I got a note from Chase that if I spend $2k each month, April/May/June that they will give me a bonus $25 in cash rewards. (I round up to $30 since I usually wait to $200 to redeem an extra 25%).
Anyway, we put about $1300 on the card monthly (well, ideally - that is the budget for regular expenses) and often hit $2k during certain time of year (random one-time expenses and such). BUT I doubted it was worth $30 to try to hit in 3 months in a row. I told dh jokingly, asking if there was anything he wanted to buy. There wasn't. HE mentioned it didn't seem worth it. Well duh.
We have a few electonic purchases in mind, but end of the year is the time to buy, and prices will no doubt come down much lower than by $30, if we wait...
I did tell him that if we got the emergency room bill ( never got a bill yet!?!) that I just received word that I could card it. So maybe if we got in sometime before May, would help.
Likewise, we have our big vacation in May and $2k will be no prob.
So we pondered what we could do for June. Of course, now it looks like we may go camping and the fee is a few hundred dollars.
So may just earn another $30!!
Of course, I had kind of forgotten about this since I have not received this medical bill yet. (Phew, since gives me more time to save for it).
Anyway, I recieved my state CPA society dues notice yesterday and it was almost $500. My boss reimburses me, but I always card it for rewards. Woohoo. I'll have to look at the due date and push the payment to June if possible. But I can pay it in April if the medical bill doesn't materialize. Maybe I can push the medical payment to June.
Who knows. I think I have some other dues coming up and some other things I can prepay a bit.
I'll have to keep that in mind and juggle some things around.
Actually, we can also buy our Disney tickets in April, so that might be a wise move too. Spread out some of the costs. We can pay for everything else in May (gas, food, other activities. We won't pay lodging so not a lot of other expenses, now that I think about it).
But yeah, this will take a little strategy!
Extra $30?
March 28th, 2008 at 07:28 pm
March 29th, 2008 at 12:27 pm 1206793660
March 29th, 2008 at 02:25 pm 1206800732
Beleive me, we card everything for rewards.
March 29th, 2008 at 02:38 pm 1206801486