Credit Card Tarting

Davidmurray48

Thanks Martin for alerting me to this! My son left me deeply in debt on cards with his endless demands for cash (including a £25k bank loan that I took out for him that he never repaid but I will clear in 5 months time). The only way I could give him money was drawing cash on credit cards until they were maxed out - I was £28k in debt when I put my foot down and said no more money. I started tarting going from four cards to getting eight. I knew I could pay £400 a month when I started tarting - pretty stressful at first and I wondered if the transfer fees were more than I’d pay in interest, but I kept tarting as the 0% deals ran out, always leaving four cards with zero balance. Today, after 7 years, I paid £300 and cleared the final card! I have closed them and now have one card linked to my bank account. Thanks for the idea - I fell really relieved today!

Ben8282

How do you link a card to your bank account?
Is there some reason for using the word 'tarting' so many times?
I doubt you were getting 0% deals on the cash advances anyway. You must have been paying 3% cash advance fees and interest from day 1.
Pleased to hear you eventually came to your senses.