SouthFayetteFan
Saving Money on Disney Vacations since 2006
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Wait...you mean I was supposed to read the rest of that??At least you didn't have to correct any of the other information I'm always nervous to answer questions because I don't want to give bad advice.
Awesome! What did you do for your DD? I think we are hyphenating. With mine first lol
You now hold the record for longest pending CIP! I remember my 6 day wait and it was insane! I can totally understand how you must feel seeing people around you going from pending to approved overnight and there's your poor application just sitting there! CONGRATS!!!!Well I finally got approval today for CIP2 that I applied for on 6/3. I hope my future approvals don't take this long as it was oddly stressful.
Now that the CIP is approved I can move on to the next Citi Biz card.
AccchhhhKKK! The keeping your name part is wonderful. But then when you get to the kids, it can be a pain. Daughter kept her name.
Daughter's 2 kids have hyphenated names. I add them to our Disney and some airline reservations. Not enough room for the names on many applications. And on airline reservations you end up with a hodgepodge name. I'm not sure what the compromise is here.
Just so you're aware, those might not pending immediately once that charge posts. I met our MSR on Monday 6/10. Transactions posted on Tuesday 6/11. I still do not see my 80k points pending yet. I'm not worried at all...just pointing out that it can take a little bit of time for them to go pendingChase is driving me crazy. DH is $8 short of MSR on CIP and has met it with recent pending transactions from over the weekend. Come on Chase, clear those puppies so I can see earning on next statement jump up by 80K URs!!
Ok great! With Poly especially, this is the way to go. There are quite a few contracts scattered across the resale sites, and I think more and more will be coming within the next year. If you're patient, you'll find exactly what you want, and you can add direct down the line if it makes sense.
So is it a guarantee to get that upgrade offer? I ask b/c I still don't have an upgrade offer for my old SPG card (can't keep up with the name of them now). I am trying to decide what to do with DH's hilton biz card. He does paid stays there, so I'm not sure I want to be stuck with the lower earning with the lower card for a year until he can upgrade. Maybe in my case I should have him go straight for the aspire?? Or just keep the biz? It just doesn't have good categories except hilton charges.
Awesome! What did you do for your DD? I think we are hyphenating. With mine first lol
Our DD has only my surname. Not sharing a last name with any kid(s) we'd have was actually my DW's biggest worry. But she also didn't want to give our kid(s) hyphenated last names. My last name is very basic and not at all hard to pronounce or terrible sounding, so she was ok with DD taking it. Turns out DD is my little mini-Me anyway, so it worked out. My DW just didn't want to give up her identity and accomplishments by taking my last name. My DW has a MFA that she worked really hard and paid a lot of money for, and had kind of developed a career and reputation by the time I got around to proposing. She didn't want the complications of changing any of that, and I didn't want her to. Besides, I've always known her as First Name Maiden Name, and fell in love with her as such; the thought of her changing her last name to mine just felt so weird.
AccchhhhKKK! The keeping your name part is wonderful. But then when you get to the kids, it can be a pain. Daughter kept her name.
Daughter's 2 kids have hyphenated names. I add them to our Disney and some airline reservations. Not enough room for the names on many applications. And on airline reservations you end up with a hodgepodge name. I'm not sure what the compromise is here.
This is exactly my reasoning. I have accomplished so much with my last name and it’s who I have been. I don’t want to change it. Our last names are short so hyphenating won’t be super crazy. But I’m not 100% sure that’s what we will do.
ETA your reasoning for wanting her to keep it is adorable and I’m telling SO to say this anytime his family or something rolls their eyes lol.
Any compromise is nice, honestly.AccchhhhKKK! The keeping your name part is wonderful. But then when you get to the kids, it can be a pain. Daughter kept her name.
Daughter's 2 kids have hyphenated names. I add them to our Disney and some airline reservations. Not enough room for the names on many applications. And on airline reservations you end up with a hodgepodge name. I'm not sure what the compromise is here.
Awesome. My wife decided to keep her last name too.
Remember when I said we were going to embrace slow-churning...Apparently that only lasted about 6 months, cuz I'm running HARD again
Here's a quick look back at our path since my wife got <5/24 back in Apr 2018:
04/18 - P2 - Chase Ink Preferred #1
08/18 - P2 - Chase Sapphire Reserve
08/18 - P2 - Chase Sapphire Preferred
11/18 - P2 - Chase Ink Unlimited
12/18 - P1 - CitiBusiness Aadvantage #1
02/19 - P2 - Chase Ink Cash 2/4/2019
02/19 - P2 - CitiBusiness Aadvantage #1
03/19 - P1 - Barclays Aviator Business
03/19 - P2 - Barclays Aviator Business
03/19 - P1 - CitiBusiness Aadvantage #2
04/19 - P1 - Chase Ink Preferred #1
05/19 - P2 - CitiBusiness Aadvantage #2
06/19 - P2 - Chase Ink Preferred #2
And I'm hoping to cap off June with a P1 Citi AA Biz card#3 So after getting just 3 cards over an 8 month span...I'm now on 11 cards in an 8 month span and probably targeting to do 15 cards this year...
I did change my name - got married very young, so no career accomplishments etc. that I would be "leaving behind". The easier kid-name thing was a big consideration. I kept my maiden name as my middle name, so its still there. It was a big deal to me - I actually got mad at DH because he said he was fine with me keeping my name or changing it - it didn't matter to him. I told him he needed to appreciate that I was changing my name, it was important, and I wanted credit for it .
Any compromise is nice, honestly.
I can technically keep my own name after marriage. (Japanese women can't. Or, the man has to take her name. Somebody has to give theirs up.) However, any children we have will automatically get DF's name due to family registration laws. That is not optional. No hyphenations. So, I will be changing my name now in order to make everything easier later. I'm not really happy about it because all of my academic work thus far has been under one name & future work will be under a different name