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January 24th, 2015 at 04:11 pm

We are on a roll this week!

I forgot that I have *three* dates with hubby this week. Today we are going to see a show in San Francisco.

Thursday was his volunteer appreciation dinner. He won a nice award, which was a surprise! It's the local public TV station - they always throw a GREAT party. We also managed to score two camping chairs and a New Kindle Fire from the raffle.

I don't know that a new tablet was particularly on dh's wish list, but he is LOVING it. (It's not gentle on the eyes like the e-readers and so it won't scratch his itch to upgrade his old reading Kindle. We did have a fairly old first generation Fire, free with credit card rewards, and so this was a nice upgrade for that. The old one is getting kind of obsolete. I don't know if I can talk him into selling it or purging it or if he can wipe it clean and give it to the kids. It's too bogged down with apps right now. I don't know if a purge of apps would help).

Yesterday I walked into the lunch room around noon and my employer offered me a Panera sandwich and some chips. Guess they didn't need the extra. I was just feeling on a lucky streak - I *love* Panera but rarely spend my own money there.

That is not the end of all the free goodness. My dh was all excited about the Amazon Prime deal today. I was feeling kind of "meh" about it because I see free Prime deals all the time. But I figure I don't really want to get sucked into that. But if we must do it, why not get it for free the first year?

Well, in the mail yesterday I got a credit card offer. $200 cash back PLUS free amazon prime for the first year. Dh agreed that was a much better deal! (I've seen the credit card deals before but didn't want to encourage him. Though actually I think the deals I have seen were usually "just" Amazon prime. I don't know if I would bother with a credit card reward for less than $200. So this was much more up my alley. Talk about timing!).

I looked it up and the snail offer was much better than the general bonus right now. But, you can get $50 and free prime. The offer I got was for the everyday card. The preferred card (also in the link) has a $75 annual fee. Of course, there may be other free amazon prime deals out there - I have seen them around.

Text is https://www304.americanexpress.com/credit-card/compare/blue-cash/26129?PID=15-11985040-1334965-18220_A10003876619&BUID=CCG&PSKU=BCE&CRTV=BCESBSP&CID=908111 and Link is
https://www304.americanexpress.com/credit-card/compare/blue-...

3 Responses to “Free Lunch”

  1. FrugalTexan75 Says:
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    I had a couple cc offers in the mail recently for Prime +bonus money. One was for $100 and the other for $200 I think. I was tempted, but I think they required $2k spending in 3 months. Just can't swing that.

  2. rob62521 Says:
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    My Discover card recently sent me something that if I spent $2000 for the next few months they would give me $300 after that period. I rarely spend that kind of money to begin with and I use my card for groceries, shopping, etc.

  3. VS_ozgirl Says:
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    Most tablets have an option in their settings where you can adjust the brightness which makes it easier on the eyes

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