| wangfoo said: The downside of opening (and closing) many cards is that it tends to not work well with your credit score. Twestern - You're right; I was just replying to the comment of never ever use credit cards. |
I actually did some research on what you said, because I was worried about the same thing, and that is only true if you have a bad credit history to begin with. Closing accounts doesn't affect anything as long as they weren't delinquent, and the number of accounts you open is a very small percentage of your overall credit score, which, as I said, only changes your score if you do not have a good credit history.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
