Fix your credit or dump debt ?

What comes first? Fixing your credit? Or dumping old debt?
Our response: Do both at the same time.
You can get into action checking your credit score right now, and at the same time, you can make the decision to stop adding to past debt and start seeking ways to eliminate your debts.
Maybe you'll need to stop using your debit card several times a day.
Maybe you'll need to end automatic subsrciptions to magazines, mail order clubs, and similar "money drains" that you've forgotten you subscribed to.
Maybe you'll need the help of a professional consumer credit counselor to help get you back on track to get better credit now.
Whatever it takes, it can be done.
And it can be done at the same time.
Your FICO credit score is weighted very heavily on debt loads you carry on credit cards and the amounts you've piled up in installment loans, auto loans, etc. You credit score can be improved when you tackle paying down your debts and when you learn to consolidate debt without adding more debt.
The articles and links we've posted here will lead you to simple steps to reduce debt, fix credit, and get a better credit score.