A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads. In this week's edition we had a deep freeze, we kicked off Doggo's Gotcha Day celebrations, and STOP THE PRESSES I FOUND THE MOST AMAZING DINNER THAT YOU NEED TO DROP EVERYTHING AND MAKE RIGHT NOW.
From what I understand, the credit card industry has a name for people like me: a deadbeat. I use credit cards for convenience and pay my bill in full each month. They don't make any money off me.
For most of my adult life, I had a very simple credit card setup of always more than one card and never more than three. Prior to the fall of 2022, my lineup was: Amazon, Target, and Costco. $0 fees, 5% back at Amazon and
Target, and lesser percentages for all other spending. The reason that the fall of 2022 is significant is because this is when I started traveling, and a lot of credit card rewards are specifically for travel.
I kept hearing about Credit Card Hacking, and claims like "I got a $40,000 trip for free" and "my family gets $15,000 in free credit card travel every year!" Was I missing out? How exactly would I go about getting my mitts on the goods?
This is the story of what happened when I decided to find out.
A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches and reads. The big news of this week is that I encountered my first ever IRL two legged carrot. And that's kind of all there is to say about that.
Today's post is a blatant steal of Stephany's Best of 2024: A Month by Month Recap, with a nod to Elisabeth's Want to Write a Book with Me This Year?
Each month Elisabeth wrote a chapter title to summarize the month, and Stephany used the chapter titles that she left in the comments each month to write her annual recap. Let's do this!
