"Perfect 10? Never mind that - ask her for her credit score"

Suzy Favor's credit score is higher than her hourly rate. Unless you go backdoor.

 

The last NY Times trend story I can remember here was about a 5'-0", 125 pound high school kid who obsessed about body building.

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/93722/

 

If you want to be happy for the rest of your life
Ask for a credit score from your future wife
Take it from my personal point of view
Get a high FICO score to marry you

 

Personally, I find this concept quite offensive. I hear where you are coming from, Dick, but as 45 year old woman with a very low credit score that was no fault of my own, I find it a shallow thing to look at. Perhaps it makes sense for someone young, but at my age, when life has thrown shit at a person, I would prefer that someone find out what the circumstances are prior to making such a rash judgement.

IMHO.

 

Steve Guttenberg scene from "Amazon Women on the Moon."

 

At the same time, it's easier to pull yourself out of a bad credit rating when you're younger. And a 20-something may be more willing to wait for a relationship to play out. I would have thought credit rating would make more sense as a factor for a 40-year-old than a 20-year-old, though I can't imagine ever asking anyone about it.

 

If you're in your early 20s and you have a good credit rating, who even wants to know you? It means you've never taken a vacation you couldn't afford or run up a bar tab treating your friends to $100 worth of drinks that will cost you $200 by the time you pay off your credit card. In other words, it means you're no fun.

 

I'm that guy (albeit late 20s now). I ditched credit cards after my junior year of college, when I ran up a bill that I spent way too long paying off. Now, I spend only what I have.

 

And liesl, don't worry -- we've been following you here and there are far more factors that worry/excite us than your credit score.

 

Oh, I used "rough approximation" for a reason. As anyone who has read enough of my posts here knows, there are typically exceptions to the exceptions to my exceptions. In gauging someone's credibility, financial or otherwise, I would think his or her FICO score as a starting rather than an ending point.

 

You're the Master Debater, after all. Nuance is required.

 

You beat me to it: