Happy Holidays and a Personal Finance Roundup
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How to Avoid Credit Card Minimum Annual Purchases Fees
As we wrote about it last year, credit card issuers are instituting annual fees they are willing to refund if you make enough purchases in a year. The first issuer to start doing this is Citibank and recently sent notices out to cardholders about the $60 fee starting April 1st. If cardholders spend $2400 in a twelve month period, the fee will be waived. Consumerist has the full text of the letter cardholders received. I received an email from a reader asking if I knew what she could do: “I am not sure if you… Read the whole article...Categories: Uncategorized Tags: April 1st, Balance Transfer, Cardholders, Citibank, Close Account, Credit Card Issuers, Debit Card, Email, High Interest
Checkbooks 101
Categories: Uncategorized Tags: Banks, Briefly, Checkbooks, Checking Account, Debit Card, Extra Fees, Little Time, Premise
Getting Paid to Play: High-Stakes Checking
Share This Photo: Callahan Pssst. Hey, kid. Yeah, it’s me, in the trenchcoat. Want to earn 3 to 5 percent interest on your checking account? Well, you can. There’s a catch, of course, but it’s not a big catch, and you don’t have to do anything sneaky. (Trenchcoat notwithstanding.) Over 600 credit unions and community banks offer reward checking accounts, and nearly 1.5 million customers have signed up. With a typical reward account, you’re required to use direct deposit and e-statements, and you have to use… Read the whole article...Categories: Uncategorized Tags: Atm Fees, Checking Account, Checking Accounts, Community Banks, Credit Unions, Debit Card, Direct Deposit, Federal Deposit Insurance, Financial Analyst, High Interest Savings, Minimum Balance, Reward Checking, Several Ways, Slam Dunk, Statement Period
American Express Charge Card Flip Video Camera Giveaway
Categories: Uncategorized Tags: American Express, Debit Card, Debit Cards, Flexibility, Full Swing, Holiday Season, Membership Rewards Program, Money Work, Nightmare, Video Games
The Money Diaries: The 20-something semi-conscious spender
Categories: Money Tags: 4 Months, Debit Card, Half Hour, Ing Direct, Loan Payment, Real People, Second Job, Seven Days, Sex Diaries, Social Worker, Spender, Spending Habits, Starbucks, T Mobile, Willpower