Managing Your Credit Cards While Moving

I absolutely HATE moving! I would rather have my wisdom teeth pulled without anesthesia while lying on a bed of nails. I really hate it that much. It’s stressful, I hate packing, and I especially hate unpacking. I’m terrible about it, too. I’ll be living in a place six months or more before I finally [...]


MasterCard’s New “inControl”

Technically this isn’t all that new, it’s been out since April. But, I hadn’t heard of it before because it’s only available for businesses to use.
I’ll start by giving you a run down on the card and then we’ll talk how that could, and should, be applied to consumers.
Here’s how it goes:
Two backstage passes to [...]


How to Get Perfect Credit

I know there are some of you out there who would like to have a perfect credit score. According to the Fair Isaac Corp’s scale, the number that defines perfection is 850. Only about 1% of the population has achieved such perfection and I’m going to teach you how to be among them. Just so [...]


Why Keeping a Check Register Is Important

I always love training new bankers. I’m actually not “training” the new girl at work, but she’s still a lot of fun to be around.
She came into the credit union today in a bit of a panic. She had checked her account and there was a fraudulent charge showing up. She was nervous and worried [...]


Debt Collector’s Getting Their Day In Court

Sometimes our legal system amazes me. I mean, who would have thought that a woman could sue McDonald’s for burning herself with hot coffee? I don’t think many people believe in the ‘innocent until proven guilty’ mantra as evidenced by the good number of innocent people that go to jail, only to be determined later [...]


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