Keeping a credit card open for a decade or longer quietly reshapes your credit profile, your day to day money habits, and even the way lenders size you up. The plastic itself may look the same, but ...

If you've had a given credit card for a decade or more, you might want to keep holding onto it for old times' sake -- but there's a good financial reason to keep it, too. Sure, there are some ...

A lot of people open their first credit card in their early 20s and then… never really think about it again. Years pass, new cards come and go, but that original account just keeps aging nicely in the ...