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The Use of Credit Cards For Everyday Purchases

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The Use of Credit Cards For Everyday Purchases

By: Joe Villanvera

In your quest for discovering the perfect credit card for your use some advice you are sure to encounter is to never, never use your card for every day purchases. You are not to use it for toilet paper, milk or dish soap.

Did I mention toilet paper?

With the economy going down the tubes and unemployment numbers increasing weekly, good people are making some bad credit decisions. For many, those bad decisions involve using their credit cards for necessary staples.

When Should You Use Your Credit Card?

Before we go into any kind of discussion on when you shouldn't use your credit card, let's talk about when you should. Conventional wisdom dictates that credit cards should serve one of two purposes:

1. As a means to build credit. There is no need to borrow money to purchase a certain item you want. On the other hand, you are attempting to build up your credit and that can't be done without digging out that dusty old credit card from the depths of the desk drawer and putting it to use.

2. Using your credit card is the only option available to take care of an emergency. No one expects their car's engine to conk out in the middle of the expressway 600 miles from home. A pipe busting and flooding the basement with two feet of water is certainly an unexpected occurrence. It is entirely possible that you don't have $4,000.00 lying around to cover such things. Use your credit card.

Sometimes even Using your Credit Card for Everyday Staples can be Appropriate

So, you should never use your credit card for all of that “ordinary” stuff. That's it. End of story. Right?

Things are never just black and just white. There are many gray areas that must be considered occasionally. Sometimes those everyday staples add up to a substantial amount of money whether the plastic is handy or not. Today's gruesome economy and job picture has thrown many families into dire circumstances.

When it comes down to the choice of buying baby formula or not having any the next time your baby cries out in hunger, you are surely going to whip out that plastic without giving it a second thought. I hope you selected a credit card when you were shopping for one that earns you reward points every time you use it.

I can't go into detail with this as each credit card issuer has a distinctive rewards plan (if they offer one at all) and so have no idea how your particular plan works. We will stick to the credit cards that reward you with points for purchases made on the card. Those reward points can then be cashed in for all sorts of merchandise. The more you use the card the more points you accumulate and the more stuff you can get for nothing. Hey, you can use it the next time you purchase toilet paper!

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