Balance Transfer

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When it comes to money, you need to be prudent. Interest rates are important in any investment tools. Interest rates can increase your capital fast, interest rates also can incur a lot of lost to your money. 

Transfering your money from one place to another, trying to reduce your interest payments — that is 
Balance Transfer. Why balance transfer? You own the banks money, you have lots of credit cards payments arrears, all debts accumulating. Every month you are paying the minimum payments when the bill comes. When you never pay up, the bank calls you. 

One credit card is not cleared, another card is used again. Soon all the credit cards limit is reached and you cannot charge to all the cards. However, you still need to pay for what you own to the credit cards companies. You have no money to pay these cards, but you still need to pay interests. Balance transfer helps you to transfer these money to another source so that you end up paying lesser interest rates. Different companies offer different interest rates. 

Owing money is no peace at all. Every month you need to remember to pay back interests amounts to the banks. If you never pay up, the banks call you, remind you and send you letter too. Sometimes the bank wants to cancel your account, ask you to pay them by a due date. This is no joke to these people who owe the bank money. It is all stress for them. If they cannot pay up, they will be declared bankrupt. So their ‘hobbies’ become a habit of searching for low interest rates balance transfer. On top of that, these people need to constantly look for ways to ‘win’ the credit cards company — they want to have their money to make more money, returns higher than what the credit cards are charging, the 24%! They always want to earn the fastest money and ‘big’ money so that they can repay the credit cards money.

In a way, balance transfer is a good way to save money, it can saves a lot of money indeed! In addition, many banks are competing against one another. Some banks even give you free gifts when you sign up for their balance transfer facility! So in the end, these people are saving money and getting free gifts! Just recently, my husband applies for a balance transfer. After two weeks, he received a letter, asking him to go down to collect his free MP3 player! 

Credit Card Saves

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Credit Card is your good pal which you should not miss out when go shopping.

Credit cards have many advantages. One of the obvious advantages of credit card is cashless transactions. This is obviously very useful when shopping and going dining or just going outdoors. You do not need to think of bringing money with you. You do not need to worry about dropping your cash while outing such as playing sports like tennis, badminton and so on. Even better is when you go jogging. You just need to carry one card in your pocket only!


I was shopping the other day with my children. We went to a shoe shop, Bata. My children need to buy school shoes and I need to get my walking shoes as well. All the shoes are fixed price. There were no discount at the store. However, there is a current discounts going on for special credit card holders -- The salesgirl told me that Standard Chartered Card holder can get a 15% discounts if minimum amount of $50 was spent. I thought it was a very good deal! 

Our items add up to be more than $50. I have no credit card. Luckily my husband has the credit card and we managed to saves. We bought three pairs of shoes and the total cost of the items was about $55. Upon presenting the Standard Chartered Credit Card, we get 15% of the total amount, which was $8.25 off. In the end &46.75 was charged to the credit card. Imagine if we do not have the credit card and we need to pay a amount of $55. But with the credit card, we saves $8.25, which for this amount of money, the children can enjoy two cups of Orange Julius!

Besides cashless transaction and getting discounts, credit card also give you the convenience of cash advance and balance transfer facility. Getting the right credit card is important. Not many cards have special promotion or discounts. Different cards have different benefits and rates too. Check out for credit card offers at Creditcard.org.uk, a UK comparison site for credt cards. They provide up to date information and comparisons of interest rates, rewards, cashbacks etc. 

Credit cards bring you a lot of convenience and can help you to save as you shop. The more you charge with your credit cards, the more you earn rewards and cashbacks. Nowadays, you can even pay your bills by charging to your credit cards too. However, charging your cards, earning loyalty rewards and cashbacks can save you lots of money only if you are using it wisely. Do not misuse your cards and overspend, otherwise the credit card is going to do more harm than good!