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Today’s Tip: Protect Your Credit Cards’ Magnetic Stripes

Protect Credit Card's Magnetic Strips, store cards front-to-front in your wallet.

Trying to get a credit card reader to register a worn magnetic strip on a credit card at the check out line can be a fiasco. And you know it’s time to spend fifteen minutes getting a new card when when the cashier wraps your card in a plastic grocery bag to try and make it work.

That’s a cool trick, but I think the best way to never have this problem is to never have this problem.

So, store them front-to-front in your wallet, instead of front to back. This will help isolate the stripes—and isolate someone reaching for a shopping bag to get you through checkout.

Mark
Mark is a licensed contractor, tool expert, wood and outdoor enthusiast, and elite Spartan Race competitor. He writes about home improvement and tools for national magazines and websites, and teaches hands-on clinics for other remodeling professionals. Check out his book, The Carpenter's Notebook.
Mark

Mark is a licensed contractor, tool expert, wood and outdoor enthusiast, and elite Spartan Race competitor. He writes about home improvement and tools for national magazines and websites, and teaches hands-on clinics for other remodeling professionals. Check out his book, The Carpenter's Notebook.

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