The more you can squeeze out of your budget to
increase your debt snowball, the faster you'll reach your goals.
Not exact matches
My focus has been
increasing my savings rate and when I finally became
debt - free, that
snowball money automatically switched from
debt to wealth and is now building my emergency fund.
If you have a fixed amount of money to pay toward
debts, we call these various methods «
snowball» methods because as your minimum payments decrease, your extra payments
increase.
Since starting the
debt snowball in 2014, I've
increased my income by 59 % and Josh has
increased his by 51 %.
You can also see how the
snowball increases as you pay off your
debts.
Our
increased salaries accelerated our
debt snowball by a month and a half.
Your
snowball can
increase as you pay off
debts and roll the previously required minimum payment into your
snowball.
Unfortunately, failure to pay tax
debts has a
snowball effect with
increasing interest and penalties.