Author: Cashback Cowgirl

Update 10/26/2024. The 1.5x UR CSR discount on Apple products is back and will available through the end of November.

The Wednesday Morning Weekly — September 11, 2024

This one will be short and sweet!

A brand new iPhone Pro costs $999 before taxes. After say 7% sales tax it’s $1068 out the door. This is quite pricey!

But for those who have a Chase Sapphire Reserve (CSR), Chase often runs specials where you can buy Apple products with Ultimate Rewards points at 1.5x, which provides a 33.3% discount on the iPhone — if you value Chase UR at 1 CPP as I do. This brings the $1068 out the door price down to $712.

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10/19/2024: DoC created a new page listing several things which count for the software credit. There are already over 100 comments.

8/27/2024: Good news! Synology C2 Storage codes as MCC 5734 and should count for the annual $100 software subscription credit. See the end of this article for more details.

7/2/2024: I just learned from DoC that U.S. Bank is now offering a $750 SUB on their Triple Cash Rewards Business Credit Card for a $6,000 spend within 6 months. I need another card to work and I think I am going to go for it. US Bank Triple Cash Rewards was only $500 for $4500 spend in the recent past. $750 sounds really enticing and reminds me of the recent Ink Unlimited and Ink Cash deals — the Chase Inks are my favorite cards of all credit cards. The card has no annual fee along with 0% APY for 12 months on purchases. I’ve also heard you can even fund bank accounts with it if done properly. The 3% cashback on gas and dining is helpful as well.

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The Wednesday Morning Weekly — October 9, 2024

So I noticed we were low on pork butt the other day after examining the contents of the chest freezer. Pork butt is a great affordable solution to beef roasts for stews, as well as for ground pork. Pulled barbecue pork butt is absolutely delicious as well — we are into BBQ here at home and have a Weber Smokey Mountain barbecue pit. Additionally with the ground pork, we can make various sausages including hot Italian sausage as well as chorizo.

We usually buy our pork butt in bulk at Sam’s Club because they usually have decent prices. However lately I notice they are quite a bit expensive at $2.28/lb:

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Update 10/9/2024. They sent me a VGC via Tremendous for $20. I used it to prepay my natural gas bill, which does not charge me a processing fee to use a card to pay the bill.

Mercury sent me an email today offering me $20 to fill out a survey as to why I moved my money out of Mercury Business accounts. I obliged and filled it out. Took about 10 minutes (about 30 questions perhaps) — figured why not.

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Update 10/1/2024. So I also got my “free” whopper from Burger King today for Q4. I put “free” in quotes since it’s only free if you purchase something else. So what I did was add cheese, which cost me 70 cents. Whopper with cheese. Total was 76 cents with tax and charged it on my Amex Business Gold for 4x cashback.

Originally posted on 9/30/2024.

Normally I don’t really write about deals but I have to since the Burger King Whopper is like one of my most favorite burgers of all time — love the flame broiled taste!

As you might already know, Walmart+ lets you get a free Whopper every calendar quarter from Burger King. Today is the last day of this quarter. If you haven’t already, perhaps grab one today and then tomorrow as well if you like! If you have multiple WM+ credits / accounts I guess you could get a few free ones today — share or put in the fridge, etc. 😺

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