The most important is to pay your bills on time. Otherwise your interest rate would sky-scrape! Besides it is of vital importance to pay not only the minimum payment but as much as you can. If you can’t you should cut your spending. Don’t buy things that you can’t afford. Make it as a rule, it really works!
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2. have excellent credit
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3. Rebuild my damaged credit
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4. take better care of my finances/credit
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5. Clear my credit card debt
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“An average American has 8 credit cards, with an average debt of $9,400! Not paying credit cards debts on time is a risky affair. As we all know that banks and financial authorities providing credit cards to you are very strict regarding their repayments. The penalties or interest rates on these cards are very high.
there are certain tips which could help you out:
1. Control your credit card spending. Always keep your income in mind while spending. 2. Watch your balance. Instead of looking at your credit card limit, look at your monthly earnings. Always make sure your credit card balance doesn’t grow beyond what you can afford for the month.
3. Check your credit card statements regularly. Perhaps keep all your purchase receipts. Costly errors can be fixed quickly if you have the receipts.
4. You can call to your credit company and negotiate to lower interest rate. Then transfer your credit card balance to a card with lower interest. “
I think, there must be some training provided to teach as how to manage credit cards.People with good credit and bad credit alike, should know how to make better use of the credit card deals they make.We have always been financially easy due to the best credit card deals from Visa and MasterCard but my son happened to get himself a student credit card the use of which he really ignored. Unless he changes his spending habits, we are in big trouble…People! Learn how to manage your good credit cards, low rate or no annual fee credit cards or you’ll have to pay for them twice as much…
