I believe our credit card interest rate for debt is 18%. I guess I don't know exactly the rate simply because I always pay off my monthly bills.

Just don't want debt. So the sooner you can pay off the debt the better, because as celtic said the savings account interest rate and interest rate for fixed financial instruments (the safe instruments) rates are low.
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