# Lending a credit card? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 25, 2009, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lending-a-credit-card/507665 "2009-08-25T18:57:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 18
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lending-a-credit-card/507665/18 "2009-08-26T00:35:14Z")
> [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](#): > > If your nanny has a credit card of her own, you can write her a check for the amount of purchase. She will have the cash from you before the bill comes in. That is how most employers reimburse employees. Yeah, that’d certainly be easiest in many ways. The downside, however, is that if she carries a balance on her credit card, then she’s paying interest on the stuff she buys for me, as well as her own balance. Admittedly it’s not likely to be a huge amount (300-400 dollars), but I really want to make sure she’s not out of pocket. I’m already worried about her trying to argue me out of compensating her for tomorrow (I want to either pay her money, or have her buy an outfit for her own daughter). My tentative plan for the moment is to rush out to the bank first thing in the morning, and get whatever the daily ATM limit is in cash (say 300 bucks) and then have her take the card as well, preferably to use it if she shops at Kohl’s where the card-swiping machine isn’t all that near the cashier. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lending-a-credit-card/507665)._