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Rewards & Spending

March 19th, 2018 at 06:57 pm

In the last week, as I have paid our credit cards in full, I found that two of them had rewards I could redeem. I redeemed $22.11 in cash from our Chase Freedom account. We have been using that card for fuel, cable, phone (Ooma) and Netflix purchases this quarter to earn 5% cash back.

Our American Express card had earned another $25 in rewards. This is applied as a statement credit, but I did put that same amount towards our Big Goal.

Today was a little spendy! My husband is home from work while our daughter visits. We ran to Target to pick up a sympathy card, light bulbs, shaving cream and packing tape. We decide to make this our day out to each lunch. We will eat at home the next few days, with more eating out to celebrate her birthday later in the week. And finally, we picked up some hair product our daughter uses from Ulta (did have a coupon). That was $83 of spending! I'm glad I added extra to our budget accounts.

My husband is going to get the oil changed in my van tomorrow. We have been saving for car maintenance, so no worries about finding cash for that! We are set.

Tonight I'm making

Text is this and Link is https://www.budgetbytes.com/2017/09/lemon-garlic-asparagus-pasta/
this for dinner. Some of us will add chicken. I'm also going to use some hamburger buns to make a garlic bread. I've made that recipe with green beans instead of asparagus with good results...even more frugal.

3 Responses to “Rewards & Spending”

  1. rob62521 Says:
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    Good job on paying off the credit cards and now the pleasure of redeeming the rewards.

    What time did you say supper was? It looked delicious from the site you shared.

  2. FrugalTexan75 Says:
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    Darn it! I didn't think about Netflix counting for the 5%!

  3. Amber Says:
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    Way to go on the points, I just cashed out myself, but I only had $12, lol.

    The lemon asparagus sounds delicious

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