Leo Tolstoy famously wrote in "Anna Karenina," a novel that culminates in an equally famous suicide, that "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

When families are unhappy because of their finances, however, they've typically chosen one of a relatively small number of paths to get there.

That became abundantly clear Sept. 12 when MSN Money invited readers to post their debt and credit questions to the Your Money message board as part of "Get Out of Debt Day." Although the posts ranged all over the financial map, those in the most serious trouble often committed one or more of the following acts of financial suicide:

Carrying credit card debt
Carrying credit card balances is not the norm in America, as I wrote in "The truth about credit card debt." More than half of U.S. households have no credit card debt, and only 7.2% carried balances of $10,000 or more, according to the latest Federal Reserve survey.

Yet four- and five-figure......

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Title: 7 Roads To Financial Ruin
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