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Posted in Credit cards, Finance on Jan 15th, 2008
This is one of those rare cases where a TV commercial brought me straight to the product’s website. Capital One had an on yesterday where a mad scientist was trying to “bring life” to his new creation (á la Frankenstein) but instead of a monster he was creating the perfect credit card.
I know, so tired, […]
Posted in Budgeting, Credit cards on Jan 9th, 2008
When I first started shopping around for a credit card with a good reward program, I was a little confused. There is a lot of fine print to wade through and they all have more footnotes than Infinite Jest. Since my budgeting system involves putting all my purchases on my credit card, it’s worth it […]
Posted in Budgeting, Credit cards, Happiness on Nov 26th, 2007
I was up at 3:30am.
I threw elbows to get through the crowds.
I stood in a line that snaked through an entire Target for 45 minutes to check out.
I saw a woman pay with a credit card that she hadn’t even activated yet and asked the cashier to “put $100 on this one and $100 on […]
Posted in Budgeting, Credit cards, Finance on Nov 19th, 2007
I was reading this post over on The Tao of Making Money and most of the comments are all about how evil credit cards are because they allow people to get into crazy amounts of debt and then the credit-card companies hit us with crazy fines and interest rates, essentially getting rich off our misery.
Except, […]
Posted in Budgeting, Credit cards on Oct 20th, 2007
I’m always curious how different people settle on different ways to budget because if you don’t find the one that’s right for you, you won’t stick with it for very long.
I use my credit card for absolutely everything, redeem the points for cash, and pay the whole thing off every month. I keep track of […]
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