Yesterday I got another piece of bad news from PenFed. They are reducing the cash back on my favorite card, PenFed VISA Platinum Gas / Cash Rewards Card, again! Make no bones about it I love this card for one thing and one thing only – GAS. I even wrote a whole post about it. Luckily, …
As I looked back over all the net worth posts of 2011, I have to acknowledge that it was a rough year. There's just no getting around it. A lot of things went wrong for my family that impacted us financially. Most of those were beyond our control. I wrote a nice post a while …
Chase Freedom has announced their 5% cash back categories for 2012. There's really nothing surprising in this list though. Here they are along with my thoughts: January – March Gas stations – I will still be using the PenFed card. It's the same reward level, and I like credit unions better than big banks. Amazon.com – …
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November kind of sucked. My son was sick…again. I was sick…again…twice. The house down the street sold for a ridiculous price per square foot because of their carpeted garage and dragged the Zillow estimate on my home down almost $10k causing unnecessary distortion in my net worth. I'm whiny and sleepy tonight, but let's get …
Let me start by saying my wife hates shopping. I, on the other hand, love it. I rarely make purchases, but I actually love the environment and people watching. So what did I do on Black Friday? I stayed up Thursday night until the Black Friday deals hit on Amazon and other websites, and …
You should have the Chase Freedom card, especially as a new applicant since you'll be eligible for the $200 bonus promotion! But, don't just take my word for it. Let's consider this card objectively: ADVANTAGES Consistently shows up in my quarterly list of credit cards to maximize the cashback you can be earning from credit cards (Q4 …
Hey readers, This just in from Amazon.com – If you are a carrier of the Amazon VISA, they're offering 10 points for every $1 you spend on all digital downloads. That's a pretty good deal…even better than buying Amazon gift cards at grocery stores with your AMEX Preferred card to get 6% back that I noted in …
UPDATE: THIS CARD IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR NEW CARD MEMBERS As I've noted in multiple posts, I have been mourning the death of the Schwab Invest First VISA program which officially ended on Oct. 31. It was a great card that I ended up replacing with the Fidelity Retirement Rewards AMEX. It offers 2% …
The theme for October is definitely: "Give Me Some Booty" My pirate son scored last night by generating well over 50 pieces of booty from the Pleasantville suburb down the road. Any activity that gets a 5 year old to repeatedly work on learning to add and subtract is good by me. Plus, I get …
