{"id":148,"date":"2021-02-17T17:02:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T17:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moneylifeandcoffee.com\/?p=148"},"modified":"2021-02-17T17:02:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T17:02:12","slug":"11-credit-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moneylifeandcoffee.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/17\/11-credit-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"11 &#8211; Credit Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>47% of all people have credit card debt &#8211; 48% of those make the minimum payment &#8211; Half DO pay it off!<br>70% of those people who have credit card debt can&#8217;t pay their credit card in a year<br>31% do not use their points or rewards AT ALL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Avoid stupid tax as much as possible. Speeding Tickets, Banking Fees, Penelties, or just misplacing money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.calculator.net\/investment-calculator.html?ctype=endamount&amp;ctargetamountv=1000000&amp;cstartingprinciplev=0&amp;cyearsv=30&amp;cinterestratev=12&amp;ccontributeamountv=500&amp;ciadditionat1=monthly&amp;printit=0\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.calculator.net\/investment-calculator.html?ctype=endamount&amp;ctargetamountv=1000000&amp;cstartingprinciplev=0&amp;cyearsv=30&amp;cinterestratev=12&amp;ccontributeamountv=500&amp;ciadditionat1=monthly&amp;printit=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Investment Calc Link<\/a> &#8211; We use a base of 12% return interest<br>$500 for 30 years turns into $1.5 Million!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>$100 per month after 10 years (or $12,000 total) turns into $22,000.<br>in 20 years (at $100 per month, or $24,000) it turns into $91,000!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Billy story:<br><\/strong>At age 16, Billy gets a job. He saves and invests $5,000 per year in a retirement account. He does this for 10 years, until he is age 25, and then stops. His total contribution to his retirement account is $50,000. He doesn&#8217;t put ANYTHING else in that retirement account &#8211; Ever again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At age 50, Billy has almost $1.5 million. At age 60, that grows to over $4.5 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David gets a great job at 29, and starts seriously investing when he&#8217;s 30 years old. He invests $10,000 a year. If he invests that until he is 50, he will never catch up to what Billy has. Even if he continued until he was 60!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moral of the story: INVEST NOW!<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moneylifeandcoffee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Billy-investment.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-150\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Want to do something really cool for a newborn baby? invest $5000 in a retirement account for them. That will grow to $1.5 million by age 50. <br>$4.5 million at age 60.<br>This is not only life changing, but family tree changing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>47% of all people have credit card debt &#8211; 48% of those make the minimum payment &#8211; Half DO pay it off!70% of those people who have credit card debt &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-show-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneylifeandcoffee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneylifeandcoffee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneylifeandcoffee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneylifeandcoffee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneylifeandcoffee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moneylifeandcoffee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneylifeandcoffee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneylifeandcoffee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneylifeandcoffee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneylifeandcoffee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}