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Buy eGift Cards on DoorDash & Stack with 10% DashPass Discount

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Good afternoon everyone, I hope you had a great weekend.  A few days ago, Laura received her new Chase Sapphire Preferred Credit Card and added it to our shared DoorDash account.  Moments later, there was a message that popped up asking if we would like to enroll in a free DoorDash DashPass membership.  I am looking forward to taking advantage of the $10 monthly discount on groceries and retail, along with the other benefits of the membership.

Surprisingly or unsurprisingly, DoorDash forgot to mention that you can buy eGift Cards (eGCs) through DoorDash and get a discount.  Let me show you how.

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Instant Access to Chase Sapphire Preferred Credit Card After Approval with Apple Pay & Google Pay

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Updated at 8:15am PT on 4/23/25: I completed the $5,000 minimum spending requirement and the 100,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards Points show as pending in my account – all before even receiving the physical card in the mail.  You can also refer friends and family members to the CSP before receiving the physical card in the mail.  See both updates below.

Good morning everyone, I hope your weekend is going well.  Last night, I was looking into credit card options since Laura and I have some large purchases coming up in the next few months.  While researching, I wanted to see if the Chase Sapphire Preferred Credit Card (CSP) (click here to learn more and apply) offers instant access to the card, and I was happy to find out that it does!

According to Chase: “Spend Instantly: Apply for a card, use it the same day. Receive instant access to your card by adding it to a digital wallet, like Apple Pay®, Google Pay™, or Samsung Pay.” You can check out the full details here chase.com/digital/spend-instantly.  In this post, I will show you the process to add the CSP to your Apple Pay Wallet.

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When Does the Free Night Certificate from the Chase World of Hyatt Credit Card Post and Expire?

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Good afternoon everyone, I hope you had a great weekend.  Yesterday, my dad asked me about his Hyatt Free Night Certificate (FNC).  He told me he just booked a Hyatt stay using the FNC but wasn’t sure if he got a good deal on the hotel stay.  I asked him when the FNC expired, but he didn’t know or remember.  I told him how to figure out when the Hyatt FNC posted to his account and how to find out when the FNC expired.  I figured this post would be helpful to others who are in the same situation.  It is really easy to find out, here is how.

Figure out when your $95 annual fee is charged to your Chase World of Hyatt Credit Card.  For Laura’s card, her $95 annual fee posted on February 1, 2025.  You can find this charge using the Chase website, Chase app, or by looking at your credit card statements.

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I Earned 15,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards by Paying Allstate Insurance with 2 Chase Freedom Credit Cards

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Good afternoon everyone, happy Friday!  I have 2 Chase Freedom Flex Credit Cards (the second was a downgrade from a Chase Sapphire Preferred Credit Card) and Laura has an older Chase Freedom Credit Card (Visa version). In case you missed the announcement, Chase Freedom celebrated it’s 15th birthday this year and to mark this special occasion, Chase added 2 more bonus categories in March: Tax Preparation and Insurance.  Tax prep and insurance are not the most exciting categories, but the timing couldn’t be better for us since we had $3,000 of car and home insurance payments to make this month.  Before I made the insurance payments, I made sure that our Chase Freedom cards were registered and that we still had $1,500 in spend to do on our cards.

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After 12 Years, I Finally Earned My First Hyatt Brand Explorer Award!

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Good afternoon everyone, it’s time to pop the champagne bottles!  After 12 years, I finally earned my first Hyatt Brand Explorer Award! If you are not familiar with the Hyatt Brand Explorer, you earn a category 1-4 free night certificate after every 5 different Hyatt brands that you stay at.  As of now, Hyatt has 32 different brands, so you could earn up to 6 Brand Explorer Awards.  Scroll down to see the current list of brands.

On Friday, February 21, I went to a Warriors @ Kings NBA game in Sacramento and stayed at the nearby Hyatt Centric Downtown Sacramento.  Fast forward to today (Monday, February 24), I received an email from Hyatt congratulating me earning a Brand Explorer Award.

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