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Use these powerful strategies to help you eradicate debt and beef up savings.

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Money management 101

Developing money management skills is crucial for attaining financial success, no matter how much or little you make.

Getting in the debt pit is easy; climbing out, not quite so. These strategies help lessen the pain.

Tackling debt as a family

It's a good idea to get the children involved in the family's objective to eradicate debt.

These misdeeds will almost certainly land you in a contemporary place of torment reminiscent of Dante's Inferno.

Try not to get caught in a shark feeding frenzy as you look for an escape to safety.

Readers' success stories

Bankrate readers share their success stories about how they were able to stop living on the edge.

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