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Watch Your Mail Credit Card Offers Are Dangerous



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ure, free gifts are great.      credit card that comes your way.  
Who doesn’t want a free         Why? Because credit cards are     
gift? But when free credit      loans and the lenders feel you    
card offers come in the mail, we      can only have so many loans out   
may feel like we’re the most          at once before it becomes         
important person in the world but     unmanageable based on your        
we should be careful. When those      income.                           
free offers are from credit card                                        
companies, we may want to avoid       It’s a downward spiral: Your      
signing up altogether and simply      credit rating is so good that     
throw them out! The credit card       you’re thought of as a great      
companies like us because we have     risk. And because they think that 
good credit. But it could be our      you’re a good risk, you get many  
financial ruin if we sign up for      offers. But because you get lots  
too many cards!                       of offers and you sign up… you’re 
                                      thought of as a bad risk! Even if 
This is because credit card           you don’t use all of the          
providers use the concept of risk     available credit limit on your    
measurement to determine who need     cards, the availability is there  
to receive a credit card. And if      and that’s what lending           
your credit rating is good, you       institutions look at.             
seem to be a good risk to the                                           
credit card providers. So they        And, if you find that your        
make many of their offers             outstanding debts (such as credit 
attractive.                           cards, loans, or bills owing)     
                                      have gotten out of hand from      
When you get these great offers       excess credit cards, you just     
in the mail, you should consider      might want to consider pulling it 
very carefully before you jump in     all together through a debt       
with both feet and get every          consolidation loan. A debt        



consolidation loan gives you the      necessarily a bad thing. We need  
benefit of getting a fixed            them in this day and age. But     
monthly payment (rather than an       what you need to do is approach   
unknown variable payment) and a       them thoughtfully, selecting the  
lower interest rate and usually       best and discarding the rest. And 
over a longer period of time to       if things have gotten out of your 
repay.                                control, consolidate your debt to 
                                      get control of it again.          
So credit cards aren’t                

                              






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