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

[PolyRob]

I NEED IT

Thanks for the great menus everyone! So fun. Happy Thanksgiving!

I laughed out this because it is so me! I showed it to DH and his comment was that it is you “except you would have a drink in your other hand.”

You have to do it. It is a “business” expense!

Sadly I did not end up purchasing this exact Cricut from HSN , BUT I did end up buying one directly from Cricut earlier tonight! I got a pretty good deal stacking coupons and cash back on top of a Maker bundle Now I want an Etsy shop

 

[PolyRob]

UGH - stupid Raise promo...3-5% off select brands. (No extra discount on Disney - the list of eligible GCs is pretty long though.).

TCB increases to only 3%...

That one is a PASS for me... bummer.

That is such a bummer! I thought for sure we'd see something good for BF

I was SO mad! I am hoping Raise gets with it for Cyber Monday!

 

[PolyRob]

Costco order finally went through for the Arlo cameras. I would not want to be part of their IT team come Monday morning...

Costco was a huge fail on Thanksgiving! I am so happy I stayed up until 3:10am to place my order Wed into Thurs. I would have been on pins and needles all day! The banner on Black Friday about honoring Thanksgiving prices was hysterical. Glad you were ultimately able to get what you needed!

 

[PolyRob]

Well, I got 3 more washes out of my dishwasher. Currently will not start at all. Boohoo I am in the analysis paralysis stages of looking at different models. DH is telling me to just pick one, but I also see a Chase envelope in my informed delivery. Hoping it is my new card so trying to hold him off a few hours till the mail gets here. For how long it takes me to make a decision that shouldn't be hard. lol Had a Whirlpool picked out, then read reviews and I am second guessing.

Love my Bosch dishwasher. It was pricey, but I’ll never go back again. I’ve had it for about 10 years. Not one problem, and it cleans dishes spotlessly

I also have a Bosch. I got the very bottom level and so the price was comparable to other brands. I do love mine too! It’s rare something isn’t perfectly clean. I’ve had mine for 6 years. It’s also super quiet. Sometimes I can’t even tell if it’s actually running.

I have a Bosch also, it was pricey but like theirs, it's so quiet, you can't even tell it's running half the time. Thank goodness for the little red light that shines on the floor while it's running.

@WVMomof3 Our neighbors recently got a Bosch and they are in love. They put dishes in without any pre wash and they come out clean. I'm not sure I could ever not rinse my dishes but it's amazing how they get clean no matter what.
Glad to hear all of the other positive reviews for Bosch. We have a GE profile that works fine but is noisy (it's running now). Bosch will be on our radar when it stops working efficiently.

We have a Bosch dishwasher too. Bought it about 6-7 years ago. It doesn’t have a third rack and it dries really well. I just use white vinegar as the rinse agent. With our old dishwasher we couldn’t do our read aloud for homeschool when it was running. Always strained my voice. With the Bosch we were able to read aloud while it ran. Nice. Side note: I miss our read alouds. Happy memories.

Ha! We have a Bosch (also already installed by previous owner) and that and the double wall ovens are the only things that weren’t considered “fixed upper” about our house when we bought it! It has a 3rd rack which I love because I first saw that on Below Deck and thought it was so cool. I had no idea it was a fancy dishwasher until my mother popped over and freaked out haha

Another Bosch dishwasher lover here! I mine. You don't ever have to pre-wash, which is still hard to get used to, and I just choose the extra dry setting and everything is dry. Well anything plastic is still a little wet but everything else is dry. I specifically bought mine because it is so quiet. I love that you can't hear it, I would buy it all over again.

I am here to beat a dead horse. Also a huge Bosch-by-proxy lover! I got one for my mom a few years ago and she absolutely loves the thing. It is super quiet, runs well, and fit the overall look of the kitchen and other appliances. She has a top control model and could not be happier. Her favorite feature is the third row shelf. I can't say whether or not large particles comes off because the dishes always enter the machine already clean. The dishwasher is basically used to sanitize (germaphobe family) LOL

 

[PolyRob]

Quoting myself hoping @PolyRob or @Lain might know the answer to this one. We have always used the Apple Care warranty on our phones and extending it even by one year would be a really good thing for us.

Hmmmm I honestly do not know the answer. I assume part or all would need to go on the Amex card with the benefit and the card would need to remain open. I know the Citi card I previously used and the Costco Citi card mention "part" of the purchase in the verbiage.

 

[PolyRob]

Sorry to clog the thread with so much off topic but it's the biggest shopping weekend and you all are so knowledgeable so....

Any cool gadgets or neat houseware or garage items folks are getting? I like to get a fun (and practical and useful) gift not on their list for my parents. One year I picked up some Martha Stewart kitchen items for my mom and she still uses them. Dad loves tools but hates unnecessary items. I did order him a silly weatherstick that's made from a special twig that changes the way it points as the pressure rises and falls. It looked neat, was cheap, and he loves weather things. Got good reviews too.

I'm thinking of getting the new pioneer woman cookbook for my Mom. We both adore her.

I bought this for my mom:

https://www.amazon.com/Chamberlain-MYQ-G0301-Garage-Delivery-Eligible/dp/B075H7Z5L8?th=1
She is all about the home automation now. It was $18 at the time and I will install it for her.

 

[PolyRob]

you can and there's a Doctor of Credit post with details. Basically you have to cancel your membership (so it doesn't auto renew) and then when it expires you use the discounted renewal you purchased. When you cancel your membership you won't loose any time, it will still expire when it would have normally. I decided it wasn't worth the hassle for less than $10 savings but it's great if you're going to gift someone a membership.

I thought the same thing. I am always down for a deal, but with Alexa devices, multiple other Amazon integrations, and subscriptions, I figured I would pass on this

 

[PolyRob]

PHEW! Finally caught up. I want to wish everyone a belated-Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you all had a wonderful time with family/friends and had a ton of great food! I am so thankful for our community here

I spent a lot of time with family Thursday and Friday while Saturday was spent decorating for CHRISTMAS! I did not go to one store (besides Shop-Rite) on Thanksgiving/Black Friday which is very abnormal for me. I thought I "failed" this shopping season, but looking back I did pretty well with some big ticket items and gift cards savings.

I am 100% most excited about my new Cricut Maker I originally passed on the HSN deal I previously posted about, but I went to Michael's earlier tonight because I needed a piece of styrofoam and there it was... the Cricut display. I lost all control and decided to find the best deal when I got home. Sadly the 16% RMN at HSN ended so it was back to the drawing board. I found a deal directly with Cricut that let me stack two 10% off coupons with 9% RMN. I had to get a bundle instead, but I got 3 blades, matts, a sewing kit, and a 1-month subscription to "Cricut Access" for $28 more than the original deal. I priced everything and it was at least $150 in value for the $28 so I was very happy. I am ready to open a new side-biz.

 

[PolyRob]

Ok - I am dominating the off-topic right now...so I will just continue. Sorry I've been quiet the last few days. Thanksgiving was busy and then Black Friday and today were too. Here's what I've been up to... (this is SUPER long so feel free to skip if you don't want to read all about my weekend)...

Thursday, great day, lots of family time! Totally disappointed in Drew Brees and Alvin Kamara as they left my fantasy team hanging in a must-win game. I still have a major man-crush on Brees though so I'll be quick to let that go. The team won and as my 2nd fave team, that makes me happy.

My wife went out for Black Friday on Thursday evening at 8pm. Black Friday and the Christmas season is the one time each year that I sort of let down my guard on our "super savings" mentality and splurge a little. She basically shops for everybody in a few hours that night using gift cards that we'd already sourced leading up to the day. We try to get at least something for each member of her family and mine so that ends up being 12 adults and 3 kids altogether. Kohl's is our go-to! She got back after 11:00pm. I should've been in bed at this point since my brother-in-law was picking me up at 5am the next day, but of course I'm still stewing over my fantasy team.

So she starts talking about how she doesn't like our tree. Granted, our tree is probably 8-ish years old and it was probably only $25 as some end of season cast-off. It truly is a crappy tree, but once she puts all the ornaments on it, I always felt it looked nice anyways. Apparently Hallmark movies exclusively use Balsam Hill trees, and they are the best. So being the wonderful husband in "splurge" mode I start pricing these trees. HOLY CRAP, people can spend $1,000+ on a Christmas tree...this is insane. But we find one for $159 on some sale...except it's "Traditional". Apparently at Balsam Hill you can shop by "REALISM" and they have categories of Traditional, Realistic, and MOST Realistic. We price out a few other options and we just weren't finding exactly what we wanted. I signed up for their "welcome email" and it's now past midnight so we call it a night...or so we thought. Get ready for bed, catching up on the DIS...and the welcome email comes out and it's $50 off a $200 order... This apparently excites me because I suggest we get out of bed, back downstairs to shop for trees on the computer. 12:57am we're pulling the trigger on a tree all-in cost of $202 from the "Most Realistic" category. Between their Black Friday deal and the coupon we found something that worked. This is still more than I've spent on the 3-4 prior trees we had combined, but my wife is happy... So 1:30am or whatever...finally off to bed.

4:45am is ridiculously early. There is absolutely no reason that any human should wake up at 4:45. At any rate, here I am, awake... Mind you that I do not wake up before 9am 4 out of 5 workdays a week. The only thing that gets me up before 8am is a vacation...I love getting up early on vacation because there's so much to do and experience! So we started at Old Navy and then hit Walmart and things were just super chill. It didn't feel like Black Friday...very boring and blah. We grabbed some Starbuck's around 6:30 and then headed to Home Dept. Dude...Home Depot is WHERE IT IS AT on Black Friday. Tons of employees, they're serving donuts on the way in...people everywhere buying Christmas Trees (I mean not trees as good as Balsam Hill..haha!) and there was just this great ENERGY in the air there. It was exactly what we needed - we were already dragging just a couple hours into our day but WOW, that was just what we needed! I got my older daughter a drone for $30 there. I figure it probably is kinda crap but if she likes it and uses it we'll buy a nicer one and if it's a one and done kinda thing nothing lost.

When we buy for our kids we try to get them 1 big item from us and then some other odds and ends (some of which in their mind might be from Santa). Sometimes we end up with 2 "big-ish" items from us if there isn't 1 big item that fits the bill. We try to keep Christmas low-key budget-wise as I just want to impart good priorities in my kids. I'm certain my older daughter realizes that we value experiences over things. Examples of the big item in recent years are (Disney Inifinity, Lego Cinderella Castle, Guitar, Golf Clubs, etc.) We had no idea what this years big item would be...

So the morning continues and I end up at Best Buy which is where my "big item" comes to the forefront! Amazon Fire tablets... We are not a big technology family. My wife and I each have an iPhone which I guarantee you I do not use to its fullest capability. I'm typing this message on a desktop computer I took from work after we sold the company that is 10 years old. We have some sort of wi-fi only iPad I got back in 2016 which the girls all share (I don't use it). At any rate, this $29.99 deal on Amazon Fire 7 Tablets sounds awesome for my 2 girls. Of course, I am SUPER over-analytical. So this turns into a debate over the following options:

• Fire 7 16GB for $29.99?
• Fire 7 32GB for $49.99
• Fire 8 16GB for $49.99
• Fire 7 Kids 16GB for $59.99
• Fire 8 Kids 32GB for $79.99
• And of course each of these options exist at Kohl's, Best Buy, Target, & Amazon...
• Buy in Store or Order Online?
• If Online, TopCashBack vs. Rakuten?

If you give an analytical person like me this many options...analysis paralysis will set in QUICKLY. Holy crap...I must've gone back and forth a million times on what to do. We got home around 12:30 and on the drive home I had decided Kohl's for the least expensive version was the way to go. Boom, it was decided...and of course Kohl's is sold out... You've got to be kidding me!! I spent 5 hours debating this and it's sold out!! It probably does not surprise you but this happens a lot to me. I wait too long and lose out on things! I re-think things and Amazon is the way to go...so I go to my local grocery store to by Amazon GCs (18% back in fuel!) but then I get there and can't figure out the optimal amount to buy after tripping in to the DoC post about the Amex MR Amazon deals. I literally stand by the gift cards with iPhone calculator in hand doing math for 30 minutes and drive home having bought nothing...because I want to analyze on the computer

At any rate, I ultimately decide to buy 2 of the Fire 8 Kids 32GB version. If you bought 2 they knocked $20 off the price. So $159.98 - LESS $20 from Amazon - LESS $30 by using 1 Amex MR - LESS $10.99 in TopCashBack - LESS $18 in Gas on the $100 GC I went back to buy = $87.58. If you factor in the CIP MSR this went towards you could call this a $68 net purchase for 2 tablets!

So basically from about 7:30am on my day was spent thinking about tablets... while shopping, eating, playing video games, basically whatever I was doing, lol!

Today I grabbed some Disney GCs on that 18% (3x fuel perks) promo (combined with my CIP MSR that puts me @37% combined). I'm now only bout $1,500 short of paying off my January trip. BUT I've maxed out the fuel I can redeem in the next few months so I need something else to come along. PLEASE RAISE - hear my prayers! I'd love to see a way to get 10%+ through Raise and then combo that with my CIP MSR which I need to finish off. I could also do another tank of gas after 12/18 but by then the gas deal will be back to a 6% value.

Tonight's excursion (after a lovely dinner at Red Lobster) was buying Jeans. My mom wants ideas for Christmas so I told her she could buy me some jeans. I'm hard to shop for me...I really want nothing, lol! At any rate...a pair of jeans for me is a 10+ year decision, so you don't just buy jeans. 12 pairs tried on, a few of them tried on twice, 75 minutes...but we found 3 pairs of jeans!

And then when we got home my wife and I spent a couple hours putting together a cart for Barnes & Noble. I redeemed a bunch of Amex MRs for B&N gift cards and we rounded off their Christmas items. Ended up getting 14 items altogether (a mixture of books, games and puzzles). It probably wasn't the best deal we could've gotten but I still have a lot of MRs so finishing their shopping "for free" was a good deal for us. We might put a few items away for the birthdays later next year but between the Tablets, Drone and this we basically have them handled. Probably some shirts, socks and underwear to come too, gives them more to open that morning!

Yes...I am a crazy person... But that was my weekend so far. How was yours??

EDIT: I totally left out 2 super important things!
- We ordered that tree at 12:57am on Friday morning... it showed up at 1:43pm Saturday! 36 hours and 46 minutes to get this tree...that was AMAZING! (And admittedly it does look pretty nice...)
- After getting 3 hours of sleep on Thursday night...I slept for 12 hours last night, haha! I was SOOOO tired at various times Friday. And now here I am typing to you all at 2:30 am with church in the morning so I best get at least 6 hours tonight!

One last edit... I also broke a record for buying things in person on Black Friday. I typically go out with Brother-In-Law and buy nothing...maybe 1 thing in some years. I'm honestly just there for the camaraderie of it all...It's strange but I enjoy just going out with him and hanging for the day. BUT this year I actually physically bought 2 things (shirt and drone) which is a record for me!

WOW! I am so impressed with your shopping. Sometimes you just need to go a little wild. I see more Sulley plushes, designer purses, and even wireless headphones in your future!!!

 

[magickingdomprincess]

Ok - I am dominating the off-topic right now...so I will just continue. Sorry I've been quiet the last few days. Thanksgiving was busy and then Black Friday and today were too. Here's what I've been up to... (this is SUPER long so feel free to skip if you don't want to read all about my weekend)...

Thursday, great day, lots of family time! Totally disappointed in Drew Brees and Alvin Kamara as they left my fantasy team hanging in a must-win game. I still have a major man-crush on Brees though so I'll be quick to let that go. The team won and as my 2nd fave team, that makes me happy.

My wife went out for Black Friday on Thursday evening at 8pm. Black Friday and the Christmas season is the one time each year that I sort of let down my guard on our "super savings" mentality and splurge a little. She basically shops for everybody in a few hours that night using gift cards that we'd already sourced leading up to the day. We try to get at least something for each member of her family and mine so that ends up being 12 adults and 3 kids altogether. Kohl's is our go-to! She got back after 11:00pm. I should've been in bed at this point since my brother-in-law was picking me up at 5am the next day, but of course I'm still stewing over my fantasy team.

So she starts talking about how she doesn't like our tree. Granted, our tree is probably 8-ish years old and it was probably only $25 as some end of season cast-off. It truly is a crappy tree, but once she puts all the ornaments on it, I always felt it looked nice anyways. Apparently Hallmark movies exclusively use Balsam Hill trees, and they are the best. So being the wonderful husband in "splurge" mode I start pricing these trees. HOLY CRAP, people can spend $1,000+ on a Christmas tree...this is insane. But we find one for $159 on some sale...except it's "Traditional". Apparently at Balsam Hill you can shop by "REALISM" and they have categories of Traditional, Realistic, and MOST Realistic. We price out a few other options and we just weren't finding exactly what we wanted. I signed up for their "welcome email" and it's now past midnight so we call it a night...or so we thought. Get ready for bed, catching up on the DIS...and the welcome email comes out and it's $50 off a $200 order... This apparently excites me because I suggest we get out of bed, back downstairs to shop for trees on the computer. 12:57am we're pulling the trigger on a tree all-in cost of $202 from the "Most Realistic" category. Between their Black Friday deal and the coupon we found something that worked. This is still more than I've spent on the 3-4 prior trees we had combined, but my wife is happy... So 1:30am or whatever...finally off to bed.

4:45am is ridiculously early. There is absolutely no reason that any human should wake up at 4:45. At any rate, here I am, awake... Mind you that I do not wake up before 9am 4 out of 5 workdays a week. The only thing that gets me up before 8am is a vacation...I love getting up early on vacation because there's so much to do and experience! So we started at Old Navy and then hit Walmart and things were just super chill. It didn't feel like Black Friday...very boring and blah. We grabbed some Starbuck's around 6:30 and then headed to Home Dept. Dude...Home Depot is WHERE IT IS AT on Black Friday. Tons of employees, they're serving donuts on the way in...people everywhere buying Christmas Trees (I mean not trees as good as Balsam Hill..haha!) and there was just this great ENERGY in the air there. It was exactly what we needed - we were already dragging just a couple hours into our day but WOW, that was just what we needed! I got my older daughter a drone for $30 there. I figure it probably is kinda crap but if she likes it and uses it we'll buy a nicer one and if it's a one and done kinda thing nothing lost.

When we buy for our kids we try to get them 1 big item from us and then some other odds and ends (some of which in their mind might be from Santa). Sometimes we end up with 2 "big-ish" items from us if there isn't 1 big item that fits the bill. We try to keep Christmas low-key budget-wise as I just want to impart good priorities in my kids. I'm certain my older daughter realizes that we value experiences over things. Examples of the big item in recent years are (Disney Inifinity, Lego Cinderella Castle, Guitar, Golf Clubs, etc.) We had no idea what this years big item would be...

So the morning continues and I end up at Best Buy which is where my "big item" comes to the forefront! Amazon Fire tablets... We are not a big technology family. My wife and I each have an iPhone which I guarantee you I do not use to its fullest capability. I'm typing this message on a desktop computer I took from work after we sold the company that is 10 years old. We have some sort of wi-fi only iPad I got back in 2016 which the girls all share (I don't use it). At any rate, this $29.99 deal on Amazon Fire 7 Tablets sounds awesome for my 2 girls. Of course, I am SUPER over-analytical. So this turns into a debate over the following options:

• Fire 7 16GB for $29.99?
• Fire 7 32GB for $49.99
• Fire 8 16GB for $49.99
• Fire 7 Kids 16GB for $59.99
• Fire 8 Kids 32GB for $79.99
• And of course each of these options exist at Kohl's, Best Buy, Target, & Amazon...
• Buy in Store or Order Online?
• If Online, TopCashBack vs. Rakuten?

If you give an analytical person like me this many options...analysis paralysis will set in QUICKLY. Holy crap...I must've gone back and forth a million times on what to do. We got home around 12:30 and on the drive home I had decided Kohl's for the least expensive version was the way to go. Boom, it was decided...and of course Kohl's is sold out... You've got to be kidding me!! I spent 5 hours debating this and it's sold out!! It probably does not surprise you but this happens a lot to me. I wait too long and lose out on things! I re-think things and Amazon is the way to go...so I go to my local grocery store to by Amazon GCs (18% back in fuel!) but then I get there and can't figure out the optimal amount to buy after tripping in to the DoC post about the Amex MR Amazon deals. I literally stand by the gift cards with iPhone calculator in hand doing math for 30 minutes and drive home having bought nothing...because I want to analyze on the computer

At any rate, I ultimately decide to buy 2 of the Fire 8 Kids 32GB version. If you bought 2 they knocked $20 off the price. So $159.98 - LESS $20 from Amazon - LESS $30 by using 1 Amex MR - LESS $10.99 in TopCashBack - LESS $18 in Gas on the $100 GC I went back to buy = $87.58. If you factor in the CIP MSR this went towards you could call this a $68 net purchase for 2 tablets!

So basically from about 7:30am on my day was spent thinking about tablets... while shopping, eating, playing video games, basically whatever I was doing, lol!

Today I grabbed some Disney GCs on that 18% (3x fuel perks) promo (combined with my CIP MSR that puts me @37% combined). I'm now only bout $1,500 short of paying off my January trip. BUT I've maxed out the fuel I can redeem in the next few months so I need something else to come along. PLEASE RAISE - hear my prayers! I'd love to see a way to get 10%+ through Raise and then combo that with my CIP MSR which I need to finish off. I could also do another tank of gas after 12/18 but by then the gas deal will be back to a 6% value.

Tonight's excursion (after a lovely dinner at Red Lobster) was buying Jeans. My mom wants ideas for Christmas so I told her she could buy me some jeans. I'm hard to shop for me...I really want nothing, lol! At any rate...a pair of jeans for me is a 10+ year decision, so you don't just buy jeans. 12 pairs tried on, a few of them tried on twice, 75 minutes...but we found 3 pairs of jeans!

And then when we got home my wife and I spent a couple hours putting together a cart for Barnes & Noble. I redeemed a bunch of Amex MRs for B&N gift cards and we rounded off their Christmas items. Ended up getting 14 items altogether (a mixture of books, games and puzzles). It probably wasn't the best deal we could've gotten but I still have a lot of MRs so finishing their shopping "for free" was a good deal for us. We might put a few items away for the birthdays later next year but between the Tablets, Drone and this we basically have them handled. Probably some shirts, socks and underwear to come too, gives them more to open that morning!

Yes...I am a crazy person... But that was my weekend so far. How was yours??

EDIT: I totally left out 2 super important things!
- We ordered that tree at 12:57am on Friday morning... it showed up at 1:43pm Saturday! 36 hours and 46 minutes to get this tree...that was AMAZING! (And admittedly it does look pretty nice...)
- After getting 3 hours of sleep on Thursday night...I slept for 12 hours last night, haha! I was SOOOO tired at various times Friday. And now here I am typing to you all at 2:30 am with church in the morning so I best get at least 6 hours tonight!

One last edit... I also broke a record for buying things in person on Black Friday. I typically go out with Brother-In-Law and buy nothing...maybe 1 thing in some years. I'm honestly just there for the camaraderie of it all...It's strange but I enjoy just going out with him and hanging for the day. BUT this year I actually physically bought 2 things (shirt and drone) which is a record for me!

Ha, before reading this post I was just deciding on my perfect BH tree on their website that I did NOT order, it's a "most realistic" 9 ft led fir tree. Currently $1499. I've been wanting a new tree for several years ever since the prelit lights quit working. I actually bought one after Christmas last year from Home Depot but realized it was the same height as our old tree so I returned it. Maybe one of these days I'll splurge and go for a BH...maybe...

 

[tink1970]

I feel like a loser... bought a couple of uber gc from BB and haven’t even picked them up . I’m considering the DCL NYE cruise presents enough for the adults in the family and will give DD gcs and cash, so I guess I have one present to buy for my niece. It’s nice to not have to shop, frankly.

I the idea of the BH tree but as long as the pittie eats glass ornaments no large tree here, just a bunch of small ones out of his reach. I swear my dogs are like really dumb children

 

[Lain]

I remember you did this. I'm going to let DH know again, and see if he wants to play with this. One more question if that's ok - what about retention offers on the Biz Plat? That one is posting any day now. I know you closed yours but we might want to keep this one open to use the "book with MRs and get a % back on international flights" thing. We don't want to push things with AMEX, but it sure would make it easier to keep this card. We do have plans for the Dell credits at least.

You can always check the Flyertalk Amex retention offers thread for DPs of offers on various cards. I believe the Biz Plat has almost always had piddling offers unless you’re a big spender on that card. I know one guy who got a tiered 10k MR after spending $3k retention offer recently. He closed the card. Your other option is to downgrade the Biz Plat to the Biz Gold or Biz Green, but DH has never had either card before and PCing will make him ineligible for a new card SUB on the card he downgrades to.

 

[Judique]

Thanks! I just ordered an air fryer from target a couple of days ago. I ordered the same one for 15% less and am going to return the other, too late to cancel.
Also ordered an iPad for my DD. Asked her to research best price and she found it on Best Buy. I ordered it and then found it on target or $20 less! Too late to cancel from Best Buy and they won’t price match this week but will return it when it comes in.

Does BB charge a restocking fee on electronics?

 

[chattadisser]

I bought this for my mom:

https://www.amazon.com/Chamberlain-MYQ-G0301-Garage-Delivery-Eligible/dp/B075H7Z5L8?th=1
She is all about the home automation now. It was $18 at the time and I will install it for her.

She'll love it. I have the MYQ on my garage door opener and its awesome. Very handy when you need to let someone in the house and you don't want to leave a key out. Plus, you can always check to make sure the door did in fact close, when your second guessing yourself on the way to work.

We don't have very many home automation devices in our house but I love MyQ and our Nest thermostat.

 

[tink1970]

Also waiting for my free night cert from the Aspire so I can cancel my one night at a Hyatt and get my points back. It’ll come in 8-12 weeks right?

Yes, so I think those of us who took advantage of the no AF Aspire still have some time to wait.

Is that a new profile photo?

 

[Judique]

I feel like a loser... bought a couple of uber gc from BB and haven’t even picked them up . I’m considering the DCL NYE cruise presents enough for the adults in the family and will give DD gcs and cash, so I guess I have one present to buy for my niece. It’s nice to not have to shop, frankly.

I the idea of the BH tree but as long as the pittie eats glass ornaments no large tree here, just a bunch of small ones out of his reach. I swear my dogs are like really dumb children

My now gone over the bridge Norwegian Elkhound got loose on my tree one year and ruined several hundred $ worth of expensive ornaments. At least they weren't glass as then we would have probably had a vet visit as well.

 

[elgerber]

My now gone over the bridge Norwegian Elkhound got loose on my tree one year and ruined several hundred $ worth of expensive ornaments. At least they weren't glass as then we would have probably had a vet visit as well.

I had Norwegian Elkhound when I was a kid. Unfortunately, not for very long, and I will skip the story, but he was so beautiful.

We kinda spent way more than intended this weekend, on stuff just for us LOL. We don't really have anyone else but our kids to buy for anyway. Got 4 20% coupons for Target for later, dh wanted a Bluetooth speaker, so we got one of those (and a coupon LOL0 for a measley $99. Geez! And a GoPro for Hawaii, with the Amex $60 back offer, and a Ring Doorbell and Camera, with the Amex $30 Best Buy offer, and those came with a free Echo Dot and Echo Show 5, so that's fun.
And movies, I swear I never watch half of them, but those cheap movie displays at Target get me every year!
Oh yeah, and some Pandora stuff for me

 

[DaveL]

She'll love it. I have the MYQ on my garage door opener and its awesome. Very handy when you need to let someone in the house and you don't want to leave a key out. Plus, you can always check to make sure the door did in fact close, when your second guessing yourself on the way to work.

We don't have very many home automation devices in our house but I love MyQ and our Nest thermostat.

You can also set alerts, such as open for more than 10m, opened after a set time ect. Those are nice with kids, well the first one now at least.

Edit: The one thing a really dislike tho is they block all third party integration. They say its a security concern, how is that less than a lock on your front door that works with everything?! I want it to work with Smarthings so that when the door opens later it turns on the entry lights ect. Cannot be done, I have to get a motion sensor. Someone wrote a bridge that worked great until they went out of their way to block its access.

 

[elgerber]

She'll love it. I have the MYQ on my garage door opener and its awesome. Very handy when you need to let someone in the house and you don't want to leave a key out. Plus, you can always check to make sure the door did in fact close, when your second guessing yourself on the way to work.

We don't have very many home automation devices in our house but I love MyQ and our Nest thermostat.

That garage door feature is something I have wanted for a long time. Maybe one of these days. We don't really want to mess with a new garage door opener now, way too much work.

 

[bernina]

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