It won't be easy and it won't be enjoyable. But if you get on a budget and stay there, you've the basic basis for a concrete family budget and you can move ahead from there. You may go on to use some other methods to get your credit card debt under control such as credit card consolidation or balance transfers. Although do not do a thing till you find that secret weapon and make it begin functioning for you; that secret weapon can be described as a family budget.