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Sometimes you have to wonder how we ever existed without the credit card. Unfortunately, if you cancel your American Express credit card like I did, it means you cannot have access to certain services you may have taken for granted. Without that credit card, I was unable to join the local gym, to order t-shirts off of the Internet, to reserve a plane ticket online – and that is just a few of the basics. Not that many years ago, people preferred cash to credit, but not now.

We never stop to ask ourselves when using our American Express credit card globally whether or not we need or can afford what we are buying it has become so commonplace. Although American Express credit cards are a really convenient way to make a purchase – get it now and worry about it tomorrow – it does come at a heavy cost. Money owed to credit card companies is increasing everywhere. Today, credit card debt is one of the biggest worries facing us in America.

After considering this I decide to get rid of my American Express credit card at least for the present. The problem was it was too easy just hand over my card and buy things without seeing the money being spent. Before too long as the spending started to spiral out of control I had to admit that I had been charging everything to my card irrespective of what it was. The debt became too great for me to pay and I didn’t know what to do.

It took a debt consultancy specialist to finally get me back into a position where I actually started to pay my debt off. It’s not something I ever want to repeat. It took some time but the American Express credit card has gone and so has my debt. Many people would think me unfair about blaming a credit card but they need to understand something about people first.

I was more conscious of the cost of things when I paid for goods in cash. As I said before, credit cards make the cost of things misleading because you don’t take any notice. I could spend money like water, and before I knew it, it was all gone. It’s difficult getting yourself into a debt problem if you don’t have an American Express credit card to start with.