I see someone on DOC mentioned it also so it must be a system thing...
This has been my recent dilemma also..... I got some hive mind advice from my local fb frugal living group.... I was torn- DH in early retirement, extreme income difference from a year ago.... we had 2 cars, a 2012(which I love) and 2008 with a LOT of problems that we had bought used about 2 years ago (for a different need,which no longer exists) The 2008 jeep just sat in our driveway, never got used for almost a year (in our state, it had to pass emissions to be legal and it couldn't pass) so basically it was costing us money to keep it for no reason...(so many problems) including "driveway insurance" (had to have with our policies)and town taxes!That's what I'm thinking. I've said for awhile that if one of our cars goes (or has a large repair we know isn't worth doing -- they are both old) that we should just try with 1 for awhile. So while we're helping our son out, it's been a good experiment. I keep saying that if I had an ebike, it would take care of 90% of what I'd want to do if he was using "the" car. Ride up to our pool, ride to the library, ride to the closest grocery store -- all do-able without getting onto busy streets.
We would likely not buy a brand new car, though we haven't even looked at how insane used cars are, so perhaps that's not true. I'm just hoping we don't need to buy one anytime soon. Our cars are old but I love them being long since paid off, low insurance, low taxes. I had some Hertz points (that I always find hard to use) and we decided to use them to go to an out of town wedding a few weeks ago, just for fun. It was a VW Touareg which was lovely. We were like "hmmm, this is nice". But after about 100 miles, my DH found a few things about it (just minor comfort stuff) so makes you realize that a test drive doesn't always shake all that out. We were impressed with the gas mileage on it!
Barclays used to not post your miles until the AF was paid, so when you make the first payment make sure it includes the AF, just to make sure.
And if I didn't have a stupid conference to attend in two weeks, I'd just go up there for the month.
Good luck with all of it. I'm not looking forward to cleaning out my moms house when she dies. She can't /won't do anything now and my sister and I were going to work on it this past summer but I broke my shoulder and derailed the plans.On the CC front (I'm actually on topic), I'm thinking about a Hilton card since Home2Suites seems to be pet friendly and a step up from La Quinta. I'm also considering a Blue Business Plus card since I got an offer for 60k MRs if I spend $15k in a year and my "employee" spends $1k in 3 months. I'm keeping my CS Platinum at least one more year, so this seems like a good deal because I am going through Chase Biz cards fast.
Hoping my sister will drive with me to Northern Michigan and then I won't need to stop but if she doesn't I will make a stop in PA on the way there and in OH on the way home. My parents still have four days for either side to back out of the sale and they need to be out by 10/26 which is not much time since my dad is in not the best health and wasn't the least bit helpful in his prime. So basically my mom is doing everything
I always pay directly through Capital One and I have never had a problem being late. I have had it post to Capital One before it posts to my checking account. I’m not sure if it has to do with the day of the week or anything else.
I pay all mine directly through Cap One also and have never had any issues.
I went to Italy (Rome, Capri, Pisa, & Lucca) many years ago so I only remember weird things like seeing someone filling glass water bottles from a public fountain (not a drinking fountain) in Rome and then seeing the same type of bottles served open to guests at a nearby restaurant. After that we stuck to carbonated water served with the tops on. We struggled to find food during the day when we wandered beyond the super touristy areas, and they eat dinner there really late. We enjoyed great coffee, tiramisu, gelato, and pasta. A woman tried to mug my husband when we exited the train station. Fortunately she only got a map because his wallet was hidden in an inside pocket. One thing we bought in Italy was olive oil in a cool old looking bottle that was sealed with wax. It was delicious and I saved the bottle to use as decor in my kitchen.
The water from the aqueducts in Rome is about as good as it gets.
I just visited Rome last month. We stayed at Margutta 19 (Hyatt) on points. It was a nice boutique hotel in a great location and it included breakfast. We got a mini suite with a large balcony overlooking the back garden for the lowest points redemption amount. The breakfast staff was SO nice. Subway was easy to navigate. I only used Uber once because it's expensive. Rome doesn't have regular Uber, it's Uber Black.
