You just skipped back into the house after visiting one of the more exciting locations on your residence, the mailbox, with what seems to be an amazing offer from your very own trusted financial institution thinking you just scored!

After all, how could you lose with an offer to cash a check for [...]

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Big Secrets

On November 10, 2010 By

People don’t talk about money as often as they probably need to.

With only 3 things that one can do with money (Give/Spend/Save), it would seem to me that helping each other reach this goal would elevate our communities to be able to do amazing things.  In order to [...]

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…but you wouldn’t know it would you?  Most of your friends and family will contest any attempt to show them that not having a credit card is a good thing.  They’ll argue with you about not being able to rent a car, or purchase a hotel room, or book [...]

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The most unexpected event occurred this past year in the midst of the “financial meltdown” as they continually call it.  After 10 years living under the illusion that I had a firm grip on my credit card behaviors and that I was “laughing all the way to the bank” with my Continue Reading

Credit card companies come up with any and every desperate attempt to keep you as a “customer.” They do not treat you like a customer, however, and you’re the one who pays their bills with outrageous interest rates and risk of fees that your mother would be ashamed of.

The [...]

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