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Cleaning up the sock drawer

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Cleaning up the sock drawer

Today I finally closed the last of the credit builder cards.  I am at a point where I have comfortable enough limits that I no longer need the Capital One secured or the Credit One AF card.  The Best Buy card is my oldest card at 12 years, so I am keeping it around for nostalgia and to help with the account age formula for as long as possible.  Every other card offers some kind of reward and I want to keep all of them for the long haul.  If you told me two years ago I would be in this financial shape today I would not have believed it!  At the time I had a $500 CL Best Buy store card and a $300 secured card from Capital One in my wallet and I felt blessed for the Capital One.  I don't think I could have gone from there to having over $15,000 in revolving CL plus a mortgage and auto loan without the help of this forum.  Thank you all for being here!

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Meanmchine
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Re: Cleaning up the sock drawer

Major congrat !!

>3/2016 EX 644 CK-TU 642 CK-EQ 660 WalMart- 671.
>7/2025 All 3 reports 830 - 845(F8) F9s = all 850 but my app finger is still twitching
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SOGGIE
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Re: Cleaning up the sock drawer

Super congrats on your accomplishments!

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother, rather than all major credit cards. ~Robert Orben
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Shadowfactor
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Re: Cleaning up the sock drawer

Good job keep up the good work.




Total Revolving Limits $254,800

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Anonymous
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Re: Cleaning up the sock drawer

Congrats !!!!!!

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RonM21
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Re: Cleaning up the sock drawer

Big Congrats to you. There is something about coming to these forums feeling like your credit is in dire stress, and then being able to report on the same boards as on of the success stories!



Total CL: $321.7kUTL: 2%AAoA: 7.0yrsBaddies: 0Other: Lease, Loan, *No Mortgage, All Inq's from Jun '20 Car Shopping

BoA-55k | NFCU-45k | AMEX-42k | DISC-40.6k | PENFED-38.4k | LOWES-35k | ALLIANT-25k | CITI-15.7k | BARCLAYS-15k | CHASE-10k

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Anonymous
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Re: Cleaning up the sock drawer

Congrats! You've come a long ways and got rid of crap you don't need!
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K-in-Boston
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Re: Cleaning up the sock drawer

As the old ad said, "You've come a long way, baby."  Congrats!

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