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Back to the Basics: What is Credit?

I know we have been talking about money, loans, and finances in general since the beginning but have you ever really thought about what credit is? It is quite a broad term which covers any sort of arrangement wherein you receive money, products, or services wherein you don’t have to pay outright. Instead, you reach an agreement with the other party that you would pay at a later date.

With this in mind, you will realise that credit covers credit cards, personal loans, store credit, payday loans, cash advances, and more.

On the part of the lender, they need certain safeguards to ensure that they will get their money back. This differs from lender to lender and loan to loan. For secured loans, you need to put up collateral in the form of property. For payday loans, it is basically your next pay check. This is perhaps one of the advantages of payday loans and cash advances – you don’t need to put your property at stake to borrow money.

So why do we take on credit? I think the answer is fairly simple – we borrow money or use our credit cards simply because we do not have enough cash on hand to make a purchase. Another scenario is making online purchases which do not, by nature, involve cash. Yet another scenario, most applicable to payday loans, is when we experience irregularities in cash flow.

The concept is simple, isn’t it? Yet here is the most important idea of them all. When it comes to credit, you have to remember that you have to pay it back – plus interest or fees. It is convenient but it comes at a price. So again, be a wise borrower and keep your line of credit clean.