Girl, Get Your Credit Straight! A Sister's Guide to Ditching Your Debt, Mending Your Credit, and Building a Strong Financial Future.Girl, Get Your Credit Straight! A Sister's Guide to Ditching ditching, n See ditch. Your Debt, Mending Your Credit, and Building a Strong Financial Future by Glinda Bridgforth Broadway Books, January 2007 $19.95, ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0-767-92248-4 Shopping. Debt. Bad credit. Shopping. Debt. Bad credit. It's an "ugly, vicious cycle Noun 1. vicious cycle - one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first vicious circle positive feedback, regeneration - feedback in phase with (augmenting) the input " that's got to stop. In this book, Bridgforth gives black women a helping hand to do just that. Otherwise, sisters may find themselves in a 12-step credit program and sharing stories like Bridgforth and plenty others have to tell. Deena, a sharp, young sister, who wanted a career in banking, was not offered a position for a job with a bank that she thought she was going to get (The woman with whom she interviewed was clearly impressed with her), because of her credit history. Sydney's been through $90,000 in debt consolidation loans and a $20,000 equity line of credit on top of her $297,000 first mortgage on a house that had a $100,000 mortgage when she inherited inherited received by inheritance. inherited achondroplastic dwarfism see achondroplastic dwarfism. inherited combined immunodeficiency see combined immune deficiency syndrome (disease). it. She's spent her $90,000 annual income and $217,000 worth of her home's equity. Buying things was a lot simpler for Sydney than identifying her financial demons Demons See also devil; evil; ghosts; hell; spirits and spiritualism. ademonist one who denies the existence of the devil or demons. bogyism, bogeyism recognition of the existence of demons and goblins. and ridding them. In Get Your Credit Straight!, which follows Bridgforth's Girl, Get Your Money Straight! and Girl, Make Your Money Grow!, Bridgforth shares sample letters of dispute to credit bureaus, statements to have attached to credit scores, and exercises to help sisters discover and change behaviors and attitudes about credit and money. Bridgforth connects behaviors that effect credit to culture, fear, family, self-image, discrimination and slavery. Paying off credit card balances means less money to save and invest for retirement, dreams, buying a home, emergency funds and family and class reunions “School reunion” redirects here. For the Doctor Who episode, see School Reunion (Doctor Who). A class reunion is a meeting of former classmates, typically organized at or near their former school by one of the class on or around an anniversary of their graduation. . Credit history affects home- and car-loan rates, employment and insurance, and it can determine how we sleep and how healthy we are. Sisters, let's get our credit straight! --Reviewed by Angeli R. Rasbury Angeli R. Rasbury, a writer, lawyer and photographer in Brooklyn, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , writes about girls, women and culture. She is working on a book about investing in stocks. |
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