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How to Check and Manage Your Credit Score for Free
People also incorrectly assume that checking your credit score lowers it—this is partly true. When applying for a loan or another open line of credit, creditors check your score to see if you are a viable candidate. This can penalize you and impact your score. Inquires made by you are not shown to creditors and will not lower your score.
In fact, it’s essential to know what your score is, because it can change at any time, and it impacts so many different areas of your life. Not paying your bills or making delinquent payments lowers your score and makes you undesirable to credit companies and advertisers. By consistently managing your score, you take the control back from creditors by knowing exactly how much you qualify for when it’s time to take out a loan or open a new line of credit.
Many companies have figured out ways to charge consumers for reporting on their credit scores. But, there is no reason to pay for this service as everyone has a right to this information, free of charge.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger takes a trip out in his green car
In 2006 he gave up six of his seven Hummers, thought to be worth around a million dollars, in a bid to work towards saving the environment.
He kept just one of the them, which he then converted to run as a hybrid vehicle.
'They are hydrogen engines and bio-fuel engines and one is being changed into an electrical engine,' Schwarzenegger noted to The Telegraph about his former fleet of green-friendly vehicles on a visit earlier this year with the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium.
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Kitson calls for boycott of Today
LA boutique Kitson has called for a boycott of the Today show after a co-host told viewers not to shop there any longer.
The store came under fire in August for selling T-shirts emblazoned with the names of the prescription drugs Adderall, Vicodin and Xanax, merchandise which Tamron Hall called 'irresponsible' in a Today show segment, adding: 'People should probably not shop there until they get that out.'
In a post on the company Facebook, Kitson has accused Ms Hall of 'judging the merchandise without due diligence' and '[practicing] irresponsible journalism by voicing a negative, personal opinion regarding our business', asking that its customers 'seek an alternative' to the morning show.
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