{"id":5717,"date":"2010-02-08T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=5717"},"modified":"2010-01-27T11:50:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T17:50:19","slug":"frugal-librarian-20-frozen-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/frugal-librarian-20-frozen-credit\/","title":{"rendered":"Frugal Librarian #20: Frozen Credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/frugallibrarian.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1897\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/frugallibrarian-223x300.jpg?resize=146%2C197&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a>Another tip from the new book by NPR personality Chris Farrell, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2231600\" target=\"_blank\"><em>New Frugality<\/em><\/a><\/strong>&#8230; freeze your credit card.\u00a0 No, not do a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.experian.com\/consumer\/security_freeze.html\" target=\"_blank\">security freeze<\/a><\/strong> to prevent people from accessing your credit file, another great idea.<\/p>\n<p>He means take the card out of your wallet or purse and put it in a container full of water.\u00a0 Then give it the ol&#8217; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1226\/869277545_15e31b2913.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Han Solo treatment<\/a><\/strong> in your Frigidaire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em> \u201cPut the credit card away when you\u2019re eliminating debt.\u00a0 One technique is to store the card in the freezer.\u00a0 That\u2019s right, place the credit card in a container of water and stick it in the freezer.\u00a0 You have to wait for it to thaw before you can use it again.\u00a0 It gives you the time to think whether you really want to use it.\u00a0 Yes, the card will work once it\u2019s thawed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another tip from the new book by NPR personality Chris Farrell, New Frugality&#8230; freeze your credit card.\u00a0 No, not do a security freeze to prevent people from accessing your credit file, another great idea. He means take the card out of your wallet or purse and put it in a<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/frugal-librarian-20-frozen-credit\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[364,13,1],"tags":[1039,370,556,1038,379],"class_list":["post-5717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-news","category-news-you-can-use","category-reference","tag-credit-cards","tag-frugal","tag-frugality","tag-reducing-debt","tag-saving-money"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1ud","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5717"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5719,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5717\/revisions\/5719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}