Be very very careful with credit cards and avoid them if you can. Paying loan shark interest rates can get you into trouble. Don't spend money you don't have.
I want to see this cancerous economic system abolished! Having said that. Any kind of REWARDS account where you get some benefit besides just what you've purchased, as long as you DON'T run a balance on the account, you get garner some benefit from a rewards account. Any way one can garner some benefit from this cancerous economic system, DO IT!
A DEBIT CARD AND A CHECK BOOK ARE THE BEST WAY TO GO. PAY CASH FOR EVERYTHING.
I will have to read the responses to this question.
Now I know that I am doing the right thing!
the one that is paid off
I use a VISA debit card.
Here are a few examples of rewards accounts: