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One Chase United Explorer Card Solved My Parents' Round-Trip Flights
My parents will be staying a while, so their return date was never settled. I paid cash for the outbound ticket; for the way back I used miles, because award tickets can be cancelled. A $780 cash fare, booked for 49,500 miles as a cardholder instead of 55,000.
The Amex Blue Cash Preferred, Our Everyday Grocery Card: 6% Back
Our grocery cash-back setup runs on two Amex cards: the BCP paying 6% back at grocery stores, and a no-fee BCE catching the spend past the cap at 3%. How much grocery spending makes the $95 annual fee genuinely worth it, and which card fits your family — it's all here.
The Chase Amazon Prime Card's 5% Finally Got Interesting After We Had a Kid
My wife opened the Chase Amazon Prime card back in her student days; it sat in a drawer for years and I once complained it was wasting a Chase card slot. Then our baby was born, with just the two of us and her bedridden after delivery, and the card, with Prime's next-day delivery, suddenly earned its keep.
Three Months of Failed AC Repairs, a Pricey New Unit, and the 0% APR Card That Paid for It
From May to August, a compressor slowly destroyed by a string of misdiagnoses, wrong refrigerant charges, wrong parts, and my own procrastination and corner-cutting: a 3.5-ton evaporator coil, an expansion valve bulb sensor, a stranded reclaim... until the outdoor unit finally died completely. A replacement would run nearly $6,000, and the small company had no decent installment plan — so for the first time I truly understood why 0% APR is a lifesaver: I opened an Amex Blue Cash Everyday.
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