I love credit cards so much! v2.0 (see first page for add'l details)

[Lain]

Enrolled Gold card in dining credit.

*starts browsing grubhub*

Don’t forget to click through Ebates.

 

[kmc8826]

Any data points of recent retention calls to Amex for the Business Gold? Since meeting spend I have put around $200 on it every month (mostly gas) but that is it. The fee hit yesterday. I was all set to just cancel it but it is the $175 fee instead of the now updated $295 so I honestly am split of whether or not to keep it. I am going to cancel the Biz Plat when the AF on it hits in 2 months; so I will probably be on the list then with the RAT and their revenge.

I am just wondering if it is even worthwhile to call or if I should just make my life simple and close it out. I already have a Business Green and don't really want to product change.

 

[wendow]

Enrolled Gold card in dining credit.

*starts browsing grubhub*

I just did mine yesterday. We don't have many places down here that are on Grubhub. I was kind of disappointed cause I've seen mention of Chick Fil A but it's not showing up. Most everything that comes up for me is weird mom and pop places. I may just have to grab cheesecake each month. Such a bummer

 

[PolyRob]

United doesn't start loading award fares until noon Central and then it's done in batches. So sometime after then August 17 will pop up. I can't tell you what priority flights have so I'd recommend checking in periodically. HTH!

MRs don't directly transfer to United so definitely URs are easier. If you want to set up Avianca, Aeroplan, etc then you can indirectly use *Alliance although I've never considered them for domestic flights.

TL;DR
possible to use MRs but URs are much easier

Well this makes the decision really easy. Thank you!

 

[havaneselover]

Same, here 3, ages 11-15. They're exhausting. I'll be gone chauffeuring from afterschool til 9pm today. I don't know how working parents do it. My job (part-time) has been asking me to go full time for months since my kids are older and self sufficient. Errr, no, I'm way busier now, then when they were younger. It'll be a little easier when the oldest gets her license.

Mine are 14 and now 16 (gets her license in 3 months!). They're with me every other week. Initially that was so hard on me but now I can't imagine having them every week. I drive swim carpool at 4:15 am four mornings a week. Sometimes one of the kids is sick and I have to pick up too. Head to work at 7:15. Home around 6 PM. DS needs to be picked up from football practice at 6:30 except on Thursdays when there is a JV game. Then I pick him up around 10 PM (why do games start at 7PM?). And on Wednesdays we rush home from practice to get a quick shower and I drop him at the math tutor, run errands, then pick him up an hour later. So when Friday rolls around and it's time to send them to their dad's, I'm not too sad I mean of course I am, but I need a break! I think teenagers run you ragged so you will encourage them to get a license and provide them with a vehicle.

 

[amalone1013]

I just did mine yesterday. We don't have many places down here that are on Grubhub. I was kind of disappointed cause I've seen mention of Chick Fil A but it's not showing up. Most everything that comes up for me is weird mom and pop places. I may just have to grab cheesecake each month. Such a bummer

Cheesecake is no Bueno for me and I think the closest to us is Flat Irons. We like South Philly Cheesesteak and I see it being used either there or maybe for a work lunch for DH (I think I am recognizing some of the places he talks about)

 

[amalone1013]

Don’t forget to click through Ebates.

Also I'm a first time customer! Promo code time! lol

 

[wendow]

Same, here 3, ages 11-15. They're exhausting. I'll be gone chauffeuring from afterschool til 9pm today. I don't know how working parents do it. My job (part-time) has been asking me to go full time for months since my kids are older and self sufficient. Errr, no, I'm way busier now, then when they were younger. It'll be a little easier when the oldest gets her license.

My chauffeuring usually ends around 8:30-9 as well each night . I agree with you that I'm also much busier with older kids than I ever was with younger ones.

 

[disneymagicgirl]

Soooooo apparently just before Labor Day AoA got rid of a bunch of their interesting food options. What I read from that is it is very similar to Pop. All we've eaten at Pop are Mickey waffles and pastries, sooooo Can't comment too much on food. We ended up not eating at AoA at all LD weekend. We missed out on Mickey waffles!

So I'd personally go Pop, I really like the reno'd rooms vs the old style but also I'm cheap so I would want to save the $300 for food or something else, like another trip... lol. But we don't spend much time at the resort currently.

I had mickey waffles for dinner the night that we walked over there to eat.

 

[1st*toright]

My older one is now a licensed driver. We only have 2 cars, so it frees us up some, but only if one of us doesn't need our car. She uses the city bus system to get to a lot of her activities and to work, which has eased the burden a lot over the past year or so. It will be another 6 months before she can drive with the little one in the car - that might be the tipping point when it makes sense to get a third car. Even with a lot of help from my parents and some good car pool arrangements, its tough to get everyone where they need to be.

 

[wendow]

Mine are 14 and now 16 (gets her license in 3 months!). They're with me every other week. Initially that was so hard on me but now I can't imagine having them every week. I drive swim carpool at 4:15 am four mornings a week. Sometimes one of the kids is sick and I have to pick up too. Head to work at 7:15. Home around 6 PM. DS needs to be picked up from football practice at 6:30 except on Thursdays when there is a JV game. Then I pick him up around 10 PM (why do games start at 7PM?). And on Wednesdays we rush home from practice to get a quick shower and I drop him at the math tutor, run errands, then pick him up an hour later. So when Friday rolls around and it's time to send them to their dad's, I'm not too sad I mean of course I am, but I need a break! I think teenagers run you ragged so you will encourage them to get a license and provide them with a vehicle.

I've thought this myself lol! I think my dd17 gets a bit of a thrill out of adding more to my driving schedule while she reminds me how much easier it would be if she could drive.

 

[disneymagicgirl]

I have it for $400

Thank you. I remembered that, but it is still too much. I like when I get YC for $290 or so AP rate. Spoiled over here.

 

[PolyRob]

Yes! This is exactly the info I was looking for. Thank you so much!

I just happened to be looking again today and those First Saver Award flights I saw last night for 8/16 are gone. I highly doubt they were booked. I guess they disappeared?

 

[marsh0013]

@Lain definitely something to consider with the double up on the brilliant. I'll have to look more into this and do some math to see if we could make it work to meet an extra $3k in 3 months on top of the $5k for the upgrade.

Our medical deductible resetting in January usually helps us hit a lot of spend, but if I do this mid-October (offer appears to go through Oct 30, and I'd like to have the card in hand before we head to Disney for 2 weeks Nov 2), that doesn't give us much time in January. And watch this year we won't need anything medically early in the year. I see a spreadsheet in my near future

 

[marsh0013]

I just happened to be looking again today and those First Saver Award flights I saw last night for 8/16 are gone. I highly doubt they were booked. I guess they disappeared?

I have no clue! I guess they could be booked. No idea how many they put in that bucket. Are the 50/60k options still there? I only checked 8/17 and as of 1:07pm EST, I didn't see ewr-sna or ewr-lax loaded.

 

[WVMomof3]

I've thought this myself lol! I think my dd17 gets a bit of a thrill out of adding more to my driving schedule while she reminds me how much easier it would be if she could drive.

My 17 year old also does not have his license yet. But if he had a schedule like that he would. lol He quit his sport this year so I told him he didn't need a license if he had nowhere to drive to. But he does stay after for clubs twice a week and volunteers at the local library once a week, so told him he could get it this month. I am not ready for the jump in insurance. Ughhhh (Reason for new CIP the other day!) Also, we have one "kid" car and DD21 is living at home and using it to commute to school so not sure what will happen when DS gets his license. The easy answer was supposed to be DD21 needs to buy her own car, but she is hoping to live abroad for 2 years after graduation next year so says she doesn't want to buy a car now for it just to sit next year. I may be going from transporting one kid to transporting the other. Not sure what we will do.

My favorite activity of the fall used to be colorcoding my calendar. Each kid (and adult) got a different color. I miss my crazy colorful calendar days.

 

[Alexle2007]

Mine are 14 and now 16 (gets her license in 3 months!). They're with me every other week. Initially that was so hard on me but now I can't imagine having them every week. I drive swim carpool at 4:15 am four mornings a week. Sometimes one of the kids is sick and I have to pick up too. Head to work at 7:15. Home around 6 PM. DS needs to be picked up from football practice at 6:30 except on Thursdays when there is a JV game. Then I pick him up around 10 PM (why do games start at 7PM?). And on Wednesdays we rush home from practice to get a quick shower and I drop him at the math tutor, run errands, then pick him up an hour later. So when Friday rolls around and it's time to send them to their dad's, I'm not too sad I mean of course I am, but I need a break! I think teenagers run you ragged so you will encourage them to get a license and provide them with a vehicle.

How is your DS doing? I question every day if we made the correct decision about private school as every day DS tells me how much he dislikes it and why does he have to go there. Plus the fact that his class sizes are not much smaller than his public MS. If I had known the majority of his classes where going to have 20+ kids in them, I am not sure I would have jumped ship.

 

[PolyRob]

I have no clue! I guess they could be booked. No idea how many they put in that bucket. Are the 50/60k options still there? I only checked 8/17 and as of 1:07pm EST, I didn't see ewr-sna or ewr-lax loaded.

I see no first saver awards, but a ton of the 50/60 through 8/16. I checked 8/17 at 12:01 CT because I am impatient

 

[Alexle2007]

oops, double post.

 

[disneymagicgirl]

My chauffeuring usually ends around 8:30-9 as well each night . I agree with you that I'm also much busier with older kids than I ever was with younger ones.

Same. And agree. Only, I have to haul the tired preschooler around for this stuff with me.