{"id":6323,"date":"2018-01-08T19:21:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T19:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mn-bankruptcy.com\/blog\/?p=6323"},"modified":"2020-10-19T19:10:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T19:10:43","slug":"trouble-paying-those-troubling-holiday-shopping-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mn-bankruptcy.com\/blog\/trouble-paying-those-troubling-holiday-shopping-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard to Pay Those Troubling Holiday Shopping Bills?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By David J. Kelly, Minnesota Bankruptcy Attorney<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Around this past Thanksgiving CNBC published a report about how an alarming number of shoppers are still paying off debt from Christmas of 2016.&nbsp; A lot of the data in the report came from a source called NerdWallet. It seems that holiday-induced&nbsp; spending and debt is a growing problem.&nbsp; &nbsp;24% admitted to overspending for the holidays of 2016.&nbsp; Among baby boomers, 64% went in debt to pay for Christmas.&nbsp; For Gen-X it was 58% and for millennials it was 40%.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to not yet having paid off the 2016 debt, the millennials led with 24%. Gen-X came in at 16% and the boomers were at 8%.<\/p>\n<p>The advice offered by CNBC to help avoid going into debt over the holidays again is threefold:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Make a good budget and stick to it.<\/li>\n<li>Keep an eye out for sales; and<\/li>\n<li>Pay debt back.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>My reaction to this advice is to say to myself &#8220;well that&#8217;s easy for them to say.&#8221;&nbsp; Credit card debt has a way of sneaking up on a person. Not everyone is capable of paying their debt back.&nbsp; Many are overwhelmed and the bills that come in after Christmas can be the straw that breaks the camel&#8217;s back.<\/p>\n<p>If you are looking at your holiday bills and other debts in shock, perhaps it is time to consider another alternative.&nbsp; Once unsecured debt totals more than half of your annual income, it is usually impossible to get it paid back.&nbsp; For you a Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy might be a good idea.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David J. Kelly, Minnesota Bankruptcy Attorney Around this past Thanksgiving CNBC published a report about how an alarming number of shoppers are still paying off debt from Christmas of 2016.&nbsp; A lot of the data in the report came from a source called NerdWallet. 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