Comments by "" (@johnwattdotca) on "Americans Head Into The Holiday Season With Record Credit Card Debt" video.

  1.  @culturemotived2190  I'm only of Scottish ancestry. We have Christmas to be like other people. I never had a credit card and never borrowed money from my parents, even if they offered. I go Christmas shopping after Christmas, after all the sales are done, Boxing Day, you know it. Used and new, that's when prices are lowest. Christmas began as Christ Mass, a catholic celebration, and I'm anti-catholic. They made up their own god and savior to redefine their empire, that England and then America imitated.
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  2.  @Chad_Max  That's because men are too afraid to open up about their shopping errors.
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  3. Don't worry. You're going to keep on not getting it for the rest of your life.
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  4. What's your problem?
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  5. You have a sad sense of love.
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  6.  @Yourbody_MYCHOICE  Scottish people say pushy people get the best things in life.
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  7.  @ddellwo  You should read what you published and see if you can change your mind. It will help with future financing.
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  8. You must be like New York stock-brokers, who micro-dose meth for intense early morning trades. Living is life. You can live it if you want to. I suggest listening to "Belly Button Window", by Jimi Hendrix. That's about looking out from the womb and not being sure you want to go out there.
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  9. I don't. I never had a credit card or a bank loan. If you have the money use it, make it work for you.
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  10. If all you do is use a credit card for free points, paying on time all the time, not only are you beating the odds you're not using a credit card for how they were designed, taking advantage of the concept of this new plastic as having some plastic in your pocket, what people said back then. Here in Ontario, Canada, I was partially responsible for Rexall losing their "Air Miles" plastic card points program, now called "Be Well", after employees had the same complaints as myself. Those were the first plastic credit cards in America, for airplane flights, now air miles is generic, even offered by a drug store. Now it's links from financial institutions to get points. I only use my card at Rexall, not having any prescriptions, for chocolate bars and snacks on sale, with discount stickers. Using my one bank card as paying, I get Rexall points and the bank gives me four times as much. As a senior with some free transactions each month, I'm getting the points without losing on transactions. You talk points, seniors get the most, even if many senior are computer and plastic card resistant, like me.
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  11. In 1934 Coca-Cola decided to remove the cocaine and use caffeine as a substitute. The advertising described a new economic activity for wealthy, post-war America, getting gifts for free. Coke hired a graphic artist to create this new character, Santa Claus, and he copied a Scottish king wearing his winter red wool overcoat. For Scots, a gift is a talent you are born with.
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  12. If you're American it doesn't make any difference, plastic money or American bills, worth the same.
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  13.  @punapeter  No interest on cash. Is that because you don't trust banks? All American money has the same value because Washington removed the gold standard, now backed by nothing. I hope you understand the authentic definition of the words money and freedom of speech, huge problems for Americans because they're confused by modern technology, when money and freedom of speech was around before there was any form of commercial electricity.
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