2016 TALLY:
$208 Cash (Barclay Card, Moi)
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$208 TOTAL *ONE-TIME REWARDS*
Other Rewards:
**Various monthly rewards that I will tally at 12/31.
I expect this to be a slow year.
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I am not sure what I will do with the $208. I charged up $500 insurance and already received a $208 statement credit (before a statement was even issued). The thing is I usually charge this bill around now (on May billing cycle) and would pay off June 1. So in the end, I don't get the benefit until June when my bill will be $208 less than usual. (In the meantime, I will probably be pre-paying this bill in May).
I'd like to just throw the $208 into our investments. But I expect I will be paying airfare in June (around $2,000). So I wouldn't be surprised if I'd rather have the $208 for that expense.
Will see...
I know I am long overdue for a blog update. Where I am at with things is work finally slowed down. Today I can breathe! I am just slowing my pace and letting it all sink in. Tomorrow I will just work a half day. The following weekend I will be able to take a 3-day weekend.
Oh, and I will have a huge savings update this weekend. Which is the flip side of being so busy. Lots of money being saved...
We are already thinking of many ways to spend down our money. Blog posts for another day. But we are moving forward with a planned home improvement. Work we did plan to do this spring or summer. It feels pressing though because it's long overdue and we are so flush with cash. The thing about home improvements is I really have no idea how much they cost. But if it's not too terrible, we are thinking of moving an unpractical wish list home improvement item up to our current to-do list. I guess the stars just seem to be aligning with that. But again, it depends how much it cost. If it's more than I expect, then it can go on the impractical wish list for another decade. Will see. I guess we may be moving it up the list significantly just long enough to get some quotes. Will see how we feel about it from there.
I am sure I will shortly have time to bore you with all of the details of all of the above. That is the short version, for now.
2016 Rewards Update
April 28th, 2016 at 05:58 pm
April 29th, 2016 at 02:06 pm 1461935199