There are literally thousands of credit cards out there to choose from. You receive offers in the mail, in your email, over the phone, and on the websites you surf to on the Internet. We are all inundated with credit offers, but are all credit card offers worth taking? The answer is a definite no. There are many things about accepting the offer of a credit card you need to know.

How do I know which credit card offers to accept and which ones I should stay away from? If there is one thing consumer advocates and the banking industry do agree on, it is that the abundance of convenient credit gets a lot of people in trouble because they are financially uninformed. Financial education is included in the most recent version of the Bankruptcy Reform Act.

That bill makes it much harder for consumers to bankrupt their unsecured credit card debt when they go into bankruptcy. It would also require credit counseling prior to filing for bankruptcy and instructional courses on personal financial management after bankruptcy.

So the only financial education available comes way too late, since you