Talk about penny wise and pound foolish. I just wiped out most of my gains from the past 10 months of 0% balance transfer abritrage! In the process of updating my excel spreadsheets for May I was checking my email and noticed that I had received an email from Bank of America letting me know [...]
I never thought I would carry over $45,000 in credit card debt. That amount represents about a years worth of living expenses for our household. Even when I was at my personal finance low 2 years ago with over $14,000 in hard earned credit card debt, I never thought I would let my debt get [...]
It’s OK, I THINK I know what I am doing this time. I didn’t buy a new car. I didn’t go on a fancy vacation. I simply decided it was time to play the credit card arbitrage game. After spending the past 2+ years aggressively paying down my credit card debt I have managed to [...]
I just received a replacement credit card in the mail for one of my long standing credit cards. When I called the number listed to activate my card I was asked to call from my home phone or wait to speak to an “account manager”. The reason for this is that my “home phone” is [...]
Ah the joys of married life. Its the opportunity to build a life together with someone very special. However before this journey begins you get to purge all duplicate and extraneous belongings. The process can be very satisfying, sort of like a new semester in school or the start of a new year.
Credit Cards are the Ginsu knives of personal finance. They have evolved from basic debt instruments available to a select few to an essential tool of modern life that can be used for almost anything. With an increased awareness of the costs of my debt, I found this to be an interesting article suggesting a [...]
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