**I am proud of dh - he is on top of things! He closed his AmEx, since we got our free gifts.
Dh said that AmEx said, "You are closing it already? After only a couple of months?" Dh truthfully said, "It's been kind of a PITA - a lot of people don't take AmEx." They tried to argue otherwise, but our first full of month of the Fidelity AmEx, I can tell you at least 20% of the businesses we tried to pay, did not take it! Not any small businesses. Not any utilities. Etc., etc. Not the parking garage. Not the haircut place.
I suppose I will wait for my Target gift card (reward) and then close the Chase Freedom. Will be closed by year-end.
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**One of the AmEx rewards was a $100 Amazon gift certificate.
For the work gift exchange I pulled a difficult name. Our office is 90% women, but I always get stuck buying for the men! No idea what to get. Decided to get a Amazon G.C. if I can. Will be free to me.
I also have not been able to find Pantene anti-dandruff shampoo any longer. I finally looked it up today - discontinued! To top it off, all they have is the shampoo/conditioner combo. A stylist recently suggested I not use the combos, to keep my hair less greasy. I hadn't thought of it and can't say I have noticed a big difference. (Actually, that was a year ago!) But I have noticed more dandruff cropping up since I have been using another shampoo in the interim.
Anyway, there are still some available, so I will stock up on a few bottles. Will probably last forever, and maybe by then they will bring back the anti-dandruff. I'll see if alternating it with other shampoo helps at all. It looks like there is other stuff out there, but I am partial to my Pantene!
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**A charity is coming by for pick up on Friday. I have a few things (not a huge purge), but will be nice to get rid of the stuff I missed last time.
Wednesday Doings
December 9th, 2010 at 02:08 am
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December 10th, 2010 at 11:40 pm 1292024457
WS-I have never had an AmEx before because of this, but everyone kept telling me it's different these days. May be better, but a long ways to go!
We lucked out because our health insurance accepts AmEx payment for premiums. Will earn some serious rewards with that part. So might make up for the $300 or so in visa charges (we get 1% cash back on both our visas).
December 10th, 2010 at 11:41 pm 1292024511
December 11th, 2010 at 02:38 am 1292035084
I only know about that because of Swagbucks.
Are you members of Costco? The only credit card they take is AMEX.
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