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By Billings Farnsworth

Under the current clouds of economic recession the financial experts are recommending that everyone hold onto as much cash as possible. While incomes remain the same and spending is down people are wondering how to follow this advice and cut back on their spending habits. Many people wanting to cut down on their spending are turning to consolidation experts and consumer credit counselors to help find ways to reduce their high interest credit cards.

While paying off credit cards was once the recommended method for getting out of debt and hanging onto cash the financial experts are now recommending that consumers reduce the amount of interest that they are paying out but keeping watch over their unsecured consumer debts as credit card companies feeling the pitch of economic times are canceling credit cards of consumers after the debt has been paid off.

Because the banks are concerned about people being behind on payments or speculating that they will not be able to payoff their credit card purchases in the future they have been enforcing stricter guidelines for consumer lending. As interest rates have been recently announced to go from being fixed to variable rates for consumer credit card companies the financial experts are now expressing a desire among consumers to retain some of their debt and hold onto their good credit by having a small balance.

With the amount of cash saved through consumer credit counseling and debt consolidation services consumers are able to follow the advice of the financial experts and put away some of their hard earned cash while gaining a handle on their consumer debt.

DebtGuru (http://www.debtguru.com/) is the Internet domain for American Credit Foundation, an IRS 501 non-profit consumer credit counseling organization and offers debt consolidation help. Billings Farnsworth is a freelance writer.