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08-18-2006, 08:25 AM
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Ms. Mommysavers
Last Online: Today 11:06 AM
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Southern Minnesota
Real Name: Kim
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We have one main credit card and a backup. I also have an Old Navy card. Balances paid every month.
For those of you who only have ONE card, I do recommend having a backup. Here's why: last year we were victims of credit card fraud. Someone was racking up $3,000, $4,000, $6,000 charges on our card and went over our limit. We had to put a security hold on the card until they could figure out what was going on. It just so happened we were leaving to go to Iceland two days after that, not enough time for them to send us another card (they won't overnight them). So, we were SO glad we had a backup card. We had never even activated it, but all that took was one phone call.
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