So I have to be honest … I have no credit cards. I don’t even have an emergency one. My wife and I made a firm decision several years ago to close all of our cards, take our licks on the credit reports, and just move on paying cash for everything. Well, paying with our debit card for everything.

Recently, though, I needed to quickly get a card to move some money from an old student loan that somehow started to accumulate interest. I guess it’s the beauty of not staying on top of the paperwork, or having spam filters enabled, or whatever the hell happened. They just decided to jack up my rate after “contacting me several times”, and I have no time to fight them.

So first I checked out Jon on My Money Blog. He frequently posts about great credit card and balance transfer deals. Then I went to Compare The Market in order to compare credit cards and credit card offers they have available.

Compare The Market allows you to do some pretty nifty comparisons of pretty much anything … from 0% balance transfer offers to home insurance.  The site is clean, fast, and laid out well.  Give them a click!