Dec 30 2008
Never overspend your credit limit
The convenience of Credit Cards existed in our world for over a decades. People no longer carries a bundle of cash in their wallet while shopping. This plastic card do it all. You can shop around within the power of a single card, and you get what you wanted. No matter it is a master card, Visa Card, American Express, or Discover card, they are mostly accepted by most department stores, restaurants, travel agency, and many, many more. The catch is, you have to pay back what you owed in your credit card balance. If you can pay all your balance once, the issuers won’t charge you a single penny for interest. If you couldn’t, you have to pay their minimum payment monthly, until you pay it off.
Usually these credit cards have amount limit for your spending. But it is a better advise not overspend it. I knew some girls who are regular shoppers to the mall, and department stores. They merely make over a $1,000 a month, but they spend over a thousand sometimes in a single shop. They love to buy brand name clothing, handbags. Just consider it, you can’t pay for what you couldn’t afford. If you knew better in Mathematics, you can calculate the interest they charge if you can’t pay everything at once. Think about you can use that extra amount of money to buy other useful stuff, rather than pay for the interest.
A piece of advise, never overspend on your credit card, and avoid using it frequently if you don’t think that you can pay for it.