{"id":438,"date":"2020-11-27T02:58:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T20:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abundanciamindset.com\/?p=438"},"modified":"2020-11-27T02:58:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T20:58:59","slug":"increase-your-monthly-credit-card-loan-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abundanciamindset.com\/es\/increase-your-monthly-credit-card-loan-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Increase your monthly credit card &#038; loan payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At this point you have set up an automated system which takes care of your monthly expenses in addition to paying your credit card payments on time. This will ensure that you never miss a payment and incur any kind of late  fees, but most importantly it ensures that you don&#8217;t miss a payment to your credit card\/loan and impact your credit score. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look back at the last article: <a href=\"https:\/\/abundanciamindset.com\/es\/2020\/11\/26\/automate-your-payments\/\"><em>Automate your payments<\/em><\/a> to see the amount of income left that you have each month and ask yourself, can I increase my monthly payment? Are you paying $60 on your $3,000 credit card debt each month because it\u2019s the minimum payment? Do you realize how much time it\u2019s going to take you to pay off the debt as a whole? And most importantly how much interest you\u2019ll be paying?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s run a quick comparison on 2 ways to tackle this debt.  One will be paying the monthly minimum in this case ($60), vs. increasing the monthly payment to ($160). Here&#8217;s how they compare:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.abundanciamindset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/3000_Loan-1024x1024.png?resize=1024%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-440 img-fluid\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abundanciamindset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/3000_Loan.png?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abundanciamindset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/3000_Loan.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abundanciamindset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/3000_Loan.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abundanciamindset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/3000_Loan.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abundanciamindset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/3000_Loan.png?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>When paying $60 a month on a $3,000 loan at 18%, It will take you approximately\u00a0<strong>97 payments<\/strong>\u00a0and close to\u00a0<strong>8<\/strong>\u00a0years to pay off your debt and you\u2019ve thrown away\u00a0<strong>$2,587\u00a0<\/strong>in interest (almost as much as your original loan!). <\/li><li>When paying an additional $100 or ($160) a month on a $3,000 loan at 18%, it will decrease to <strong>23 payments\u00a0<\/strong>and close to\u00a02 years\u00a0to pay off your debt, and you\u2019ve paid only\u00a0$549\u00a0(<em>which is still quite a bit of money to throw away<\/em>), but it\u2019s better than $2,587.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Hopefully now you understand why we should get aggressive at paying off our debts. It will allow us to get to an investment state which is where we want to get to. I\u2019d suggest you visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calcxml.com\/calculators\/pay-off-loan\">this site<\/a> and enter your current loan or credit card debt to calculate the amount of time it\u2019ll take you to pay it off:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you learned something new from this blog series or at least it opened your eyes to your own finances. The point of this is for you to take a look at your own finances and see where you might be wasting your hard-earned money and try to change that aspect of your life. There are plenty of ways to slip off such as late payment fees or overdraft fees that we can easily address; however, this is easier said than done. I hope these last few blog posts have sparked an interest for you to take action now rather than later and address your personal finance challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this point you have set up an automated system which takes care of your monthly expenses in addition to paying your credit card payments on time. This will ensure that you never miss a payment and incur any kind of late fees, but most importantly it ensures that you don&#8217;t miss a payment to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abundanciamindset.com\/es\/increase-your-monthly-credit-card-loan-payments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Increase your monthly credit card &#038; loan payments&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-finance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abundanciamindset.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abundanciamindset.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abundanciamindset.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abundanciamindset.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abundanciamindset.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abundanciamindset.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abundanciamindset.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abundanciamindset.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abundanciamindset.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}