I have been working on paying off all the old debt that my husband and I have. We only have a few more small payments and then we will only have student loans and car payments- both current on our credit reports. I know the charged off items will be there for a while- but at least they will be reported as paid in full, or settled in full- whatever the deal was. My question now is that we need to start building positive credit, and I was hoping someone could give us some advice on how to go about doing that. I thought a secured credit card would help- because they report to all 3 bureaus.