Putting My Tuition Cards to Good Use
January 24th 2008 11:21
If you've been here before you know about the tuition I put on some 0% APR credit cards. Well, the newer one of those had a rewards program. I usually don't pay attention to rewards programs much because I don't normally charge enough to make any difference.
However, charging $3000 on one card gave me 9000 points. (I think there was a bonus for the first time use, and then anytime after that it's $1 = 1 point). I had 9000 points. It was also almost Christmas and I was graduating and I didn't have a job lined up.
So what is a poor, just graduated, girl to do? Use those points! I normally get my parents gift cards for Christmas because I know they hate getting random crap that just sits in their houses. (My Dad asked for socks for Christmas. Asked for them. Gift cards work). Restaurant gift cards are always good because they don't go out to eat much. So that's what I did for both of them. Mom got a $50 gift card to one place. Dad got a $25 gift card to another place. (My brother got him a cd he asked for as well, so the gifts were even - plus parents are divorced so they wouldn't know anyway).
I used up every last point I had on that card. But I didn't have to spend money that I didn't have. And I got them exactly what I would have gotten them if I had spent real money. It's good all the way around.
Just an idea if you've been saving up those points and aren't sure what you really want to get. It's also what I'll be doing with those mypoints points I'm accumulating.
However, charging $3000 on one card gave me 9000 points. (I think there was a bonus for the first time use, and then anytime after that it's $1 = 1 point). I had 9000 points. It was also almost Christmas and I was graduating and I didn't have a job lined up.
So what is a poor, just graduated, girl to do? Use those points! I normally get my parents gift cards for Christmas because I know they hate getting random crap that just sits in their houses. (My Dad asked for socks for Christmas. Asked for them. Gift cards work). Restaurant gift cards are always good because they don't go out to eat much. So that's what I did for both of them. Mom got a $50 gift card to one place. Dad got a $25 gift card to another place. (My brother got him a cd he asked for as well, so the gifts were even - plus parents are divorced so they wouldn't know anyway).
I used up every last point I had on that card. But I didn't have to spend money that I didn't have. And I got them exactly what I would have gotten them if I had spent real money. It's good all the way around.
Just an idea if you've been saving up those points and aren't sure what you really want to get. It's also what I'll be doing with those mypoints points I'm accumulating.
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