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The Person With the Most Active Credit Cards in the World

Three men held over a thousand credit cards (and stayed debt-free)

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Daniel Ganninger
Oct 22, 2025
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When is the number of credit cards a person has too many? Two, three, or four? What about over a thousand credit cards in your name? Three men did just that and broke a record that seemed incomprehensible.

The first man to gain notoriety and a place in the record books for the most credit cards was Walter Cavanagh, who was known as “Mr. Plastic Fantastic…

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