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Most of us know someone with a credit card and someone who smokes. If you aren’t a smoker yourself, you may look at those people in disgust, point a finger and make some rude noise; like coughing extremely loud when you walk through a cigarette smoke cloud. It is less common to find someone who [...]
It doesn’t matter how many credit cards you have or how responsible you try to be with them, chances are that along the way you’ll make a mistake. Knowing about common credit card mistakes before you make them can help you avoid pitfalls and use your credit cards more wisely. Here are three common credit [...]
Let’s be clear – when you use them properly, credit cards can be the cheapest way to borrow money. However, there are plenty of pitfalls. Make a few bad decisions or take your eye off the ball and their benefits can significantly lessen. Savvy management is the key when it comes to making a credit [...]
Last year people started getting a lot of credit card offers in the mail again. For some, I’m sure they thought that life was getting back to normal and that the economy was making its way back to where it had been before. Turns out not only is that not true, but the credit card [...]
The last time I talked to my grandma, she started telling stories about raising eight kids on a factory worker’s income. With less than $20,000 a year, my grandparents traveled across the country, helped five kids through college and bought a vacation cottage. And they did it all without a credit card. from “A History [...]
College can be an extremely exciting time for most students. It’s their first time away from home, and they’re anxious to get to their new classes and discover everything that life has in store for them. Unfortunately, one of the most common things that life has in store for them are brand-new credit cards. A [...]
Anyone who’s ever grown up with a brother or sister has probably been taught the value of sharing at a very early age. I had a younger brother growing up, so I learned from a rather early age to hate the “S” word. But while we all (well, most of us anyway) eventually learn that [...]