Curious: What’s your credit card spending like? Do you pay it off in full every month? Minimum? You just deal with the interest rate?

(I realize it’s biased asking folks who joined a Personal Finance bowl as they’re more money conscious than the avg person. Still interested to know! TYIA)

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I run all my expenses through my credit card (except for a few bills that pull directly from a bank account). Every dollar spent is mapped ahead of time in my budget (I use YNAB). I pay off the full balance on my card weekly, and the reap all the cash back rewards for buying the things I was going to buy anyway.

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I use a travel rewards card for almost everything and pay off in full each month.

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I pay for almost everything on my card to get the cash back. I probably get $40 free every month from the cash back perks. I also like the added purchase protection.

I pay it off often throughout the month and rarely carry a balance past 30 days. At one point in grad school when money was tight and I had to put a lot on the card I was paying $200 in interest a month and thought to myself NEVER AGAIN lol. At that time, I’d call every 6 months and negotiate the rate lower, but since I pay it off now the rate doesn’t matter as much.

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Everything is run through my credit cards, and I pay them off the day they are due. Never ever accumulated a penny of credit card interest

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Same as M1. Everything is run through my AMEX except for a few utilities and car note. It's budgeted and paid off each month. If there's an expense I don't feel like covering with cash I use a variety of other cards that I can get 0% on for several months. Anything else that's running on unsecured financing is 0% and the car note is 1.9%.

Using credit isn't the end of the world. Managing your cost, i.e., interest rates, is key.

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I run all monthly expenses through my Amex and pay off the statement balance very month.

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I use my AMEX card for everything and I pay off every month so no interest.

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Didn’t know how to manage my money at one point in my life and I had racked in 22k in bc debt.

We buy everything with our credit cards and pay off the balance every week. It’s been great for the airline points!

Y have ocd so i pay every day to keep it in 0

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