A fun craft project for financially-challenged adults

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burn baby burn

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Step 1: Call the 1-800 number on the back of your credit card and cancel your account


Step 2: Standing over the sink, hold the card at a downward angle and light it. It will might not officially catch on fire, but it will burn.

Step 3: Enjoy
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Back in the early '80s there was this idiotic toy called Shrinky Dinks. You colored these little characters, such as Smurfs, with pencils and then got someone's mom to bake them in the oven for 20 minutes. Unamazingly, they turned into this tiny little hardened pieces of plastic and then you were supposed to play with them. Once the baking action was over so was the interest in Shrinky Dinks for everyone involved.

I relived a Shrinky Dink moment this past week and this time it was fun. It took a lot of butane to get it completely warped on one side. My favorite part was calling Chase and speaking to someone in India (of course) who wanted to know, in broken English, why I was cancelling the account and when I said I was trying to get out of debt, she had no response.

I am convinced that the name of this company is Chase because they will chase your ass down after one missed payment.




Comments

cmhl said…
good for you!!! chase is evil and must be destroyed.
4:53 PM
angela said…
BURN! BURN! BURN!
Keep them coming. What's next? Amex?
8:52 PM
Brooks Brown said…
This was a beautiful and cathartic moment.

Next is credit card #1 --Visa through my bank. Another evil monkey, but not as evil as Chase, after that student loans and after that nada,
6:35 AM
Jamie said…
YAY!!! We did that and have been credit card-free for FOUR years (we have the Visa Gold Debit tied to the chekcing account for online shopping and other conveniences, but no real "credit" cards). We never could have built our house or had our babies if we'd kept buying on credit. It's a BEAUTIFUL feeling and you have my whole-hearted congratulations! I say we make a movement and stick it to those who have been sticking it to us for the past 15 years!!!
3:22 PM
Brooks Brown said…
Jamie, that is especially impressive considering you and Rich just moved into that nice house. Did you pay as you went with the construction? I'm just curious. My grandparents built a house in the mid 1950s and paid for the whole thing in cash. It seems unreal that anyone could do that, but incredibley smart. Debt can be depressing and totally overwhelming.
2:15 AM
Jamie said…
We took out a $97K construction loan, which is now our $92K mortgage. So we are by no means debt free, but it's nice to know that with 18months of hard work, we got ourselves $140K worth of equity (the comparable new house next door just sold for $230K), Which makes us much better off than five years ago, when we were suddenly drowning in debt with our first baby on the way.
11:21 PM
Brooks Brown said…
A $92K morgage? I love my city, but the only place selling in that range here is sketchville. Pretty sweet.
1:59 AM
Sara Leah said…
Congrat's Lady. Much more final than keeping your credit cards frozen in a chunk of ice. One night I met a girl at the grill who found while paying out her tab that she had to go home and defrost a card. I went with her. So much fun.
11:06 AM
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