Tips on avoiding a Christmas credit card meltdown

It's coming up to holiday time and you know what that means; time to start worrying about buying presents and checking to see how high your credit limit has grown in the last eleven months. After all, you don't want to come across as Scrooge, you don't want your significant other to be disappointed, and you couldn't bear to have your children's faces not light up with joy when they rip open their presents. Even if you just can't afford it.

Fortunately, there are some ways you can achieve a balance with your financial means and your well-intentioned desire to shower the people you love with presents:

    Avoiding Christmas Credit Card Debt Nightmares

It's not too late, there are still over 30 shopping days during which time you can really think about what you need to buy rather than just snatch up everything in sight...