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How to Punish Your Credit Card Bank
Has your credit-card bank ever made you angry? I mean really infuriated to the point where you just want a little revenge for how you were treated?
 
Excerpt from Talk Your Way Out of Credit Card Debt 
Everyone wants to get out of debt, but few are willing to do the work it takes to make this goal a reality. As it turns out, looking into all your credit options is going to be one of the best paying jobs you'll ever have. That's because the money you save more than compensates you for...
 
Bad Customer Service
July 14th, 2002 I got a call yesterday at 8:AM.
I don't like getting calls at 8:AM at work or at home. Obviously, there's nothing I can do about the work calls but the home calls, I'd like to think that this is an open invitation to be rude...

 
Think Before
This afternoon, I spent an unexpected 4 hours at the car service dealer. My vehicle had been overheating for the past few days so I thought I'd take it in for a service check. Not having any other form of transportation at the moment, I decided to "hang out" in a comfortable chair on the sales floor.  Here's just a small sample of what I witnessed...
 
My family vacation for $32 per person per day! 
That's right, $32 per person per day is what it worked out to cost for our family's April 2002 vacation. This article covers the details of all costs related to this vacation, along with photos! I think that's great price but please let me know if you think it's a thrifty, quality, vacation.
 
Handling Frustration
"I'm sooo frustrated!" These words--or something perhaps even more colorful---are things we've all said at one time or another. Several times over the past few days, I said them myself--at least in my head.
 
Chris Peruzzi vs. the Debt Counselors
I've got SUCH a headache.
If you ever want to see me lose my temper really fast, talk to me about my debt counseling company. I have never had to deal with such a band of galactic level screw-ups in my life. In a roundabout way, I would guess that they are doing the job they are supposed to be doing. They are curing me of any kind of desire to ever be in debt again.
 
Clean Out the Yuck in Your Life!
When we lie--when we operate outside our value systems, even when we're the only one who knows we did--we have to bury that feeling inside ourselves. I call it "Yuck." Any negative secret feeling has to be stuffed. We deny it to ourselves because to face it would illuminate our lack of integrity. We either have to deal with it or stuff it. And most of us stuff it.
 
Biweekly Mortgages: A Reader's Personal Story
The following is a series of e-mails written back-and-forth between Scott Bilker and Kevin, a DebtSmart Reader, about Kevin's experience with a nightmare of a mortgage!
 
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