I've already reported on the 2012 cash back categories for Discover and Chase Freedom, and I thought I was done. I'm delighted to report I was not. Yesterday I got an email from FIA Card Services who manages the Fidelity Investment Rewards AMEX. As a reminder, this card already pays you back 2% on every …
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There are 53,058 books on goal setting at Amazon, and my 2012 goal is to read none of them. It's only day 3, and I'm well on my way to succeeding. My only goal is on every page of this blog, that's one million dollars in net worth. I'm about a quarter of the way …
Happy new year and welcome to the Q1 2012 edition of Maximizing What’s in Your Wallet! As a reminder, this post is for all the credit card deadbeats out there looking to maximize cashback rewards. So, if you never carry a balance on your credit cards, have them set to auto-pay in full every month, and want …
I posted on the new 2012 Chase Freedom reward categories last month so I guess it's time to address the ones for the Discover® More Card this week. These 5% cash back categories are a bit more interesting in my opinion. January – March Gas stations – I will still be using the PenFed card. It's the …
I just read an article on Yahoo! that the price of Powerball tickets is set to double on January 15th. As many have already discussed, including me, lottery tickets are a foolish investment that disproportionately affects the poor. Your chances of winning are miniscule. However, according the to article I read, the odds are getting …
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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 …
