Archives for Credit Cards - Page 6
Do You Know Your FICO?
Do you know what your FICO score is? If you don't you're missing knowledge around one of the key elements of how the credit agencies (and others) measure your financial…
How to Score Big on Credit
So what if my score is 600, 700 or 800, right? As long as you NEVER buy anything on credit, get loans or car insurance; then it probably won't worry…
Baby Steps to a Better Credit Score
Starting Today and sporadically through the next few weeks, I will chronicle the steps I take as I go through my credit report, disputing items and removing others. You are…
Borrowing from Prosper.com
I wrote last month about my initial experience with , getting started as a borrower on the site. This month starts my monthly payback on the amount I borrowed. The…
What will an Extra $5 Get you?
I found this wonderful little site that allows me to find out how much impact an extra $10-$100 or more would have on any bill of mine. The site to…
Gaining Understanding on Prosper.com
Have you heard of I had a while ago and was curious about it. It takes the idea of loaning/borrowing money to a whole new level, and I'm still learning…
Break Free from Excuses
It's time to break free. Time to free yourself from the excuses you think up for reasons you buy yourself into debt. Time to free yourself from justifing reasons you…
Jules: Make Money Selling Eggs
"Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver." -- Ambrose Bierce I'm reading the book call Julie and Julia: 365 days, 524 recipes and 1…
Credit Card Alternatives
If you don't have the option to use a credit card or you want to stop using them, you have two other options that are similar and great for learning…
Cruisin’ Lesbians: Olivia Wears Plastic
"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year." -- John Foster Dulles In…