Closing a number of debt lines

It is high time to tell you about my latest achievement. I managed (somehow I don't quite realize how)to close my debts on a loan and credit cards. Of course, I got the money not out of air! We sold the second car (it wasn't old, happily) and now I enjoy breathing free!
Not long ago I read that after paying out your every debt, the credit score changes to the positive. So I decided to check it out. Since I'm short of money, I chose to get free credit score. Just to make sure it is worth using.
A friend of mine tried her best to convince me that all those free online services are scams and they are more dangerous than useless. But I'm a risky kind of girl! So I used the site called free-credit-reports.com and got my report just the next day. After this I'm going to pull a paid credit report and compare if the free one and the paid one are just the same.