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6. Or the corporations can start charging annual fees, again, to use their cards. Back

Tue Jan 13, 2026, 07:30 PM

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in the mid-70s, as a single female, I could not get a credit card without a card-holder's co-signature. Most card holders were males. I had a fulltime job as a journalist but that didn't matter. My boss, a male, co-signed for me...as long as it had a fee... so I paid $30/yr for my first card. Paid that for years until cards started accepting female customers. Finally got another card that didn't have an annual fee in the early 1980s.

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