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Are there other reasons to either pay attention to or ignore your credit score? Craig credit monitoring Binghamton is a fulltime missionary in Papua New Guinea who writes Money Help For Christians credit monitoring Binghamton and Help Me Travel Cheap, a frugal family travel blog. He is the author of credit monitoring Binghamton Money Wisdom From Proverbs, has a Masters of Divinity degree, and (most importantly) eats homemade credit monitoring Binghamton pizza with his family every Friday night. 12 comments read them below or add one I use Credit Karma as well to keep up with my credit score.

But I only try to check it once every couple months. It wont change very much during that time, and I dont want to obsess over it.

Obsessing will cause you to open a bunch of accounts you dont need and do crazy stuff to try to get that score up.

I do; however, strongly recommend checking your credit report each year.

The main reason is to check for any errors or signs that someone might be opening accounts in your name. My wife and I dont borrow money so Im waiting for my score to get to a point where it doesnt exist anymore. find credit report If you look at a different company each time (Experian, EquiFax, Transunion) you can get a report every four months only using your free anual check. I find it helpful and the first time I credit monitoring Binghamton did it a little over a year ago I found a few errors. I found credit monitoring Binghamton out quickly upon moving away for college that having no credit history at all is a bad thing.

One bank wouldnt even let me open a checking account. So I got a credit card from the bank credit monitoring Binghamton Ive used since I was 13. I several more month I hope to get a rewards card and use that instead.

Im signed up with CreditNotify, which gives me a free report every year (detailed with score).