Which is to say, the speaker has acknowledged that the accounting shenanigans used to get this bill passed in the teeth of statutory spending constraints are basically bullsh**. But thereâs a lot of bullsh** going around Washington just now.
So then I tried the âlittle debtsâ approach. You knowâ¦ Pay off the smallest debt, then take the payment you were making on that and put it against the next debt. Thatâs often called the debt snowball, and the idea behind it is that seeing that âwinâ early is supposed to motivate you.
The debt avalanche is  the practice of ranking debts by interest rate and paying each off by starting with the highest-interest debt first. This approach may help you save the most money overall, and is often recommended by financial advisers as the best way to pay off debt. The plus is, of course, paying less interest, says Beverly Harzog, a credit and consumer expert and author of The Debt Escape Plan.