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[juldea]

Dear Ms. Suggs, [note from me: I thought against putting my last name in here, but who really things I'll get a LJ stalker?]

You've been very good at buying things with your credit card and slowly paying them off, which obviously means you're paying us interest and we're getting rich. Therefore, we're going to automatically give you a new card with a higher credit limit, and cancel the one you have. The new card has a limit of $2,500, which is $1,100 more than your old card. ENJOY!!!

Well okay, that's not what the letter really said, but if you read between the lines...

Repeat after me, self: I will not think of a credit limit as money I have. I will not think of a credit limit as money I have. I will not think of a credit limit...

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[withlyn.livejournal.com]

Well, damn. As you will read if I ever actually post the story of my travells, in mid-september I maxed out my credit card and didn't have anymore cash, and buying food was going to be a bit difficult. My mom was going to pay the bill, but all the mechanics of that, what with the mail and all, take a lot of time... The credit card company, as soon as they saw I was maxed, gave me another $500 (and it was only $500) of credit, so I ended up being able to buy stuff with it again before my mom's payment got to them. (I also bought stuff even earlier thanks to the help of a nice Pepsi truck driver, but that will wait for the big story.) And I sure as hell think of that as money I have; the only money I have, in fact.

Then again, I am currently living the life of a mooch, and spending money isn't something I really have to do, and there's no need to go down to town, where there are things to tempt me, because I can go the other way and get to the forest just as fast. On the other hand, once I'm in Mt. Vernon (tomorrow) I will be in the city where there are things to tempt me again. Maybe I will get a job teaching frustrated community-college kids math and physics for crazy-ass hourly fees.