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Cake day: February 15th, 2024

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  • Iirc, closing an account impacts your credit not because you cancelled your account, but because it impacts your debt/credit ratio.

    You have 2 credit cards. Card A has a 10k credit and 2k balance. Card B has 10k credit and 0 balance.

    So your ratio is 2k/20k or 10%.

    If you cancel card B, your credit line is now 2k/10k, which is 20%. This increases your credit utilization, which impacts your score.

    Opening and closing a bunch of cards without any balance shouldn’t have a significant impact on your score, maybe a few points.

    Hard inquiries can be bad but most credit cards use soft inquiries nowadays anyway