This kind of thinking is a fugazi. Most people (yes even you, who pays off the card every month) are bad with money. Credit cards reduce the friction between any given transaction. This will cause you to spend more money than you would have otherwise. Generally by much more than the 2% rewards your card offers. If you are actually receiving 8k back then you’re spending like $400k per year.
Nobody got wealthy by using credit cards. The “free money” is a cheap psychological trick. I don’t have the hubris to think I’m better at resisting unnecessary spending than the marketing department at Visa who wants every extra dollar in my wallet.
What many people find, after falling into the “but I fully pay my card each month” trap, is that turning off the card after this point is difficult with their current income, because they have effectively pushed their real wages a full month into the future. Depending how heavily you’re into credit it can take several months to build up a cushion to avoid dipping into emergency funds to cut the cards for good.
Nobody got wealthy by using credit cards. The “free money” is a cheap psychological trick. I don’t have the hubris to think I’m better at resisting unnecessary spending than the marketing department at Visa who wants every extra dollar in my wallet.
What many people find, after falling into the “but I fully pay my card each month” trap, is that turning off the card after this point is difficult with their current income, because they have effectively pushed their real wages a full month into the future. Depending how heavily you’re into credit it can take several months to build up a cushion to avoid dipping into emergency funds to cut the cards for good.