I prob have ten cards I don't use often.
Good rule of thumb: try to use every account once every six months.
When I was trying to get out of cc debt at the ripe age of 19, I wanted to close every acct I paid off but knew that isn't what I should do...so I kept them open with extremely low usage and many of those accounts have blossomed into multi thousand dollar lines! I do have like 17 open lines haha. Boy am I glad my self control prevailed!
The more credit you have open the better in most cases.
Think:
More positive tradelines
Lowered util
Increased aaoa
:-)
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