Seeing so many ads on social media offering sales, especially clearance after the holidays can be so tempting.
FOX23 spoke to the Better Business Bureau (BBB) about not being influenced or ‘deinfluencing’ your life to meet your financial goals in 2025.
Whether its Instagram, X or Facebook, you likely see all kinds of ads hoping you’ll spend as you scroll.
But it’s a new year and it’s time for a new approach to your finances.
“We want to be careful when we are getting influenced on different things and if we want to ‘deinfluence’ our life, we might start with our debt. You may want to pay off your lowest amount credit card first or you may want to pay off the high balance first,” said Amie Mitchell, CEO of BBB of Eastern Oklahoma.
Mitchell is talking about the snowball method and the ladder method to paying off debt.
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