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Does a person with a perfect credit rating exist??

I could give a flying duck (misspelling) about a few bucks cash back or points.
It’s not just a few bucks. If you put all your yearly expenses on the right credit cards you are talking more like thousands of bucks. Why not make money off the banks instead of the banks making money off of you. It’s not hard to make the switch. Plus it’s rather convenient for paying bills. Set up everything on auto pay and pay the credit card bill each month and watch your points add up. I’m constantly give my wife and daughter $100 gas gift cards that cash in for points. That’s mostly what I get with my points is BP gas station gift cards. But you can get gift cards for everything you can possibly imagine. Restaurants, grocery stores, gas stations, retail stores, it’s endless. If you are responsible with your credit and pay your cards every month why wouldn’t you take the money from the bank. It’s like playing monopoly and drawing the bank error in your favor card.
 
Exactly. Why not make a couple thousands per year for spending what you would anyway.
It’s not just a few bucks. If you put all your yearly expenses on the right credit cards you are talking more like thousands of bucks. Why not make money off the banks instead of the banks making money off of you. It’s not hard to make the switch. Plus it’s rather convenient for paying bills. Set up everything on auto pay and pay the credit card bill each month and watch your points add up. I’m constantly give my wife and daughter $100 gas gift cards that cash in for points. That’s mostly what I get with my points is BP gas station gift cards. But you can get gift cards for everything you can possibly imagine. Restaurants, grocery stores, gas stations, retail stores, it’s endless. If you are responsible with your credit and pay your cards every month why wouldn’t you take the money from the bank. It’s like playing monopoly and drawing the bank error in your favor card.
Exactly. Why not make a couple thousands per year for spending what you would anyway.
If I did all that my cash back and points would be in the tens...... of dollars.
It's not worth my effort.
I have one card that pays no points, and no cash back, and I'm fine with that. .
 
I have never checked my score either. Don't know how, don't care. I HATE using a credit card, and pay it off when I do use it within a couple days, at the atm.
I could give a flying duck (misspelling) about a few bucks cash back or points.
I had a car loan once, about 35 years ago.
I wrote a check yesterday for my personal property taxes, I hate checks. While I carry cash, cash means little to me. I don't know how to use an ATM, never used one. When I leave the house, I never leave without a phone or my wallet. Between the two, I can buy a house. I pay as much in life as I can with a credit card. At the end of the month the card gets paid by itself, automatic withdraw. Years ago I put college tuition on my credit card. I get between 7 to 12 hundred bucks back a year, every year, just for using it, now it's a game! I just keep one account full for all my monthly business dealings. That way I have a credit card to back any problems with a transaction. Cash and banks are not your friends when it comes to retrieving a transaction, in most cases. Just my way of doing business. You have to keep a goodly amount in that account, not a problem, I don't buy, if I can't pay for it.
 
I am sure mine is not very high as I have no credit & no credit cards. I have never bothered to look at my score nor have I ever cared.
Everything I own has always been paid for except my house.
 
I wish the bastards didn’t even have my name or ss#. I never asked for a credit score. Its just something the banks and government have made up to keep us under thumb. F’ the machine!
 
I wrote a check yesterday for my personal property taxes, I hate checks. While I carry cash, cash means little to me. I don't know how to use an ATM, never used one. When I leave the house, I never leave without a phone or my wallet. Between the two, I can buy a house. I pay as much in life as I can with a credit card. At the end of the month the card gets paid by itself, automatic withdraw. Years ago I put college tuition on my credit card. I get between 7 to 12 hundred bucks back a year, every year, just for using it, now it's a game! I just keep one account full for all my monthly business dealings. That way I have a credit card to back any problems with a transaction. Cash and banks are not your friends when it comes to retrieving a transaction, in most cases. Just my way of doing business. You have to keep a goodly amount in that account, not a problem, I don't buy, if I can't pay for it.
Running a tractor trailer generates significant cash flow in and out, and a few crumbs are left if good management prevails. When I started driving in the 70s, most of the old timers carried large amounts of cash. Didn't seem like a good idea to me, no recourse if you got rolled. I got a Visa card with a $1300 credit limit when I bought my first truck. Soon had the limit up to $10,000 when I got a history of paying the $500 monthly charges in full a day after the bill arrived.

I co-signed a refinancing of a student loan for my son-in- law back in 2015, and when we financed a car for my wife, I found my score had dropped to 780. Well worth it. When I blew the engine in the Peterbilt four years later, the CAT dealer ran my score, back over 800, and I got 12 months to pay off the overhaul at 0% interest, paid it in full while my capital reserves were still at work earning money. The system rewards prompt payments of balances well below credit limits. I balked at paying for groceries with a credit card, having done so in a short rough patch decades ago. Different deal today, I like getting 3% cash back for buying a necessity.
 
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