But to keep shopping for cards - I hate to have so many opening and closing credit cards on my credit. When they cross me, I just inform them that I won't be using their card anymore...that it will be stored safely at the back of the file (or whatever) and never carried or used....just to let them know it is unlikely I will ever be using them. I rather think that the average joe customer service really does not care much. Maybe it would get their attention if one was to drop the 'approved amount from 5, 10, 20, or 50 K down to say $500...and then stick it in drawer. It seems they really want to give us some money (debt) yet aren't willing to give folks even with super credit rating, super rates. I just checked and my Discover (the only one I regularly use and always pay off each month) has a rate of 17.49% for purchases, and 22.99% for cash advances. Sheesh...Let's revolt! I think I'll call now and ask that they remove that cash advance option....suggesting for security reasons. That rate is outrageous. When I checked a score (it wasn't FICO but some other name and scale) a year or so ago, it said my score was 98.5...only 1.5 away from being 100 percent perfect. Shouldn't that warrant a pretty decent rate? Sue

sorry about it being sideways but i am still getting the knack of posting pictures here....(sad grin).....computers were always science fiction to me before.

here is another one inspired by carol duvall show Image link:

You can register with BM and they will send you as many sample sheets as you want. Don't even charge for shipping. Cannot tell you how much $$ this has saved me in sample sizes. I get multiples of the same color and tape them together to get a large area to move around the room. Sometimes I will end up buying a couple samples sizes of the actual paint if I'm undecided between 2 colors after doing this, but much better than the many, many sample sizes I would have to buy before. Here is a link that might be useful: Color samples - will need to register