Archive for the ‘credit cards’ Category

$250 worth of snowflake money with Chase Freedom

Monday, April 14th, 2008

We just earned a $250 cash reward check from the Chase Freedom credit card. It took us about 11 months to earn $200 in the rewards account. Once card owners have saved that much, Chase kicks in another $50. The cash back represents one to three percent of everything that ...

$270 Worth of credit card bonuses

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

There are three great credit card bonuses available for anyone who needs a new card and a little extra cash. The Chase Freedom Visa offers a $50 bonus after your first purchase and then over 3% cash back in a whole bunch of categories of spending. You can read more details ...

The Friday Stack (on Monday)

Monday, January 21st, 2008

I decided to go with a regular post on Friday, instead of a round-up post as is my usual habit. I spent the weekend digesting many other posts around the personal finance blogosphere. There were a lot of posts that seemed to be pointed right at me. . . like 10 ...

The Friday Stack: You can save some money in this post

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

On Tuesday, I participated in the 107th Festival of Frugality at Cash Money Life. Patrick was kind enough to accept my late entry. I deserved to be the very last entry on the page. . . and that's the spot I got. Here are some of the highlights: One of my favorite blogs, ...

Control the behavior, don’t just limit your options

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

A debate over credit cards has been swirling between Ana of Debt-FREE Revolution and Madison of My Dollar Plan. I really hate to get on the bad side of Ana - she has a serious antipathy toward plastic - but I must come down on the side of Madison. You see, ...