The Buckets by Greg Cravens for July 07, 2022

Sooner or later someone will decide plastic is bad for your health.

Since their inception around 1970, the penalty for not paying the total of what you spent by the due date, has been paying an exorbitant amount of interest. The interest rate has always been explained upfront yet many people don’t mind paying thousands of dollars extra to get the things they “have to have” before they have the money to buy them.

Without credit cards, our economy would be smaller and worse off. So I guess that means Satan is a capitalist.

One of those things that should be taught in school, since so many parents don’t ‘get it’: credit cards are not free money.

Nah, I’d best keep my keyboard shut…

And one of his other minions invented the smart phone.

And people think they are a godsend.

It was Frank McNamara, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diners_Club_International

Truth cc have ruined many lives

When I got a Discover Card, I Discovered I could get anything I wanted. They Discovered I couldn’t pay. ;>)

If anyone ever tells you “Debt is a tool”, punch them in the junk and push them in front of a truck; that will kinder be than what they’re trying to do to you.

https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/the-history-of-credit-cards/