Comments on: Freelancer Writers and Credit Cards

By: Anne Wayman

Anne Wayman — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:20:13 +0000

Tammy – yes, your statement “It only works because we don’t use the CC for anything we can’t pay off. If we want to buy something big, we get a special account with a low rate (Sears has 0% for a year deals, for example). Or we pull from our savings.” is the key.

Congratulations.

By: Tammy Takahashi

Tammy Takahashi — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:15:29 +0000

We use the Amazon Visa card and CostCo American Express cards. We pay them off every month. We’re late maybe once a year. But we get enough free books from Amazon, and enough cash back from Costco, that it ends up that we save money.

We used to have the United Miles plus card. But we stopped flying with United.

Having a credit card makes things much easier; I don’t have to carry cash around or mess with checks. It’s also much, much easier to keep track of what we’re spending money on, because it’s all right there on the CC statement.

It only works because we don’t use the CC for anything we can’t pay off. If we want to buy something big, we get a special account with a low rate (Sears has 0% for a year deals, for example). Or we pull from our savings.

By: Anne Wayman

Anne Wayman — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:26:37 +0000

blush, of course it is… not sure where I keep getting all those extra cs but it’s fixed… and you’re welcome.

By: Rico

Rico — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:07:26 +0000

It’s Rico, and thanks for the link! :)