"Philip Sondericker" wrote in message
...
in article , John Harlow at
wrote on 12/29/03 6:35 AM:

Not all of us own airplanes, you know. I'd probably start by paying
off the credit card I maxed out just getting my license.

Yikes!

It wasn't quite as bad as it sounds--the license cost me 5 grand, and
about
half of that I managed to pay in cash.


Not for me. I hate paying interest. I put my lessons on my credit card but
I make sure I will be able to pay it off at the end of the billing cycle.
Credit cards are nice, but have the potential of being very evil. I have
several of them but always pay off their balances every month.

As much as I would love to just go nuts and fly as much as possible to speed
up getting my license, but I just hate paying interest. I don't think I
have paid interest on anything for over two years now. Anything I finance
needs to be interest free for the first 3, 6, what ever months and I need to
be confident that I can pay it off in that amount of time or I won't do it.

And yet, I pay the "stupidity tax" from time to time when the PowerBall
jackpot starts getting up there.