Got my new credit card the other day - or should I say we got our new credit card? Hubby is the additional cardholder. He went shopping and managed to spend quite a bit, and he withdrew £10 from the ATM. I didn't find out until that night (I was working). I told him that withdrawing money from a cash machine with your credit card is a big NO! Never do it. I told him it affects your credit rating (which I'm sure I read somewhere that it does). He had me really stressed out. I told him we will clear the balance during the interest free period so I am hoping that it will be ok. It was his first time using a credit card so it could have been worse.
I keep on saying this but I am going to apply for tax credits soon. We will save the money since it's money we wouldn't have had anyway.
Eight days till payday. I think I will just make it with the skin of my teeth.
Plan for next month:
-sort out tax credits
-money aside for road tax
- get overtime
There's probably more things I need to do but I'll leave it at that for now.
Oh dear
April 29th, 2010 at 02:51 pm
April 29th, 2010 at 04:20 pm 1272558001
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Most credit cards charge a flat fee for the cash advance right away and then start charging interest on the cash advance from first day. The sad part is most of the time the payment applies the the cash advance Last so they can get the most interest until Paid In Full.
Since he just spent the money; If it was MY card I would return as much as possible to the store for a refund then rebuy later once you have the money, so you can pay off the cash advance faster.