I want to once again thank those of you who arrived here via this Money Magazine article about families who are living without credit cards. If this is your first visit to my site, welcome. I hope you will take a few minutes to read a bit more about me and about how and why I live without credit cards. …
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Credit Card Companies Want Your Money – A Guest Post From Five Cent Nickel
This is a guest post from nickel, who writes about personal finance over at FiveCentNickel. And since that, combined with his four kids, don’t keep him sufficiently busy, he has recently launched yet another site, this time focused more narrowly on credit cards. Unlike me, Nickel uses credit cards. We’ve had several back-and-forth discussions about the subject. If you’ve ever…
Stop Asking Me If I Want To Apply For Your Silly Credit Card
My wife and I went to town today to do a little Christmas shopping. We went to four different stores, and at three of them, I was offered, “a discount for signing up for our store credit card.” Each time, I politely shook my head and said, “No thank you.” What I really wanted to do was shout, at the…