{"id":1893,"date":"2007-02-21T02:20:59","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T02:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/02\/credit-debit-pin-oh-my.html"},"modified":"2007-02-21T02:20:59","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T02:20:59","slug":"credit-debit-pin-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/02\/credit-debit-pin-oh-my.html","title":{"rendered":"Credit, Debit, PIN, Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I got back from New Orleans, I saw that Kris had laid out a new credit card for me to use. On our walk Friday morning, I asked if that card was a new credit card &#8212; to which she said, &#8220;No, Scot, that is a new debit card.&#8221; Well, I asked, &#8220;What is a debit card?&#8221; Kris said&#8230; <!--more|inline--><br \/>\nTo make a long story short, it got way too involved. I said, &#8220;You don&#8217;t need to go on; I&#8217;ll not use it anyway.&#8221;<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve never in my life used a debit card and don&#8217;t know the difference between a credit and debit card. I&#8217;ve gotten along quite well &#8212; thank you &#8212; for 53 good years without a debit card and I&#8217;m thinking I&#8217;ll be fine without one. Kris explained how she gets cash (which is as good as money, to quote Yogi) at the grocery store by using debit card, and I explained how I get cash: I get it in the little pocket of money she makes available to me at home. So, I thought, I don&#8217;t need a debit card for cash &#8212; I&#8217;ve got access to cash. Who needs a debit card for cash when you&#8217;ve got that little pocket of cash in the drawer?<br \/>\nThen Kris got to thinking about giving me a debit card. She began to think that if I used a debit card for cash, I&#8217;d surely forget to inform her and then something bad would happen &#8212; maybe the bank would call about mischievous funds disappearing. By the time our walk was over, Kris had come to a firm conclusion: keep the debit card away from me and we&#8217;ll all be better off.<br \/>\nWhat do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I got back from New Orleans, I saw that Kris had laid out a new credit card for me to use. 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