• On Life and Love

    First and last credit card

    My first credit card — a Chase Rewards card that I got back in 2005 to help with Thorn expenses — is now my last and final. It had a $300 credit limit when I got it, and had a $2700 limit earlier this evening. I paid the remaining bit of balance on it this morning and closed it just 20 minutes ago once I saw the balance was $0. It took 2 minutes and 52 seconds to sever my last line of revolving credit. I feel strangely… cut loose. Like I’m no longer wrapped up in so much of America’s debt problem, even though I still have loans. But…