn’t share it with anyone. Finally, it got to be…
Joe Forte celebrates the fact he eliminated $65,900 worth of credit card debt and wonders if his struggle to achieve fiscal sanity will wake up anyone in similar circumstances. “I…
Jackie Bryan could have paid off the last of her family’s $21,000 credit card debt six months ago, but she and her husband Jason decided to stick it out to…
You have $30,000 in credit card debt and wonder how you got there. More importantly, you wonder how you’ll ever pay it off. As 2021 drew to a close, nearly…
In early 2013, when they faced what seemed like hopelessly grim credit card debt, Joe and Stephanie Dorsch made a decision. “We looked at each other and said we didn’t…
At her worst moments, Kim Smith was suffocating from the chokehold $35,000 worth of credit card debt had on her household. Sometimes, she broke out a spiral notebook, which documented…
For Robina Way, life has taken an unimaginable turn. She’s driving a beautiful new car. She’s working steady. She has health insurance. She’s debt free. And that’s where she plans…
Rita Robyn is 67 now and still remembers her first credit card. “Got it from Macy’s when I was 22,” she said. “I could buy anything in the store I…