美國一男子狂辦上千張信用卡且從不欠賬

Most people have to reach for the same credit card when standing at a till paying for purchases in a store. But Walter Cavanagh from California can choose to use one of the 1,497 cards that he owns, which are worth $1.7m, and make him a record breaker.

大部分人在商店櫃檯結賬的時候都使用同一張信用卡，但是來自美國加利福尼亞的沃爾特·卡瓦納可以從他1497張信用卡中任選一張結賬。這些信用卡總額度爲170萬美元,這也使得他成爲了打破紀錄的人。

Walter Cavanagh, 73, from Santa Clara, started collecting the cards as a bet with a friend in the 1960s to see who could collect the most in the space of a year.

沃爾特·卡瓦納今年73歲，來自聖克拉拉市。他收集信用卡的習慣源自上世紀60年代跟一位朋友的賭注，他跟朋友打賭看在一年之內誰收集的信用卡多。

He quickly acquired a stash of 143 and even collected a number of limited edition cards such as a sterling silver card from Mapes Hotel.

之後他很快就收集到了143張信用卡，甚至他還收集到了許多諸如梅普斯酒店的純銀卡之類的限量版信用卡。

In 1971, a friend contact Guinness World Records, and he was named as the man with the most credit cards.

在1971年，他的一個朋友聯繫到了吉尼斯世界紀錄，於是他也得到了世界上擁有最多信用卡的人這一稱號。

And every year since, he has been in the record books as he continued his collection, as he was determined to stay as the world record holder.

從此之後，爲了下決心保持住這個記錄，他就一直在收集信用卡。

His credit score is nearly perfect, as he actually only uses one card and pays it off monthly.

值得一提的是，沃爾特的信用分數近乎完美，因爲他只用其中的一張卡，而且每月都會還清。