Healthcare credit cards appear when you have medical expenses in your future, whether for you or your pet. Here’s how to run the numbers … Pets are expensive. Not as expensive as children, but still expensive. Costs can vary widely, but a cost of five figures over the 12- to 14-year lifetime of a dog … Read more
Do you like to be teased? If you’re seven, probably not. If you’re twenty-seven and with your spouse or significant other … well, I’ll leave you two alone. 🙂 Like everything else, it depends completely on the context. And though businesses don’t tease the way a couple of love birds would, they do sweeten the … Read more
In yesterday’s post on bargains and baselines, I talked about some of the reasons we got an Amazon rewards card, even though we had another one. This prompted a great question from The Wallet Doctor: I like your strategy on the Amazon card versus your usually 1% cash back card. I’ve thought about going for … Read more
I very much like my rewards credit card. One of the dumber things I’ve done is not getting one sooner. I mean, it’s downright silly not to have one if you use the credit card for convenience only, and not for spending beyond your means. The only thing better than free float is to be … Read more
Our primary credit card was compromised. Again. We noticed a spurious $9.84 charge when looking over our Chase Sapphire statement. A quick visit to the website and a bit of Googling revealed the bad news. So we called up Chase, reported the transaction, and they credited it back to us, no questions asked (they’re good … Read more
This past weekend I had the pleasure of visiting with a bunch of my family’s relatives, some of whom I hadn’t seen in years. Much fun and amusement was had by all. I want to share a quick story about what one wise relative taught one of his children. The gist of it is as … Read more
I was unaware of this until I read DollarVersity’s article that alerted me to a recent ruling against Visa and MasterCard which forces them to allow merchants to pass on credit card fees to their customers. The settlement was on the order of $6+ billion. The official site is here. Can a business charge a … Read more
Mortgage rates have been in-the-basement low for quite a while. After the financial crisis and subsequent bailout of large banks in 2008 and 2009, the banks are sitting on a lot of underwater mortgages and are reluctant to repeat that mistake. They’re not lending to just anyone anymore. The is contributing to the fall in … Read more