Ease On Household Finances With Debt Consolidation

Raising a family isn't easy. It isn't cheap either. When you decide to have kids, each kid is consuming money more than your car does. You feed them, pay for their clothes, toys, doctors, medicine, insurance premiums and so on. The list goes on and on.
Then when kids are younger, they spend more that the adults too. Not that I am enumerating only the financial side of family and parenting…sure raising kids and having your own family has its rewards that money can never buy. But we can't deny the fact that in everything a family (and kids!) does, money is involved.
Then of course, you pay for your car's amortization, then there's your mortgage. Not to mention your credit cards! Before you know it, your monthly salary goes to all the debt payments. One solution there is (so you can breathe a little bit better) is debt consolidation. That way you only pay one bill monthly with lower interest rate.
Have you ever tried debt consolidation? How did it help you and your family?