Life In Plastic, It's Fantastic?

Written by Frankie Barnet

Three inches long with a thick stripe down the back like a bad dye job, they're named after precious metals and have access to so many of our secrets. How many bags of Skittles did you buy last week? Platinum Plus could tell you in a heartbeat. How about those new shoes? Aventura Gold definitely knows you can't afford them. 

Our credit cards—or credit scores—determine our ability to rent or buy a home, purchase a car, or acquire more credit, leading to more opportunities to prove or disprove our worth as financial human beings. So why not escape the cycle completely, emulate what we've seen so many times in the movies, and just cut the darn thing to pieces? After all, it's just a piece of plastic. We are flesh and blood!