So, technically, I’m “Generation X”. Yes, I’ve been on the internet since 1995. Yes, I wore all the hip 90’s clothes, listened to all the hip bands, hell I was a Scenester before it was Passè. But I digress...
All these years I never opened a line of credit. Heck I never even owned a credit card!! I mostly eschewed banks as well, sticking to cash and online payment systems during since their inception. So essentially.. I have no credit!
As a grown adult, it was starting to be kind of a pain. Kind of embarrassing. On one hand I never had to deal with the woes of financing and monthly payments like most of my friends. On the other, I had to basically save and buy everything up front. And could not do things that required credit checks. Like, signing for an apartment lease.
Enter this app. It’s teaching me how to responsibly make payments without “The Man” watching over. And it’s so,so much way cooler than Fingerhut (which if you are my age you know what I mean).
So thanks, this app, for making me choose my financial decisions more carefully and responsibly, and for not putting the ol’ credit score ball and chain on me. I’ve been able to make purchases that I genuinely needed, which would of been not possible otherwise. And yeah, a few purchases of stuff that I totally didn’t really need.
But hey.. they are paid off.