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View Poll Results: How do you pay for most of your purchases? (clothes, gifts, groceries, etc)
Credit Card 15 25.86%
Debit Card / Interact 35 60.34%
Check / Cheque 1 1.72%
Cash 7 12.07%
Other 0 0%
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Old 02-13-2008, 10:20 AM   #1
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How do you pay for most of your purchases? Not the regular bills, but things like groceries, clothes, gifts, etc.
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Old 02-13-2008, 10:23 AM   #2
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I use my debit visa for nearly everything. When I order things online I do use a reg.cc just to be safe. Usually they are small purchases so I then transfer the money to the cc by online banking.
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I know I'm bad, I use my debit for pretty much EVERYTHING. I almost never carry cash anymore. Its a bad habit I've gotten into and can't get out! Sometimes if I'm not sure of how much I have to spend, I'll use myCC, then pay that when I get home. (I do an instant payment online.)
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We use our check card and cash all the time to pay for purchases. We hardly ever write out checks, it seems like I only order checks about once a year.
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Old 02-13-2008, 10:34 AM   #5
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We never use cash anymore. I will use debit occassionally but with a credit card we get rewards. I make sure to pay the balance every month so it isn't a problem.
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Debit card for me, too. Seems like many stores have the electronic check scanning anyway, so it is quick to use the debit card.
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Old 02-13-2008, 10:39 AM   #7
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Debit card.
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Old 02-13-2008, 10:39 AM   #8
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I use checks all of the time. I have a debit card that we only use when we need a CC type transaction. And we do not have any Credit Cards. If I have cash I will do that too.
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I use the credit card. It lets me earn rewards - like upromise money - and I can keep track of how we are spending our money by using mint.com

I rarely have cash. I only use checks for daycare, garbage service, and DH's haircuts!
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I must be really old-fashioned as i only use cash, i give myself a regular amount each week for shopping, gas etc., i like to see where my/our money is going and makes me think twice (sometimes) about what purchases i make.
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