This is pretty much the quintessence of how many people get stuck in debt (it was certainly true for us): “…we were spending more than we made because we thought we would make more money later to pay it off.”
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By consumerist.com July 6, 2007
Tagged With: debt, credit cards, money, bills, personal finance, budgets
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