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Vanilla Reload Card. The Girl. The Story.

VRC with Hair

Vanilla Reload Card.  The Girl.  The Story.

Yesterday afternoon, American Express sent out emails to all Bluebird and Serve Card members alerting them to changes in the way you can load Bluebird and Serve in the future.  In both emails, we learned that Vanilla Reload Cards (VRC) would no longer be available for purchase (and subsequent loading to Bluebird or Serve) beginning on April 1, 2015.  Here are the emails I received:

Serve Card VRC Message

Bluebird Card VRC Message

I thought it would be fun to have an analogy to the Vanilla Reload Cards, to make it her more lifelike and relatable.  This is her story…   Continue reading

Driving Up to the Bay Area and Listening to Serial Podcast

San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge

Driving Up to the Bay Area and Listening to Serial Podcast

Good evening everyone, after a 6 hour drive from Irvine to Walnut Creek, I have finally settled in to my new room.  My dad drove up with me and I bought him a Southwest Airlines ticket home from Oakland to Orange County (OAK-SNA) #bestdadever.  As we drove, we listened to the Serial Podcast, described on their website as:

Serial is a new podcast from the creators of This American Life, hosted by Sarah Koenig. Serial will follow one story – a true story – over the course of a whole season. We’ll follow the plot and characters wherever they take us and we won’t know what happens at the end of the story until we get there, not long before you get there with us. Each week we’ll bring you the latest chapter, so it’s important to listen in order, starting with Episode 1.

If you like murder mysteries and excellent investigative journalism, you might like this podcast.  If you have an iPhone, iPod, iPad, or iTunes, you can subscribe to the podcast for free, which is a weekly audio program that automatically downloads the latest episode straight to your device.  You can subscribe here.  The episodes come out every Thursday and I have a few more episodes to go until I am all caught up.   Continue reading

Evolve Money Discover It Payments Earn 1% Cash Back and Other Cash Back Mysteries Solved

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Evolve Money Discover It Payments Earn 1% Cash Back and Other Cash Back Mysteries Solved

About a month ago, I wrote Evolve Money Update and Discover It Cash Back Clarification ($50 Refer a Friend Bonus and 5% Cash Back at Walgreens).  This post is an update to that post.  Since writing about Discover It’s cash back, my Evolve Money payments have posted to my Discover It statement and cash back has posted to my account.  Before I clarify the cash back mysteries, let me show you where I found this information in my Discover account.  The first thing you need to do is log into your Discover It online account and click the orange View Statement button.

Discover Home Page

On your statement page, click the View Details link of the statement you want to view.

View Discover Statements

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New AMEX Offers for Newegg, Shell, Adagio Teas, and Blue Nile; New Chime Offers for Barnes and Noble, Chick-Fil-A, Auntie Anne’s, and Krispy Kreme

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New AMEX Offers for Newegg, Shell, Adagio Teas, and Blue Nile; New Chime Offers for Barnes and Noble, Chick-Fil-A, Auntie Anne’s, and Krispy Kreme

Good morning everyone, here is a quick rundown on some new offers.  First off, Newegg has an AMEX Offer where you can get a $25 statement credit after spending $200 or more on Newegg.

Newegg AMEX Offer

Newegg sells a variety of gift cards, including some travel gift cards like American Airlines, Carnival Cruise, and Hyatt.  You can see the whole list here (hat tip to Frequent Miler).

Newegg Travel Gift Cards

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Random News: 3 New AMEX Offers, Staples Gift Card and Paper Deals, and Office Depot AMEX Gift Card Deal

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Random News: 3 New AMEX Offers, Staples Gift Card and Paper Deals, and Office Depot AMEX Gift Card Deal

Good evening from Washington, DC.  I had a great time at FTU Advanced this weekend at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City hotel.  I appreciate meeting readers and other miles and points addicts over the past few days.  I will be at TravelCon on February 28 (maybe speaking) and attending FTU Advanced in San Diego on March 6-8.  I’m not sure tickets are still for sale, but if you bought one, I look forward to seeing you there.

Anyway, there are 3 new AMEX Offers that showed up in my account.

Sports Authority AMEX Offer Mervis Diamonds AMEX Offer 1 800 Flowers AMEX Offer

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