My husband and I have been able to save quite a bit of money in the past few months, and we’ve been putting the bulk of it into an online savings account. I keep on top of our bills by scheduling payment dates in my Outlook calendar, and I haven’t missed a payment in a LONG time since I started doing that. And because we’ve maintained a good payment history, we’ve been eligible for a few 0% credit cards. In fact, we charged our airfare for vacation in June on one, and I’ll pay it off as soon as the bill comes. Free money! One of our credit cards that we opened just for the ability to do a 0% balance transfers has a points reward program. I thought, how nice if we could use the points for our vacation. It’s the only reason I wanted to apply for credit cards that gave you points, in fact. HA! You need approx. 50,000 points to get a decent airline ticket, and to get that many points, you need to charge $50,000 to the card. Not all at once…but still! I need to compare credit cards and see if there’s a card that will give us more for our points. If I found a good deal, I’d continue charging and just pay it off each month in full!

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