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Debt Elimination 2  by: Roy Thomsitt The First Step To Debt Elimination Regardless of your personal and financial circumstances, your education and your background, the chances are the first step you need to take in debt elimination has to take place in your mind. The Western mindset, especially in the US and UK, is firmly fixed on consumer debt. It is the way you have been reared in a debt ridden society. To be realistic, let us assume that total debt elimination is not practical, nor necessarily desirable, from a financial point of view. The one major exception is in buying a house. When you buy a house, very few people are likely to be in a position to do so with cash. Unless they have inheritance, are very wealthy, are moving down the house market, or moving from an expensive to a cheap area, people buying a house will require a mortgage. There can be considerable financial gains in the long run from taking on mortgage debt. Firstly, you have to live somewhere, so living in your own home is more desirable than renting for the rest of your life. Secondly, if you are lucky the capital growth on the house over the years will increase your underlying wealth, in a way that cannot happen with rented accommodation, which has the opposite affect. So, let us assume, for the purpose of this article, that by debt elimination we mean the elimination of all your consumer debt, except your home mortgage. You may well find that, if you can change your mindset to be against borrowing to feed your consumer desires, that mortgage will be paid off much sooner than your average contemporaries. When you reach that stage, then there is every possibility that your debt elimination will become total, and your mindset will be so changed that there is never a need to take on any new debt. Changing The Mindset To Support Debt Elimination You are unlikely to find it easy to alter your attitude towards consumer debt. After all, it is the way you have probably been brought up, surrounded by easy credit. However, changing that mindset is both possible and financially desirable About The Author Roy Thomsitt is the owner and part author of http://www.eliminate-credit-card-debt-now.com roy@change-direction.com This article was posted on August 05, 2005 Read More Articles from the "Business and Finance" Category: Commercial Business Loans—Envision your Financial Reasons by Tim Kelly Business Continuity and Payment Systems by Stanley Epstein Greed - The Ugly Duckling of Investing by Brandne Moskwa Business Loan Uses by John Williams A Home Based Business Merchant Account Awaits You by Shane Penrod Various Types of Credit Cards - Part 2 by Keith Baxter Home Loan Options For Those With Bad Credit by Alan Lim The Big Picture: 5 Questions that Can Boost your Business by Bobette Kyle Some Steps Towards Credit Repair by Brandon C. Hall Unsecured Tenant Loans: Catered For You Demands by Carmen Cortez << Back to "Business And Finance" Index

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