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Mar. 18th, 2006 07:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xifengI AM MAN, CONQUEROR OF NATURE. I make FIRE! Hunt MAMMOTH! Kill BIG GAME!
I have also just purchased a dishwasher and am the proud recipient of a small and limited credit line, which is more credit than I had when I walked into the store. The game plan, at this point, is to pay off the dishwasher, buy a laptop and a desktop and junk to go with them, pay all that off, and then cancel and cut up the card. At that point, it ought to have served its purpose. However, let's not get too ahead of ourselves here.
m0mmy picked out the dishwasher; it's a new white Whirlpool, and the people at Best Buy, in their eagerness to move product, knocked $50 off the price for her. They'll come and install it, and they'll also haul away the old one for us. (Now would be a good time to start bailing the stinky water out of the old one...) Wheeeeee!
The idea that I have purchased an appliance has apparently not sunk in yet, and probably won't until I get the first bill. It's not that I can't afford to make the payments--I could have written a check for the whole shebang and owned it free and clear--but the point here was to build credit, and the reminder that I've kind of succeeded is heartening.
I have also just purchased a dishwasher and am the proud recipient of a small and limited credit line, which is more credit than I had when I walked into the store. The game plan, at this point, is to pay off the dishwasher, buy a laptop and a desktop and junk to go with them, pay all that off, and then cancel and cut up the card. At that point, it ought to have served its purpose. However, let's not get too ahead of ourselves here.
m0mmy picked out the dishwasher; it's a new white Whirlpool, and the people at Best Buy, in their eagerness to move product, knocked $50 off the price for her. They'll come and install it, and they'll also haul away the old one for us. (Now would be a good time to start bailing the stinky water out of the old one...) Wheeeeee!
The idea that I have purchased an appliance has apparently not sunk in yet, and probably won't until I get the first bill. It's not that I can't afford to make the payments--I could have written a check for the whole shebang and owned it free and clear--but the point here was to build credit, and the reminder that I've kind of succeeded is heartening.
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Date: 2006-03-19 01:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-19 07:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-19 04:23 pm (UTC)Needless to say, a $300 check would put a significant dent in my
ability to spend irresponsibly on books and DVDschecking account. ^_-no subject
Date: 2006-03-19 04:24 pm (UTC)Incidentally, you've been slacking. XO!!!!1
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Date: 2006-03-20 12:18 am (UTC)I love my credit rating. It's about as good as it can get after me religiously paying off my credit card on time for about nine years now, always being on time with bills, plus paying off a four year car loan in four months ;)