[360MustangScope]

Does your credit really matter after you have a car, house and everything you want? If you default and pay collections, it drops off your credit in 7 years… just in time to buy a new car that would need credit.

If you really need to declare bankruptcy, then that also drops off in 7 years. I knew a coworker that amassed 100k in credit card debt, declared bankruptcy and then in 2 years he had credit cards again from the SAME creditors. Even go a car loan and mortgage shortly after that.

[howard941]

Bankruptcy drops off in 10 years, not 7

[360MustangScope]

Point still stands, it is clearly not as much of a big deal as people make it out to be. Especially in respect to that coworker

[matheusmoreira]

They can't not give credit to people. If they stop doing that, consumption grinds to a halt and thus the economy grinds to a halt. Governments the world over will literally forgive debts, bail out the banks, whatever it takes if the situation gets bad enough. They prefer that to just letting people deal with the consequences. I feel like a sucker paying all these bills. I'm not sociopathic enough to take advantage because that's not the way my father raised me. The feeling never goes away though.