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[elgerber]

 

[GZanta77]

I was charged $140.97 and I'm Florida.

Yeah, but judging by your travels - I'm not sure you're ever in one state long enough to be considered tax resident.

 

[SouthFayetteFan]

Here’s mine. Dh is gonna be pissed...
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Over $19.69? I understand the frustration but for $0.55 a month I’d probably move on. I’m fairly certain you were charged correctly. I’d imagine somehow that @calypso726 was not tagged as a Florida resident and that’s how she avoided it.

I hope he’s not legit mad at you I think you still got a great deal.

 

[SouthFayetteFan]

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I’m guessing mine will be around there too when I get around to it. We have a 6% state sales tax and 1% county sales tax.

 

[Haley R]

Over $19.69? I understand the frustration but for $0.55 a month I’d probably move on. I’m fairly certain you were charged correctly. I’d imagine somehow that @calypso726 was not tagged as a Florida resident and that’s how she avoided it.

I hope he’s not legit mad at you I think you still got a great deal.

I’ll probably just play it like everyone got charged $160.66. He’s already mad that we can’t use it on our fire TVs. We just bought a new one for our guest room

 

[SouthFayetteFan]

I’ll probably just play it like everyone got charged $160.66. He’s already mad that we can’t use it on our fire TVs. We just bought a new one for our guest room

I’d blame it on him... he just had to get that job in Florida!! Iowa people aren’t paying the extra money!!

 

[MKTokyo]

My sister played it. This is all I remember

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This graphic is way too fancy!

My dad used to build/customize old computers for fun & I inherited a Packard Bell 486 to play with. That version of Oregon Trail had about five colors & the most exciting thing you could do was "hunt for game" with little square pixel bullets.

We had a ton of hand-me-down computer games of dubious quality & legality. I'm pretty sure my dad and his friends used to copy them and pass them around. My favorite was Hoyle Book of Games Vol. 3. It came on numerous disks (bright teal, with handwritten labels... see what I mean about dubious legality) that you had to change periodically when installing To this day one of my #1 stress relievers is going on My Abandonware & playing checkers or dominoes with Mother Goose.

I also loved a game where you made hamburgers in space but I don't think the hamburgers were the point of the game. I think my dad just saved it at that point so I could make them over & over...

 

[Haley R]

I’d blame it on him... he just had to get that job in Florida!! Iowa people aren’t paying the extra money!!

Well really he would’ve rather taken the position in Colorado so I can’t pull that card lol. I was all for the southern heat and humidity (and Disney!)

 

[apollodi]

Ummmm I think you’re all forgetting that it’s way better to be extra than basic...

My college-age babysitter was talking to me last semester about traveling abroad. She's in a program that includes an allowance for the group to go to Europe, and they were trying to decide where to go. She tells me, "everyone wants to go to London or Paris, but they're so basic." She's never left the state of Indiana before!!!

I'm barely young enough to be a millennial myself, but I question the validity of "basic" in that context.

 

[afan]

*Xennial.

Hard pass on that one. 79 is on the cusp but is totally gen x.

My sister played it. This is all I remember

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Dude we were playing on apple computers it was a black background and green text. Pretty sure they ran dos this was pre windows in like 86 to 89.

 

[Lain]

I love it, I love it all!! Does DH like PSL? Imagine how many that Starbucks card could get him

I hope there is a cool day when I am in Disney in October. I would love a venti hot PSL no whip, extra cinnamon on Main Street. Literally so extra and basic.

Get with the program. It’s all about the Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew this season.

 

[smallsy]

I think the mean view it different as in being an adult vs being a child. I’m technically the ultimate millennial- graduated high school in 2000; became an adult in the new millennium, that’s what we were named for. I’m 37. I was a sophomore in college on 9/11. I’m from LI but I was away at college in central NY. Still, I was old enough to fully understand the implications. I had friends for HS loose parents, my parents lost friends at Cantor Fitzgerald.

I work with a women who’s also a millennial.She was in 2nd grade on 9/11. She’s from north jersey and could actually see the towers from her elementary school. But being 7 she couldn’t really process or understand it in the same way, you know?

Also the younger people don’t remember life before, I remember going to islip airport and walking directly to the gate when my dad was going to a conference when I was younger. I remember airports without metal detectors and public transit without see something say something. For someone who was 7, it’s just how it’s always been, you know?

I’m the same age as you and I consider myself a Xennial. I’ve never identified fully with either gen x or millinneals. There was an article that explained it well, talking about how technology and the internet changed life so rapidly during our adolescence and then 9/11 in college. It’s a weird place to be, and, as you alluded to, completely different from someone else in our generation but a decade younger.

 

[Lain]

does it code as streaming service for 5x CF?

Asking the important questions.

 

[CyndiLouWho]

No tax for you? Mine came to approx $4.20 a months with tax.

What? I got charged $160.66!

Mine comes out to about $4.46/month. Stupid tax

I guess I got lucky this time. Illinois is not usually tax favorable. Gas taxes just went up almost .20 per gal

Here’s mine. Dh isn’t gonna be happy...
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@Haley R is so Extra

 

[Albort]

I didnt buy it but i felt kinda left out.

 

[Lain]

If I’m creating a “gangsta” churner screen-name, I’m going with Notorious C.I.P.

What about Bust-out Rhymes?

Can’t get more gangsta than burning Chase.

 

[PolyRob]

Get with the program. It’s all about the Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew this season.

 

[Lain]

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Or go hard with a Pumpkin Cream Nitro Cold Brew.

 

[kmc8826]

DoC is reporting a short-term offer on Delta Vacation Packages. Miles are worth double through 8/31/19 - 2 cents per mile.
https://www.doctorofcredit.com/delt...es-worth-double-2¢-sale-2-night-stay-minimum/
I had free time while working a night shift tonight, so I played around with some dummy bookings, and I am happy to see that all Disney resorts appear to be available. Additionally, if booking a hotel plus car vacation, it lets you separate the duration of your car rental from the duration of your hotel rental. In fact, it let me shorten the car rental duration to only one hour, effectively turning the vacation package into a room-only reservation. (It required me to sign up for Magical Express because I had no car rental.) I checked a few resorts during our spring break week, and the cost was the same from Disney and from Delta.

This looks like an effective way to use AmEx MR to pay for a Disney resort at 2 cents/point, which is a pretty decent valuation. No way to tell if they will pass along discount rates when they are available.

The promotion is only through 8/31/19, but here's one more potential nugget. The terms say this: "If you cancel your reservation, miles will not be redeposited into your SkyMiles account. The SkyMiles account holder will receive a Delta Vacations voucher for the value of the miles at the time of they were applied to the booking as payment." If I'm reading this correctly, you could book a vacation now, cancel, then use the 2 cents/point value on a future reservation.

I don't have a trip planned until 2021, otherwise I'd be tempted to give this a shot.


ETA: I ran some fall dates, and it looks like Delta is offering the 20% Fall/Holiday discounted rooms.

ETA: Unfortunately, it looks like you must reserve a flight + hotel package to pay with miles.
https://www.delta.com/content/www/en_US/shop/delta-vacations/miles-to-go.html

I was busy all day today so just caught up on this thread tonight; but did see the Doctor of Credit post on Twitter pop so have played around with the deal. I think I am going to do it as I am on the lookout for flights for spring break anyway and as you all know I am a #deltahostage. I did end up calling. You can book flights and only do 2 nights of a hotel. (Maybe only one night but I had them price 2). That will work perfectly since my DVC points don’t stretch as long as we want to go. I just hate to part with so many SkyMiles at once. But it does make sense. As stated there are just a lot of unknowns and this is a deal it seems we haven’t seen before (and might not see again).

Went ahead and did a Delta Vacation package. 4 nights at Hard Rock Club Level for 3 adults and 2 children. Also got a 2 Day park-to-park ticket for mother-in-law since she's coming with (we already have APs). All in price was ~180k. I left $40 and some change leftover and paid that with my CSR so insurance is covered.

Two suggestions if you end up booking:
1) Disney tickets can be purchased via activities at 2cpp, so that's a hell of a deal if you don't have any or are planning to bridge some APs. Here's hoping that exists when I go back to Disney this December and am getting an AP.
2) Make sure to leave a few bucks leftover to pay with your CSR or other insurance CC. Better safe than sorry.

I didn't really need another trip... but you all know how extra I am.

So you did not pay for any of the extra insurance they were pushing when I talked to them? Just leave some (maybe a couple hundred) on CSR so the travel insurance will cover? Thanks.

 

[CyndiLouWho]

I’m the same age as you and I consider myself a Xennial. I’ve never identified fully with either gen x or millinneals. There was an article that explained it well, talking about how technology and the internet changed life so rapidly during our adolescence and then 9/11 in college. It’s a weird place to be, and, as you alluded to, completely different from someone else in our generation but a decade younger.

Technically I’m a boomer. But I was the very end. I wasn’t really part of the post war/returning home babies. My parents were born during WW2. I was born after Kennedy was assassinated, and after the Vietnam War started. Again, someone born at the beginning of the Baby Boomers was 18 by the time I was born, so completely different.