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Garden Club - September 2022

UncleB — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 04:00:09 GMT

Welcome

Garden Club Members!

Welcome all new GCers, returning GCers and

old timers to our little island of

"No Credit Applications"!

What is gardening? Quite simply, it involves refraining from applying for new credit or seeking CLIs that require hard pulls. Soft pull CLIs, however, are not only acceptable, but are encouraged. The idea is to allow one's current trade lines to grow and mature, waiting for inquiries to age or fall off, and possibly waiting for "baddies" to be removed/age off. During this time, one tends to one's current accounts and watches their AAoA (average age of accounts) grow and the new credit ding fade. Here we socialize, commiserate and support each other while waiting for baddies to fall off, new accounts and/or inquiries to age or if we just want a place to hang out to get away from the hustle and bustle of credit card talk.

So, if you're at the stage of your credit journey where you're ready to enter the garden, please come and join us. You may pick up your complimentary watering can and garden gloves by the front door - you can even choose your favorite color! We're proud to offer a well-appointed clubhouse. There is a snack table set up. You'll always find camaraderie available here as you work towards your gardening goals.

Help yourself to our drinks and appetizers. Flat-breads, sliders, pizza, buffalo wings, grilled zucchini, kale salads, pecan and apple pie à la mode. There's also a nice selection of cold beers. Once again, please feel free to bring anything you'd like to add to the festivities. And, in the corner diagonally across from the front door, there is a fully stocked bar, along with a wide selection of soft drinks. If needed, there are some anti-itch medications stocked in our supply cabinet near the door - Lanacaine, Benadryl, etc. If you need to place your reports in the deep freeze, we also have a freezer, located next to the bar, so go ahead and throw your reports in!

So come on in and make yourself comfortable. Make a gardening plan and commit to sticking with it! Are you planning to wait six months before applying for additional credit? A year? Until the last of your baddies drop off? Whatever your goal, we're here to support you. If you feel the "app-itch" coming on, let us know and we'll try to help you through it.

Now, if you happen to leave the garden prematurely, that's your decision and we respect that. You are always welcome to come back, pick up your gardening tools and start over again. But please, celebrate any approvals and the discussion of which credit card to app for on another thread. While we are happy with members’ success stories, we really do want to keep this thread's focus and tone to be consistent with gardening efforts. You are certainly welcome to celebrate SP CLIs in this thread, as they do not involve inquiries or apps for new credit.

To maintain the 'spirit' of the Garden Club, any discussion regarding credit apps and/or approvals (including approval announcements) is subject to be removed from Garden Club posts by a moderator and/or your post may be moved to a new thread on the appropriate board. Thanks for understanding!

GARDEN CLUB CHALLENGE AND RECOGNITIONS:

Garden Club Challenge: Pick a firm date for staying in the garden and post it in your siggy!

Garden Club recognition levels: To qualify, your reports must contain:

No new tradelines of any type on one's accounts
No HPs for anything that would allow for the possibility of a new tradeline being issued or increasing the CL of an existing tradeline

*The Garden Club community recognizes that certain inquiries are necessary for factors beyond those listed above. Therefore, Hard Pulls/Inquiries for the following bona fide reasons are exempt but not limited to: Opening checking/savings accounts (so long as no line of credit is being opened in addition to these accounts), employment applications, apartment rentals, utilities and other such services. These are not considered to be applications for credit per se.

Also, for those who are seeking a new mortgage or refinancing an existing one, we understand that your lender will pull your credit reports multiple times before closing. For those GC'ers, the first HP will set your clock, not the subsequent pulls. However, if you are simply rate shopping, then the normal HP rules apply.

You will be able to add the following to your siggy if you have been abiding by the above for the following time periods...

Less than 1 month - seedling
1 month - bronze spade
3 months - silver spade
6 months - gold spade
9 months - palladium spade
12 months - platinum spade
15 months - ruby
18 months - emerald
21 months - sapphire
24 months or more - diamond

Please note: recognition levels reset once you add an account or incur a HP. We recognize that there may be very good reasons for "leaving the garden," and we respect whatever thoughtful decisions members make. As stated previously, members are always welcome to come back, grab their gloves and start gardening once more.

To add the code, click 'My Settings', then 'Personal Information', then paste the code into the 'Signature' box. When you're finished, be sure to click 'Save' at the bottom of the page!

*New forum members may be unable to add/edit HTML; see note below.

To ensure that your graphic comes out properly on your siggy, please be certain that it has been added as the very first line of code.

Seedling:

<img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/62749iA47C118690AE79C4/" title="Seedling Garden Club Member" border="0" width="50" height="67" align="right">

Bronze:

<img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/33673iA9327A27227FE439/" border="0" title="Bronze Garden Club Member" width="40" height="40" align="right">

Silver:

<img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/33675i85072060A7E9ED9F/" border="0" title="Silver Garden Club Member" width="40" height="40" align="right">

Gold:

<img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/33674i6D97EA62D60FAA1E/" border="0" title="Gold Garden Club Member" width="40" height="40" align="right">

Palladium:

<img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/62750i80525A8D0134733C/" title="Palladium Garden Club Member" border="0" width="40" height="40" align="right">

Platinum:

<img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/33676i7D22867F5B8C8548/" border="0" title="Platinum Garden Club Member" width="120" height="80" align="right">

Ruby:

<img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/62751i19C20BE73EF51FCD/" border="0" title="Ruby Garden Club Member" width="40" height="40" align="right">

Emerald:

<img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/62752i0CF46A0DE3001FC9/" border="0" width="40" title="Emerald Garden Club Member" height="40" align="right">

Sapphire:

<img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/62753i2F12F03322059E19/" border="0" width="40" title="Sapphire Garden Club Member" height="40" align="right">

Diamond:

<img src="https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/33677iDA1FD49740EB050B/" border="0" title="Diamond Garden Club Member" width="40" height="40" align="right">

So, please feel free to come on in and share your gardening progress. If you're new or returning, what are your goals? If you've been here for a while, how are things going? Let's all mingle, and support each other in our respective gardening efforts!

*Just a reminder, if you are new to the forum you may not be able to add a seedling or spade to your profile yourself; a rank of "Member" is required to add HTML to your signature. In this case send any moderator a PM (or tag in a post) and we'll add it for you.

You can also use the "Report Inappropriate Content" option on any post to notify a moderator; be sure to indicate that you need _____ spade. (seedling, bronze, etc.)

Re: Garden Club - September 2022

simplynoir — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 04:00:52 GMT

September, you have a very low bar to clear compared to the mess that was August so don't screw this up............

Re: Garden Club - September 2022

UncleB — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 04:01:06 GMT

Happy September, everybody!

Re: Garden Club - September 2022

UncleB — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 04:12:42 GMT

@Adkins wrote:
Yeah, I won't be staying awake for the new thread. I need the sleepies. Tomorrow is the youngests' tiny humans womb evacuation day. She turns four. 😱😱 Amaze balls!! We're having a party at grandma's house, plus presents and cake. THERE WILL BE CAKE. 🎂

Apologies for the throw-back to last month's thread, but I just had to acknowledge that it's insane that our "nub" is turning four years old!

@Adkins, please eat a big piece of cake for me, and Happy Birthday to your little one! 🥳

Re: Garden Club - September 2022

expatCanuck — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 04:14:05 GMT

Where does the time go?

Have a good month, all.

Re: Garden Club - September 2022

PapaTunde — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 04:15:40 GMT

@simplynoir wrote:
September, you have a very low bar to clear compared to the mess that was August so don't screw this up............

August was a great month --- no hurricanes

Re: Garden Club - September 2022

kilroy8 — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 04:18:11 GMT

Gotta be on Page 1 this month.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs069dndIYk&ab_channel=EarthWindandFireVEVO

Re: Garden Club - September 2022

mfinsmi1 — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 04:24:35 GMT

ooooo look i finally have a spade in my signature 😎

Re: Garden Club - September 2022

PapaTunde — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 04:42:16 GMT

@mfinsmi1 wrote:
ooooo look i finally have a spade in my signature 😎

Congrats !

Re: Garden Club - September 2022

RobynJ — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 05:17:43 GMT

In with the new and out with the old. September will be a good month for us all I predict. Good night everyone.

Re: Garden Club - September 2022

coldfusion — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 07:14:24 GMT

Not. First. Yet. Again.

September - best month of the year. Cheers!

Re: Garden Club - September 2022

tcbofade — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 08:27:24 GMT

Good morning boys and girls. Happy Thursday! Happy September!

I almost have a deck... they were supposed to be finished yesterday and that didn't happen...but they're close!

Here's to cooler weather!

Hope that you're all off to a good start!

Re: Garden Club - September 2022

tcbofade — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 08:43:33 GMT

Updated Fico 8 scores in signature... some damage due to increased cranberry, but nothing awful.

Coffee is brewing, cat has the zoomies this morning!

Re: Garden Club - September 2022

M_Smart007 — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 09:19:08 GMT

Did I make post #2 of the new thread?

Re: Garden Club - September 2022

M_Smart007 — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 09:26:02 GMT

I feel as If I have been gardening since last month

Re: Garden Club - September 2022

EdMan63 — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 10:06:17 GMT

Happy September all. Hope everyone is gardening with success. While my credit garden is fine my real landscape has been a nuisance with squirrels, turkeys and moles. Nature!!!

Re: Garden Club - September 2022

RobynJ — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 11:27:18 GMT

Good morning fellow gardeners,

I wanted to share my score updates with you but for some reason when I went to update this morning on MyFICO the date changed for next available update on 9/1 and now says on 9/2. Idk what to think of this but strange.

I did however get my updates on EX and TU and EQ was up and EX stayed the same.

Re: Garden Club - September 2022

FireMedic1 — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 11:47:59 GMT

Congrats to you all for taking a break and let the seeds grow! Yay Sept! Peak of huricane season. Bring it on!

Re: Garden Club - September 2022

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 12:47:49 GMT

@expatCanuck wrote:
Where does the time go?

Have a good month, all.

For those of us with some "maturity" under our belts I read in the last days of August that the average age life span dropped again and is now at 76 years and 1 month (last time it was this low was back in the 1990s for those of you even alive back then).

Some of us may be on "overtime" ... ?

Re: Garden Club - September 2022

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 12:55:09 GMT

@FireMedic1 wrote:
Congrats to you all for taking a break and let the seeds grow! Yay Sept! Peak of huricane season. Bring it on!

For some areas of the US it is also the time for the Decidous Folage to change there leaf colors while the sap tries to beat the cold and races to the roots

Better yet, my new Snow Blower is sitting quietly in the Garage contemplating the signal to run up the engines and go out and play

As a great door opener would be a good "nor'easter" for the greater Washington DC area