Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Opened A New Credit Card Today!!!

A few weeks ago before school started, my wife and I had saved up $100 in a clothing envelope for back to school clothes for my kids. I had my lovely wife check to see which of the kids needed what and she said Max, my youngest was fine, but Mickey would need some clothes. So we set out to buy school clothes. We got everything we needed and then ran out of money, but that is how this is supposed to work. Two weeks later, my wife "discovered" that Max would need some clothes, but of course, no money in the clothing fund.
We have also been saving for tires in a tire fund, and I pulled some money from that fund to pay for clothes for Max. Off we went to the consignment store to look for clothing. My wife found a deal at Sears for some incredible deals. We got two outfits for twenty one dollars and 30 cents. We got to the register and the woman told us that we could get $15 dollars off our purchase if we opened a Sears card today. I signed up for it and had a balance of $6.30 and paid that immediately at the counter. The card will come and we will close the account and cut it up.
I can't believe I found a positive use for a credit card. I wouldn't have tried this had I not become disciplined to never use credit again, but it felt great to get two outfits for $6.30. Credit cards reek.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

BLASPHEMY! BLASPHEMY I SAY! YOU SUM'BITCH! im so glad i charged my damn pizza hut pizza today. when you die, im gonna dig you up, open the lid and throw in about 1,000 credit cards. Spend eternity with THAT you hypocrite! I'm gonna show up to work tomorrow and youre gonna tell me youre Hindu, I just know it