Archive for the 'Credit Cards' Category

Credit Card Fraud

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

I just had my second credit card shut down for fraud. This happened last summer when Citi Cards initiated the process by informing me that my account had been compromised. They did not give me any more information than that, but it was very little trouble for me since they waited for me to receive [...]

Credit Card Advertising on Airline Napkins?

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Is Northwest Airlines really so desperate for revenue that it needs to advertise a credit card on its in-flight napkins?
I don’t know about you, but this would make me more reluctant to fly with them in the future even if the flight was perfect (which it wasn’t). Of course, if their flights are the cheapest, [...]

Cash vs. Plastic

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Photo by DCE licensed under Creative Commons
I’ve seen many personal finance sites recommend that when trying to keep a budget, you should only spend money in cash rather than using a credit or debit card. This, the common wisdom says, will help you be more aware of the amount of money that you’re spending and [...]

Never Find a *Debt* Like This

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

In Debt and I go back so far… oh, whatever. Cut the corny lyrics, In Debt and I just realized that we’re in debt. Okay, so we knew it before, but we finally got around to calculating the exact amount of our credit card debt. We have a total of ten** credit cards and $11,400 [...]