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<p><span class="tag">diary</span> <span class="tag">livejournal</span> <span class="tag">fossils</span></p>
<p>As always, there&rsquo;s more to the story than just interest rates that should play into my decision on the card and a possible loan. When I checked to see what a loan would be like in the way of monthly payments at similar or lower interest rates, I forgot to take finance charges into account. My plan before now is to just dump everything I can onto the card so that I don&rsquo;t have to worry about budgeting for food, knowing that that&rsquo;s difficult to do. The problem with this, of course is that finance charges are calculated mostly based on purchases on the card. This is shown by the fact that a three year loan at 5% less interest than I&rsquo;m paying on the card is slightly more than my monthly minimum payment, which I thought was strange considering how long it was taking me to pay off the card, until I realized about half of each payment was going towards finance charges.</p>
<p>So I guess my options are to keep paying off the card at my current rate (not very fast) or take out a loan (not very fast, but certainly more efficient). James would have me take out a student loan, which would have a better interest rate but would make me uncomfortable, never mind my past opinions of his financial advice. I would go with <a href="http://prosper.com">Prosper</a>, which would give me a higher interest rate (still lower than the card), but would fit in more with my ideals and make me feel better for borrowing for the right thing. Nothing&rsquo;s urgent, though, so I have time to research</p>
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