This may be a personal thing, but debit cards can make it difficult to keep track of how much money you have to spend<\/i>. Because you make purchases without getting a running total of how much is left in your account, you must keep track in some way, whether it’s using a checkbook-type ledger or just checking your balance online often. In short, a debit card requires discipline. (In that way, debit cards and credit cards are definitely the same.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nThank you for reading. Now I’ll go back to stealing candy from babies.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When people ask me what I do and I tell them I run a credit card comparison site, they generally look away, as if I’ve just said I’m a pimp. Or a crack dealer. Or a crack-dealing pimp. When I tell them credit cards aren’t all bad, they’re skeptical. You probably are, too. I might not be able to change your mind, but if one less person in the world thinks I’d give cigarettes to an asthmatic, this post will have been worth it.<\/p>\n
Used properly, credit cards can offer you some real benefits. (Yes, used poorly they can ruin your life, but that’s been established elsewhere. I’m here to give you a few positives.)<\/p>\n
Before his trip abroad, J.D. mentioned getting his first credit card in a long time<\/a>. He talked about the dangers of doing so, but he also exhibited what I’d consider the mindset of a responsible credit card user. This mindset can be summed up in a single sentence, which you should make your credit card mantra:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3353,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[483],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}