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The Credit Card Vault

Hey guys! If you’re looking for all my sexy posts on credit cards from over the years, you can find them all below. If you’re in the search for awesome credit cards to pick up, then I can also help you out ;) Check out my list of the best credit card offers out there! I’ve hand-selected some of the greatest cash-back, rewards, balance transfer, and even some pretty dope college student credit cards from around town. Should be able to find a nice gem in there for ya…

(And if you happen to be a more *visual* person, then check out those same offers (plus more) on my credit card montage page! Haha… whatever works…)

Then be sure to come back and read my post on budgeting with credit cards So you don’t get in trouble!! If you don’t play nicely with them, you can end up in a much bigger world of hurt :( So STAY AWAY completely if you don’t trust yourself well enough yet – that’s just fine. Maybe after reading some posts over the weeks you’ll be in a lot better mindset ;)

Nice Try, Credit Card Scammers!

May 15, 2012
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Whelp, it looks like I’m officially a victim of credit card theft.  Some asshat tried stealing my c/c number to make all kinds of purchases online, but was promptly REJECTED cuz they were going up against our beloved USAA (BAM!).  So bye bye went their $300 purchase failed attempt in Green Bay, Wisconsin, as well [...]

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Awesome FREE Place to Check Your Credit Score – Can You Beat Me? ;)

May 8, 2012
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I don’t know why I’m so late to the parties these days, but color me a new fan of Credit Sesame – a place where you can get your credit score for free and then have ‘em email you when it changes (so you can tell ASAP if something wonky is happening!). I usually don’t [...]

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If You’re Playing the Balance Transfer Game…

April 18, 2012

If any of you are playing the credit card “Balance Transfer Game” right now (where you move credit card balances to new cards at 0% to save on interest and pay them down faster), here’s a couple of good cards that may help you. Whatever you do though, be sure to read ALLLL the fine [...]

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What’s Your Favorite (or Best) Credit Card?

March 30, 2012
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Hey guys! So not sure if you’ve been noticing around here or not, but I’ve been slowly adding up new pages to the site that I think can really help out over time (like my best products tab), as well as doing some much needed Spring cleaning too (like clearing out old stuff in my [...]

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Random Financial Nuggets…

February 24, 2012
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I wore my “I’m Bringing Budgets Back” T-shirt out in the real world for the first time ever, and 2 whole people smiled at me when they saw it :) If you can convince me that you’ll wear one too, I’ll see if Brad can make us some more! [UPDATE: Now for sale!!] I have [...]

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Suze Orman vs. Personal Finance Bloggers (AKA “Idiots”)

January 15, 2012

I’ll let you take a guess who won ;) Read this: (much better than me trying to recap – plus, lots of pretty Twitter pictures!) Suze Orman’s “Approved Card” Gets Denied; Thinks PF Bloggers Are Idiots @ 20 and Engaged Way to go guys!  F’ing love y’all.  

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The 7 Most Hated Fees & Price Bumps

December 5, 2011
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I was dozing off to Money magazine last night (cuz it was 3 a.m., not cuz it was boring! haha…) and one of the blurbs was on the their readers’ most hated fees and price bumps – which of course snapped me right back up ;)  Who doesn’t love to complain with their fellow man [...]

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I’m Rich Cuz I Have a Lot of Credit Cards?

November 15, 2011
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Hahahhahaa…. that’s what I was just told at Auto Zone today!  I went in to pick up some WD-40 (the ol’ Caddy is getting a little squeaky in it’s old age) and the cashier told me “it must be nice” when I whipped out my money clip to pay. “Huh?  What must be nice?” I [...]

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Why Credit Cards Are Like One Night Stands

November 8, 2011
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(Guest Post by Martin of Studenomics) Have you ever woken up feeling like complete $hit after a shopping spree? You realize that you spent so much money that you simply didn’t have. You have a room full of crap with no way of figuring out how you’re going to pay for all of this stuff. [...]

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Credit Cards and College Kids… *ahem*

November 3, 2011
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For whatever reason I’ve been doing a LOT of interviews/case studies/spilling of my ideas and thoughts to others, and every time I keep thinking – “Man!  This should be going on MY site too!” Haha… so, just like we did w/ the “how I became a full-time blogger” post, I figured I’d release my latest [...]

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