I love credit cards so much! v2.0 (see first page for add'l details)

[disneymagicgirl]

Do you use it to pick up cat litter? Everything I’ve read online has said to get a shark but I’d love to know your experience with the dyson

Is the litter on a hard or carpeted floor? If it is a hard floor, you would want to make sure you have both head types. So get an absolute...it comes with both and you'll be covered for the whole house.
ETA: make sure and see if you can get it on sale at Costco or Sams. Thats a great place to buy stuff like that.

 

[Judique]

I've finally had time to go through some documents and add totals up from our Japan trip. These are rough estimates of what we paid, but should give a pretty good idea of what someone could expect booking a similar trip.
Paid with cash
$100.00 - early bird check in
$22.40 - 9/11 fee for Southwest
$257.95 - Hilton Tokyo Bay (1 night partially paid with cash)
$80 - Airbnb gift card (paid portion of staples cashback)
$58.50 - Airbnb gift card (paid portion of lowes cashback)
$87 - Airbnb gift card (paid portion of $100 on raise.com)
$328.15 - remainder of Airbnb stay
$80 - Tokyo Dome baseball tickets
-$45 (cashback discover statement credit)
$57 - remainder of Jr pass / Ghibli tickets
$81 - Baseball Tickets
$98 - Hakone Free Pass
$64 - Digital Art Museum tickets
$684.62 - Taxes and fees on 2 business class tickets
Total Cash Paid: $1,998.62


Paid with points/free
$565 travel redeemed with capital one (jr pass/ghibli tickets)
$45 (cashback discover statement credit)
$13 - airbnb (coupons on raise.com for $100 gift card)
$50 - airbnb gift card (discover cash back-$45 in cashback spent)
$6.50- airbnb gift card (lowes 10% cash back)
$10 -airbnb gift card (staples 10% of $100)
$49.22 - airbnb (15% cash back chase preferred card)
$889.20 - 2 LAX southwest flight (55k southwest points from biz cc)
$8329.96 - 2 ANA business class seats to Tokyo (chase points 90k each-bought through Virgin Atlantic)
$180 - LAX hotel before flight (12,844 chase points)
$173 - Hakone hotel (11,342 chase points)
$685 - Kyoto apartment hotel (46,525 chase points)
$1,289.75 - Hilton Tokyo Bay (5 nights paid with 257k Hilton points from Hilton personal and biz ccs)
Total Points/Free: $12,285.63

Amazing! I know you are still busy getting settled into your new home, but do you have an estimate for food and souvenirs?

 

[palhockeymomof2]

Brand new CIP waiting in my acct this morning. I applied for CIP #3 over the weekend on exactly my 3 month mark since CIP#2. Still active I have a CIC, CIP#2 and a SW Biz.

Congrats

 

[disneymagicgirl]

YES! My boys are both a lot like Andy too in how they play. Both so creative and just love their toys. They get new ones here and there but they always return to their favs. I will be saving those toys. It's just NOT an option.

Also, my dd19 had all the Little People stuff. That may be older than your kids, cause I think yours are younger, but she played with the Little People forever. We bought her the town center for her first Christmas at 7mo. At that time, she could just push the buttons and make it sing and go around in a circle. We added on and eventually she had quite a bit. She played with it until she was like 8yo and loved it. I still know all the songs by heart, as does she. All that is in tubs waiting patiently her kids. We got it out with all the other kids but no one else loved it like her so it will be hers.

My kids LOVE playing with my brother's old school little people from the 80s. DD20 played with them when she was little and my boys when they were little and still do when we are there for a couple days. Now they are mostly there for DD3. Those toys have gotten much love!

 

[afan]

So this is completely but this thread got me in this mess so I need info. I've been binge watching Gilmore girls (thanks to discussion here) til 1am everyday for weeks. I'm obsessed. But I am halfway through season 7 and I want to cry just thinking about it ending. I know there was the Year in the Life I still have to watch but it is SHORT!? Gah! Anyone know if there are more year in the life seasons planned? Please say yes....I'm going to be so depressed if this is almost over. I may as well be a resident of Stars Hollow at this point, I am so emotionally involved.

It's 4 ep that are an hour and a half each. I think it tied it up well. You have to take into account that tye pallandinos didn't do season 7 and didn't even watch it so they ignore it.

There won't be more unless there's a story to be told. The interview the gilmore guys podcast did with lauren graham after ayitl said as much. I think it would be harder to get some of thr actors back without a compelling story to tell more and I'm not sure it's necessary. I think there may br a difference in opinion between those that watched it unfold and have seen eps more than once vs those that binged because it's all so much fresher that way.

If you need mire gg and have time at least listen to the interviews the gilmore.guys podcast do. It took them a bit to hit their stride and didn't get good til the interview with scott danes somewhere in season 2 I think. But they also take 2 to 3 hours to discuss each ep so it's a commitment.

 

[Etonduf]

I live in spider mecca, all kinds seem to coexist at my house - big ugly ones, small tiny thin ones, and everything in between. Some like the grass, some like the trees, they dig every square inch of my house inside and out and a few like my front door and have built human sized webs right in front of it... I don't like to think about that too much...

Courtesy of The Far Side, I believe I know their plan:

 

[disneymagicgirl]

Not sure if this is the reason it didn't work, but I do know from experience that it takes some time for your credit card to be “posted” to your Dosh account. So once you add your card, you need to wait at least several hours if not a whole day to make a purchase, in order for it to work.

I have actually added a card right after leaving the store (oversight) and it still credited.

 

[schmass]

What days were you trying to get them for?

SDD for the afternoon of 8/23 (nothing available) or morning of 8/24 (only afternoon availability). FoP for 8/25 and SDD for 8/26.

 

[elgerber]

So much reading to do on this thread LOL.

1. I HATE bugs, especially spiders!!! Snakes, not sure, we only have little ones here that don't bother me, but they are rare. Lizards don't bother me at all.
2. We saw Toy Story 4, I liked it a lot, but it's not the best of them. 3 slayed me, I was having issues with my son at the end of his Junior year in HS, and he had to skip the movie to work on school stuff that he was behind on. I cried soooooooooooooooo hard watching that film.
3. Glmores got me watching it by myself the first run through. Then binged the whole thing with DD and happened to finish it up, two days before she was leaving for England for an entire semester. Whoa, cue the tears again, for both of us LOL.

And not on the fun stuff, still no miles from AMEX on my Delta, and yes I check at least daily. Getting soooooo mad.

 

[disneymagicgirl]

Hah! I felt the same way when I finished it earlier this year. The Year in Life leaves so many things left unsaid, too. I don't think they're planning on making anymore, but it would be awesome if they did.

nooooooo.

 

[disneymagicgirl]

I (almost) don't care what it will cost---we'll do whatever paid extra hours event DHS has in March!

I'm with ya. Unfortunately I'm sure the powers that be realize that.

 

[disneymagicgirl]

It's 4 ep that are an hour and a half each. I think it tied it up well. You have to take into account that tye pallandinos didn't do season 7 and didn't even watch it so they ignore it.

There won't be more unless there's a story to be told. The interview the gilmore guys podcast did with lauren graham after ayitl said as much. I think it would be harder to get some of thr actors back without a compelling story to tell more and I'm not sure it's necessary. I think there may br a difference in opinion between those that watched it unfold and have seen eps more than once vs those that binged because it's all so much fresher that way.

If you need mire gg and have time at least listen to the interviews the gilmore.guys podcast do. It took them a bit to hit their stride and didn't get good til the interview with scott danes somewhere in season 2 I think. But they also take 2 to 3 hours to discuss each ep so it's a commitment.

This is just a terrible week. First we find out DD3's little bff is moving to NC in August (I happen to love her momma too) and now this. Gosh, I just don't know how to proceed with my life.

ETA: But thanks for the podcast info. I listen to lost of DIS podcasts and clark Howard while I drive around doing my Shipt orders, so that will help pass the time.

 

[disfanforlife]

We have all our kids' Playmobil saved----2 pirate ships, the big island, the little island, the Victorian house with the extra level added, all the furniture, etc---plus a ton of Brio trains and track (no Thomas bc ds was too old for that once it was popular), so much American Girl doll (4 dolls total plus furniture and accessories), and the play kitchen still

Oh my goodeness - we have so much too - I can't even remember all of it - I think we have the airport and some ships too....
Also, yes, American Girl too!

 

[marsh0013]

SDD for the afternoon of 8/23 (nothing available) or morning of 8/24 (only afternoon availability). FoP for 8/25 and SDD for 8/26.

I've been doing some tracking and you can pick these up day of. I'll put more info on reddit hopefully tonight if I have time.

 

[speedyfishy]

I’m trying to figure out how I should pay my wedding balance that’s due in September. I can pay another 3k with Disney Giftcards so I’m working on that but I still owe another 9k. This would have been perfect to get the Biz Plat now. Anyway I emailed my wedding planner if I could pay with Visa Gift Cards. lol I’d like to at least get 4xMR I doubt they will allow that though. Any other ideas? No Chase, on the Citi train so I could potentially just do that, Amex I have every Charge card (SO just needs the regular plat), I could get a credit card in a few days though.

 

[LynnTH]

I have 2 cordless dysons...one upstairs and one down. LOVE them! It is amazing how much dog hair they pull out of the carpet. And once you go cordless it is hard to go back. Our full size Dyson just sits in the closet. I've used it maybe 10 times in the 2+ years we have had it.

We have had Orecks for like 20 some years. Last year decided to splurge and buy a Cordless Dyson V8. Was not sure if I would like it (bought in on QVC and you can return anything within 30 days). I love that vacuum. It is so convenient not having the cords and easily goes from the wood floors to carpet (and I also vacuum by comforter from the dog laying on it). Can't imagine ever going back to a corded vacuum. I cannot believe either how much dog hair comes out - seriously not sure how the dog even has any fur left there is so much on the floor.

 

[schmass]

I've been doing some tracking and you can pick these up day of. I'll put more info on reddit hopefully tonight if I have time.

That would be awesome- thanks!!

 

[Killer Fish]

So my $100 GC on SW did get reimbursement which is great! I will do another $100 in couple of days.

However my $60 statement credit for system error when I was approved and could not get the number is nowhere to be found and when I opened a case through chat no resolution and they told me nothing helpful. I took a picture on my phone hopefully in time it gets corrected....now 26 pages to backread.

 

[elgerber]

Oops forgot my vacuum comment LOL. We had a Dyson, well still do, Animal. Don't like it. We got a Shark liftaway, LOVE It!!!!! We got the one with the motorized pet brush, very necessary on our carpeted stairs with 3 dogs.

 

[Haley R]

Is the litter on a hard or carpeted floor? If it is a hard floor, you would want to make sure you have both head types. So get an absolute...it comes with both and you'll be covered for the whole house.
ETA: make sure and see if you can get it on sale at Costco or Sams. Thats a great place to buy stuff like that.

The litter box is on carpet but they track it all over the house so I’d like something that can do both hard and carpet. After looking at reviews online I still think I’m gonna go with the shark liftaway. I checked sams club but the prices are better on amazon