Report: 5 purchases you shouldn’t make with a debit card

In recent years, amid the enormous credit card debt levels engulfing the Western world, the trend has been for consumers to use their debit cards instead of their credit alternatives. Although this move does have good intentions, using a credit card comes with various benefits, but only if you pay off the balance immediately and not carry one into the new month paying enormous interest rates.

With that being said, a new report released by GoBankingRates suggests that there are five purchases you should never make with a debit card. Here they are:

1. Online purchases

2. Gas

3. Hotels

4. Large purchases

5. Dubious places (convenience store, no-name ATM, random restaurants)