Between my partner and I (not married, but have cards that are joint), we have 29 credit cards of about $39,000, and a siding and window loan on the house we own. Fourteen of the CC are over 50% limit (some signicantly) and our interest rates are going up and up. To make it worse, our mortgage is an ARM that balloons in 2009. I have most of the debt now, because my other half has a bankruptcy that comes off in spring of 2009. I am lost of what to do, but I figure the first thing is to get the most cards under 50% to increase our credit score. Am I thinking wrong?