@Anonymous wrote:Ir probably would be a good idea to stay away from the forums and especially from the approvals section. Remind yourself that if you don't stop, you may eventually harm your credit by having your lenders take action against you for aggressive credit-seeking. I'm sure you would not want that to happen after the hard work you have done in building your credit.
Sadly, I do think that is the key
I disagree with staying away from this site cause you can't stop apping!
You just need to hang on the other sections of the forum, have you tried the garden Club 
All you need is to plant a seed!
I'll send you all my Inquiries. That'll stop the approvals. 
I hear you. I had to seriously take a break from the Approvals board.
I've spent a long time with no credit and last fall got the Merrick card. Well since finding the forums here I now have uhmm, more than a handfull.
I'm sure the inquiries will hurt, but the good thing is they were all in a span of like 4-6 weeks so they'll age off together. But my AAoA was hardly affected. It went from 10+ years to about 8.9 years. So still okay. My Merrick was maxed though due to some car repairs and I went on a spending spree with new accounts (I know, I know), but will get my utilization down to under 15% by the end of this month.
It WAS such a rush to see those approvals, even for low limits. But I'm done for now. I hope to get a car this year and get my cards to grow a bit. I've never been interested in owning a home but am thinking I might go for it in about 5 years. I'd love to be over 750 