Capitalism pushes materialism on us all. We have to buy stuff- no matter the cost- and that stuff must be expensive. Clothes are not pretty or nice unless they come from designer stores. Shoes must have famous names etched into the soles and cell phones are not useful unless they scream i[have a]phone. And how do we pay for it all? Plastic. We sell large pieces of our soles and have them packaged in small, thin, pieces of plastic and we spend the rest of our lives trying to free them. Our LIVEs turn EVIL and we aren’t happy at all.

Unfortunately, these cards for many people, are a necessity. And every one offers you an opportunity to exchange one devil for another in the form of 0% balance transfers. And they seem to prey on the broke. We are the ones who need the cards the most and we eat up all the advertisements without doing our research. we see 0% credit cards and we run like chickens with our heads cut off to the nicest lender who offers validation of our materialism.

What do I suggest if you are looking for a credit card? I suggest research. Find out which credit cards offer the best terms. Shop for credit cards the way you would shop for a home. Be picky and don’t settle for anything that is too good to be true. And most importantly, don’t be too quick to get a credit card to get you through hard times. They don’t get you through them, they just delay them. Learn how to pay back your cards. Don’t get snowballed by confusion. Get the facts.

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