Not exact matches
The
debt avalanche is just like the
snowball debt method, except it focuses on paying off the
debt with the highest interest rate first, but like the
snowball debt method you continue to pay the minimum for the
rest of your loans.
Out
of fear we might give up altogether on paying off our
debt, we switched to the
snowball, focusing on only one
debt at a time (the smallest), and making minimums on the
rest.
There was one
debt that I was annoyed with and tired
of paying so all my effort went to paying off that
debt first and then I
debt snowballed the
rest.
John suggested I use the
snowball method: Get rid
of the smallest
debt first by paying extra, while making the minimum payment on the
rest.