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Story 05 Credit Card, Joy the "Minimum Payment" Prisoner


Keywords: Debt Snowball, Compound Interest, FICO Score, Budgeting Apps

    Joy was the queen of paying the "Minimum Due." She saw it as a low monthly subscription to her lifestyle. She never looked at the interest rate (24% APR). After three years, Joy realized she had paid $1,500 in compound interest on a $1,000 sofa, and she still owed $900.

    Joy finally downloaded a budgeting app to see where her money was going. She discovered she was throwing away $200 a month on interest. She adopted the debt snowball method, aggressively paying off her smallest balance first for motivation, then rolling that payment into the larger cards. Her FICO score began to climb as her utilization dropped. "Interest is a thief," she wrote on her vision board.

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