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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 12:14 PM
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Poll question: How much credit card debt do you have?
In dollars?

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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 12:19 PM
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1. Just under £300
although in my last statement they said I was more than £700 in credit! :rofl:
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CatholicEdHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 12:27 PM
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2. None, pay it off each month
But they are trying to up my finance charges from zero to $1.50 minimum.
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hippiechick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 12:29 PM
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3. None, but only 'cause my credit's so bad I can't get a card.
:hide:
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Wcross Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 12:44 PM
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4. Under 1000.00 but I am changing my ways!
It will be paid off in April. I sort of went on a "spending binge" over the past year. It was up to 5000.00 at one point and I said to myself "holy crap"!!!!!!!
I closed all but one account and have that card in my safe, it will not see the light of day again if I can help it.
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achtung_circus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 01:00 PM
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5. They owe me money.
$0,000.93
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 01:01 PM
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6. Zero.
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 01:08 PM
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7. It's under $4k.
We had to have furniture in our apartment. :shrug:
Duckie
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grace0418 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 01:09 PM
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8. I used to have a lot of debt but we slowly paid it off before we bought our
condo. I briefly let it get up there again when I tried to start my own business (sadly just before 9/11, not a good time to start a business, but we had no way of knowing). But I got rid of it again and for years I've paid it off every month. It took a lot of personal "training" to keep myself disciplined about it, but now it's second nature.

The card works for ME now because I get oodles of airline miles for my purchases. I refuse to ever give the cc insane profits in the form of finance charges ever again.
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Guava Jelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 01:10 PM
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9. $212.00
I will be credit card free next week when i pay it off
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 01:18 PM
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10. thankfully none but it took us a long time to get there, i didn't think it would ever happen.
7 years to be exact.
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crim son Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 01:26 PM
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11. None.
I don't use credit cards. We do owe on the house but housing prices have gone up so dramatically here that when we sell (IF we sell :grr: ) the debt will be wiped out. That can't happen soon enough because, being unwilling to go into debt, we're living lean and mean.
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Nicole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 01:32 PM
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12. Zero n/t
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H2O Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 01:37 PM
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13. Zero.
I have never had a credit card.
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 01:39 PM
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14. I sorta have none
Meaning I have $3600 in debt and $7000 in the bank. The CC debt is at zero percent until July, so that is when I will pay it off. On Monday I will borrow another $5000 at 1.9% until September. I can get a 6 month CD that pays over 4%. Seems like an easy $50 to me. :shrug:
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WindRavenX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 01:42 PM
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15. 1,400. For a student, that's not bad
I only make 80/week, and that doesn't pay for textbooks, travel expenses, medical expenses, clothes (that I haven't bought in over 2 years, oy), cell phone bill, groceries, etc.

So I'm pretty damn happy with my debt. It could've been a lot worse given my situation.

I've just accepted I can't go out everyweek, and I limit myself to a bottle of 7$ wine for a treat with my weekly paycheck :)
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smoogatz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 01:56 PM
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16. Zip. Zero. Zilch.
We use debit cards almost exclusively now. My wife has one credit card, which she uses only for stuff like hotels/rental cars, and which I'm not allowed to touch (because I'd probably buy another guitar with it. Bad smoogatz! Bad!). It's really the only way to fly--fuck the debt industry and their 19.99999999% interest.
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Mojambo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 03:24 PM
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17. I no longer own credit cards
So I owe ZERO.
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 03:30 PM
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18. None. Zip. Nada
I got rid of all of that years ago. I use a Visa debit card now that gets paid off every month.
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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 03:38 PM
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19. Personal credit cards, nada.
But I routinely charge anywhere between $4K-$10K a month on the business card.

Those points add up in a quick hurry.
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mnhtnbb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 04:58 PM
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20. Pay it off every month
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 04:59 PM
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21. just $10 a month for newsgroups access
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