Financial debt is one of those topics a lot of people don’t want to talk about. At the end of last year, Americans carried ...

Despite struggling with £15,000 of debt, Megan Smith Evans was still impulse buying. She’d spend £200 a month on takeaways here, £300 on days out there — the 33 year old even bought a puppy for a ...

Our debt came from normal expenses. We sold our truck, stopped eating out, and are paying off $100,000 of our $214,000 debt ...

Bernadette Joy, money coach and founder of Crush Your Money Goals, was $300,000 in debt when she decided she needed to make a change in how she was handling her finances. The six-figure debt had ...

In this series, NerdWallet interviews people who have triumphed over debt using a combination of commitment, budgeting and smart financial choices. Their stories may even inspire you to pay off your ...

With only so much money coming into your bank account each month, it can feel challenging to decide where to allocate it, especially when you have competing priorities. After all, paying down debt, ...

It's the time of year when even the best-laid budget plans get thrown aside, and credit-card balances start climbing. During the holiday season, it's common to set expectations high, which can easily ...

When Fidelity performed its 2026 Financial Resolution Study, they found that the second most common financial resolution among Americans was to pay down debt. Debt hanging over your head has a big ...

If worrying about how to pay off debt keeps you awake some nights, late-night television abounds with alleged solutions. Some ads even promise to get rid of your debt for “pennies on the dollar.” Fall ...