If your credit cards are in a mess and you are up to the hilt on all of them, maxed out and no where to turn, then you probably have no alternative but to stop using them all together. Its not uncommon these days to have to deal with this scenario not because of greed but due to economic circumstances and various other factors. If you have been used to earning a decent wage and spending your income to pay your bills, only then to find that you are forced to cut your working hours or you have even lost your job, purely because of the poor economy, then this really is no fault of your own.