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How much has your credit card limit increased?

For one of our audience members, by about 300 percent.

How much has your credit card limit increased?
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As aggressive banks continue peddling plastic, U.S. credit card debt is set to hit $1 trillion this year, according to the Wall Street Journal.

That number seems to indicate that Americans’ fears about spending are beginning to subside, nearly a decade after the Great Recession. We asked you whether your credit card limits have crept up, and how high. Here are some of your responses:

For some of you, by a significant amount:

Others are proactive about shrinking those limits, or are being strategic about this whole thing: 

One Twitter user doesn’t even have a balance for limits to be an issue. Attn: banks — Don Johnson is onto you.

And some of you are just dipping your toes into this crazy credit card world for the first time: 

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