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Post by X factor on Oct 3, 2013 16:21:49 GMT -5
Just not sure if you can ever get ahead in life, or save any money, without charging or using credit cards. I've tried the whole 'just pay by cash' thing for a long time...and you just don't seem to get anywhere. Unless you earn over $1,500.00 a week consistently, like salaried or something...your cash just gets gobbled up in day to day, week to week, month to month expenses. This whole 'just live by cash' notion is great, when you're bringing in a ton of cash daily or weekly... But who does that, other than over paid government employees, or criminals, drug dealers ect? The average working class poor, just don't earn enough weekly, even while working full time, to be able to accumulate tons and tons of cash to buy car with, repair car with, pay rent with, grocery shop with, buy home with, pay insurance with, medical fees with, food with, utility bills with, buy clothes with and so on. It's not even about being irresponsible...it's about basic math and numbers...and someone earning $1000.00 or less per week, living on cash, will never be able to save anything...unless they simply live in a tent on the streets with no rent, utilities, or vehicle or anything. You indeed can save a 'ton' of cash, if you work full time, but are homeless...and ride bike to work from tent in woods or cities shelter. The rich get rich from 'charging'...from using other peoples money, the banks money, grants, ect. It's the only way....excluding athletes who get paid large cash salaries, and a few others. Even large corporations 'borrow' money from banks, charge, in order to get ahead. So how can someone earning $450.00 a week get ahead without doing the same? I currently live by cash...tried doing the responsible thing...but I see when you do that...you can't save anything...all your money, funds, always get gobbled up in daily, weekly, monthly expenses... Yes, the system simply gobbles up all your cash reserves, and you end up with nothing to show for your labor. So with that being a known economic reality fact...not sure if I can blame people for charging anymore. Charge while alive, make life good for yourself, then die owing $100,000.00 But at least while alive you were comfortable...why should you suffer, just so someone else can say 'you did the right thing to suffer, by living on cash only'... Cash only will get you no where...and that's the fact jack.
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Post by X factor on Jan 12, 2015 20:08:42 GMT -5
Charging, Credit Cards are why prices on everything is inflated by 5-10 times true value
If people, citizens, all started only buying what they could pay cash for, the price of just about everything would drop by 70-80%.
Credit is why cars cost 10 times more than it cost to make them, credit, financing is why homes, houses, cost or are inflated to 10-40 times more than they're actually worth.
Most people have been brainwashed into thinking the value of a house, wooden home, is 5-20 times it's actual value simply do to 'Banks', and how banks take advantage of people wanting things 'now'.
So banks artificially inflate the price of everything simple so they can make profits in interests.
If you actually add up value of material, wood, labor, to build house, it in no way comes to $240,000 dollars.
Banks and finance charging or interests, is one of the biggest frauds perpetrated on mankind ever.
But most are to brainwashed to realize this.
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Post by X factor on Apr 19, 2015 9:46:36 GMT -5
My view on credit cards is beginning to change. I use to be into this cash cash cash idea...but that only works when real young and have no real responsibilities....or if homeless living out of truck or van. Also, unless earning 5-10 times above what expenditures are, if one pays cash all the time for everything, one will surely almost always be broke. Credit cards are a useful tool only if not abused. And it's better to pay on them weekly rather than monthly. It's easier to manage credit cards and pay them down a lot quicker if they're paid down weekly. Also responsible credit card use can help build credit scores over time. And they can come in use during times of fiscal crisis, like if vehicle breaks down, repairs, ect. My rule is never allow the balance on any once card to get over $1000.00 Anything above 1000 dollars becomes a real burden to pay down. But if you have 5 credit cards each with a 1000 dollar line of credit, it's like having money stored in the bank for emergency use. But again you have to be responsible, if not they will ruin you or at least your credit. And credit is very important, especially when apart of the 'working poor' category. Cause good credit can allow you to get a new vehicle, or even a house, or other realistate that most just don't have the cash to buy. At least good credit gives one a chance of achieving that or those dreams or goals. But if one has bad credit and is poor, this world can be cruel, and then the only way to get ahead is through crime and corruption. Criminals don't need good credit cause they just steal to get what they want, they rob other people, stores. But when you obey all the rules, allow others and the system to sucker you, sometimes it can feel like you're the one being robbed by the system...but that's for a different post. Credit cards are good, and they can come in handy, as long as you're responsible with them.
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Post by X factor on Jun 1, 2015 17:55:50 GMT -5
Credit is important when poor, living check to checkLike large financial institutions, really the only way to elevate self to higher status is through loaned money or credit. Or I should say good credit. Cause later on down the road, it's good credit that will allow you to be fronted $50,000 to start a business or buy new equipment for business, or to buy realistate, land, a home, a car ect. Unless one is a millionaire many times over, one cannot continue to pay cash for big item purchases or one will always be broke or near broke. The richest banks, institutions in the world never risk their own capitol, they always risk other peoples money. And I've learned as a individual, sometimes you have to do the same in order to get ahead. Ahead as in business ventures. I just paid off yet another credit card and oh how good it feels... $700.00 limit...but that's just one...it adds up. And you can request higher limit over time... So imagine having 10 credit cards with $2-$5 thousand limit on them... Now you have 20 to $50,000 dollars in credit available to you. Now a fool will blow such credit on nothing...but a wise person would use such credit advance to help build business, or to obtain realistate, or a home, or something that will turn around and produce income for you. Don't ever be reckless with your credit!Credit is only good if it's good. Credit should only be used when say bank or credit union won't loan you money for car or house or business or truck ect. The good thing about credit is you don't have to ask for any ones approval. Card is basically saying ' Here, here's a $20,000 line of credit, use it as you please, just be willing to pay it back'If you can't pay back what you charge, than don't charge it, that's my rule. That's why to me credit only really makes sense if used towards business or to grow business, where you know investment will give you a fiscal return large enough to pay off charges. I mean some times the only thing that separates you from obtaining your dream is 1-5 thousand dollars. And sometimes good credit can create that bridge. Sometimes that good credit can get you there, get you where your family, so called friends, or even bank can't or won't. Take care of your credit and don't abuse it...cause it's you're only life line in a very cruel world.
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Post by X factor on Jun 11, 2015 18:03:37 GMT -5
One credit card has annual charge rate of $450.00! But this card could come in handy if caught in really bad jam and needing cash, but the only thing is full balance must be paid back every month. So if you charge $2000.00 in one billing cycle, you had better be able to pay it back. That takes a lot of discipline. I'd like to have this card for prestige, but doubt I'd ever charge more than $100 a pop, knowing that I have to pay full balance in 4 weeks. It's an American Express pre screened offer. Just not sure if I trust self with such a card yet.
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Post by X factor on Nov 24, 2015 0:33:30 GMT -5
The title: Not sure if u can ever get ahead or save without 'Charging'Odd thing is, in reference to title of this section above, that's exactly how the wealthy build their wealth is through a term called ' leveraging'Leveraging is when you earn, make or grow money using other peoples money. Leveraging is how people magnify their own 'worth', and is how many propel themselves to higher and higher wealth, the way satellites use planetary gravity to propel themselves further into space by building up speed. It's not the satellites speed, which has no engine, rather engineers back on Earth borrow momentum from the planets gravity to propel satellite along. This is also how people magnify their wealth, by using other peoples wealth to create more value in self than there actually is. Banks usually provide the capitol or the loan. Banks, which is a collection of other peoples assets, then turn around and lend other peoples those same assets (which isn't there's) to create an illusion of wealth, which begots more assets. Sorry I'm not using proper finance terms. But it's basically what single consumers do but at a much smaller level. In that if a consumer is only worth $5,000.00 in hard assets, yet secures credit for $20,000.00 they have quadrupled their potential worth. But the average consumer, unlike a wise investor, will squander that $20,000 credit line on stupid consumable goods, then simply be in debt, where as a wise investor will use that $20 gran to leverage more funds. Example, they might take that $20,000 and put down on a house worth $100,000. Now they go from having $5 gran to being worth $100 gran in money that's not even theirs yet. And then can turn around and leverage that $100 gran home for even more money, either by selling it or using it as collateral to aquire more and so forth. Ye, I know, that's a sloppy example but you get the drift. Banks are what help propel people to the next level, their willingness to lend money. Poor people stay poor for several reasons, but for sake of this topic these two reasons. 1. Don't know how to leverage what they do have, aren't investment minded. 2. Banks won't lend to them, considered 'high risk'. If you have nothing to leverage with you can't get anywhere. Banks literally determine who they're going to allow to prosper, and who's going to stay at the bottom feeding others through individual labor. When a bank denies you a $20 thousand dollar business loan they're basically saying 'Stay poor, stay at the bottom slave and labor for rest of life'. And at that point you should withdraw all funds from that bank if you're not worth them lending to as a member. The more you study this stuff, the more you begin to see how wealth is built through fiscal illusion or trickery for many. more to follow.
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Post by X factor on Aug 9, 2021 19:44:04 GMT -5
Well I just paid off annoying credit card balance instead of just paying 330-40 a month, just got sick of it being there, but this card connected with my banking, so not really losing much, cause I just consider the zero balance now apart of my 'net worth', in that if in a bind, whatever the card limit is, is my reserve.
Dave Ramsey tells his audience to pay down all debt, bunk that, I tried that once, to pay off all these tiny credit card bills, but then couldn't pay rent one month, and said 'never again'.
So I just stopped paying on all of them, years ago, and I think it's been seven years now or so, and the issue is gone.
I think one place tried to collect, but then covid came around and all in house court stuff cancelled, and now they're gone.
Covid kind of wiped the slate clean for me, and probably others as well.
That being said, my credit must be decent again cause starting to get all those pre approved offers again in the mail, even from some of the same places I owed a balance to years ago.
But wiser now, so realize I don't need any credit anymore for my lifestyle.
Just that one bank credit card is all I need, years ago I felt like a big shot opening my wallet by cashier and making sure everyone saw all the credit cards I had, boy how I've changed, but ye, I was in that spot years ago.
Anyways, credit is still good, but now that older, only good for if trying to get a large auto loan or house loan or small business loan, and I don't see myself doing any of that any time soon.
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