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Why You Should Care About Your Credit

Chonce Maddox / September 6th, 2017 / No Comments

There’s this sentiment buzzing around in the personal finance space that you shouldn’t really care about your credit if you truly want to improve your finances. Credit is an interesting concept. It’s the ability of a customer to obtain goods or services before payment, based on the trust that payment will be made in the future. Basically, you receive a rating based on your ability...

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Meet my financial mistakes

financial mistakes, money mistakes, debt, credit card

CF / May 9th, 2011 / 4 Comments

I’ve made a lot of financial mistakes in not a lot of time. In some ways, it was for the best, because I learned a lot of life lessons and it gave me a lot of motivation for getting my financial house in order. In other ways, it’s really kept me from pursuing opportunities that I’ve been interested in. Photo credit: Original photo by Images of Money via http://www.flickr.com/photos/59937401@N07/5929554283/in/photostream Taking...

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