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A recent survey indicates that just 61 percent of millennials have at least one credit card. This makes some sense given that new laws about marketing credit to people under the age of 21 have gone into effect in recent years. But now that most millennials are in their young adulthood, we should expect to see those number rise in the coming years. At least I hope so!

Credit cards get a bad name and it's not entirely undeserved. Some credit is designed to get people caught up in a never ending cycle of borrowing and repayment. We all know someone buried in debt, with little hope of ever digging their way out. Having grown up in the post-Recession world, many millennials are paranoid about taking on debt of any kind.

The thing is, some debt is necessary to build the kind of financial life that most of the readers of this post will want to have. One of the best ways to move in this direction is to have one or more credit cards. Doing so can help you in the following ways.

1. You need credit to borrow money in real life situations. There are some financial advisers in pop culture (who will remain unnamed) who recommend that their listeners never get a credit card at all. Instead, these talking heads talk about the power of cash and spin stories about buying new cars with briefcases of big bills. Almost nobody can live out this fantasy. Most of us start with very little money and very little income. To make necessary purchases in life (a car, a house, a business expense), we'll have to borrow.

Unless we've demonstrated to creditors that we have the ability to pay our debts back responsibly, we'll be unlikely to find a lender to give us money. Those that do give us a loan will likely charge us very high interest rates, just in case we don't pay back the loan. After all, we have no credit history to show that we're honest and trustworthy with borrowed money. A credit card is a simple way to show that you can handle a little bit of credit. You don't have to spend more money just because you have a credit card. Open the account, use it, pay it off quickly, never carry a balance if you can help it and you'll start to build immaculate credit which will result in cheaper money for those times when you absolutely need to borrow.