How We Use Credit Cards the Smart and Safe Way

Get Your Money Right

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When it comes to danger it seems like not even Dark Wing Duck can hold a stick up to credit cards. These things, if mismanaged, can wreak havoc on your finances but if tamed and use right there are a lot of perks. Today we dig into how to use them the smart and safe way… the Misfit way.

In this 39 minute episode:

Intro [0:00]
Welcome [1:40]
Disclaimer [2:40]
Why I decided to talk about this [4:50]
Understanding the credit card game [7:05]
How NOT to use credit cards [12:00]
Why you don’t need to carry a balance to get credit for using your credit card [14:00]
Dangers of paying off the balance in full [17:15]
How we do it and what makes it so powerful [21:00]
Why I stopped using debit cards [27:40]
A word about being afraid of credit cards [30:20]
What the financial industry has taught us is broken [36:00]

If we're going to get our money right... sticking our heads in the sand won't get us there

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Links mentioned during the show:

Episode 70 & Why a credit freeze comes up short on protection
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