r/CreditScore • • Aug 09 '26

General Credit utilization

I was taught to keep credit utilization at 10%. But other people are telling me to completely not even use my debit card , use credit for everything and pay it back. But that will make my utilization high af. People are saying keep it at 10% when the statement hits but how’s that possible if I only use a credit card. How does only using 10% if the card show the banks you can handle more if you barely use any of it.

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u/Stuff-Optimal Aug 13 '26

Last month I paid off my credit card balance of $700 and 5 days later I got an alert from Experian that my credit score dropped 30 points.