Recent News
July 6th 2010: Happy Fourth of July a couple of days late. Added articles on Wells Fargo and Huntingon Bank. Hopefully you will find them useful and helpful. Drop me a comment and I'll try and help you out if I can. June 4th 2010: My family has been sick the last few days and it is miserable. We have two young daughters (two and 10 months) and they both had the flu, but they are recovering. In the mean time I have the Orchard Bank and Sony reviews. April 16th 2010: I hope everyone finished their taxes on time. I'm a typical procrastinator and didn't complete mine until April 14th. After I did that I finished two more critiques of HSBC and Secured credit cards. March 29th 2010: Uploaded a couple articles on the Visa Black and Fashion Bug credit cards. I think if someone shops a lot at Fashion bug their card is worth getting, but I'm not sure if the Visa Black card is worth it. February 8th 2010: Congratulations to the Saints on their Super Bowl victory. I completed a couple more reviews; Visa Buxx a prepaid card designed for teens, and a Wachovia card another rewards card for people who have good credit. August 20th 2009: It has been six months since I've added a new review. I apologize for the lack of updates. Today I have completed the Fifth Third Bank and Washington Mutual credit card. The Fifth Third article focuses on their savings and checking account services. February 20th 2009: Another update with a couple new pages; the first is a review of the Sams Club credit cards. Includes general information about the three cards they offer, and the Visa rewards program overview. February 6th 2009: This week I have completed my impression of what the Bank of America credit cards have to offer. I have given a brief review of three of their credit cards. Also included is the Amazon Visa credit card. January 14th 2009: While I am trying to keep the pace of releasing new material every week it's getting tougher and tougher. This weeks edition includes the American Express Gift card and the Walmart Discover card. Until next week. January 7th 2009: Happy New Year! Well I am a little bit late, but what else is new? After much effort I completed the GE Money Bank and GM credit card reviews. Look for our newest update next weeek. December 27th 2008: After I read up on the financial bailout I was shocked to see how some banks including AIG was handling our taxpaying money. I also included the Old Navy credit card, which is a pretty good charge card that you can use at several stores and get a good cashback reward with. December 18th 2008: I hope everyone is having a good holiday season despite the dire economic landscape. Today, I have completed a brief overview of the Chase rewards. I have quite a few updates scheduled for after Christmas. October 13th 2008: Wrote two new articles, the first one is about American Express Rewards and how to choose the right one for yourself. The second one is a review of the Disney card. September 21st: Wow almost a whole month and no updates. A couple of new pages about the Paypal and Home Depot credit cards. August 26th: Alright I just completed a couple more pages; FreeCreditReport.com and the Vanilla Visa. I'm really excited because I think I have found a design I really like. It allows me to do a side by side comparison of the cards and there isn't as much wasted white space. I'm going to be added more improvements in the near future too. August 21st 2008: Finally finished adding two more reviews the Best Buy and Meijer. The Best Buy card is really good except for it's interest rate whereas the Meijer's card isn't as good but is decent if you do most of your grocery shopping at their store. I've been writing a lot of reviews so hopefully they will be up within the week. August 8th: Two new reviews to report finished: Macy's and Kohls. The Kohls card is actually a charge account and not a credit card account. Macy's offers several cards depending on what you are looking for. July 25th: Hot off the presses are two store cards; Gap and Lowe's cards. Both are overviews of a couple cards wrapped up into one article. The Gap article covers both the GapCard and the Gap silver and the Lowes features the standard consumer card and the Project card. We hope you find them helpful when trying to find which card to apply for. July 13th: Two new articles today: Victoria Secret and Target. The Victoria Secret article is a simple review and the Target is an overview of their three cards so it's easy to compare them and choose which one you want to apply for. Also the Target article uses a new design I have been fooling around with. I'm not finished with the new website design yet, but I'm pretty happy with how it's coming. June 26th: Finished two more store cards; JCPenney and Circuit City. I would recommend the Penney's card to people if you are a frequent shopper, but stay away from the Circuit city card. June 17th: Added a review of the Sears, and we will continue to try and update the site at least once a week with new reviews and articles. June 10th: Wrote a review of the WalMart. May 27th: Capital One Card Lab is an article about the new online credit card application from Capital One. I also wrote an article describing the Citi ThankYou Network and its rewards. December 12th: Wrote two new personal finance articles: Place a fraud alert and how to activate a credit card. November 12th: Finished a review of the GreenDot. September 12th: Added more information for: The Nest and The Knot. This information explains how you can use them to save more money on your wedding, and decorating your house using their exclusive coupons and discounts. August 30th:Added four Capital One reviews.