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Redneck Mutha

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  1. Just me and Mrs Mutha.  Friday night is dinner and drinks, then more drinks back at the house where we start talking next week's meals while bartending.  Saturday morning early get online or check the cookbook to complete the list, then later hit up HEB.  If we don't need meat/booze, we can sometimes get out for $40.  Usually never more than $80 tops. 

    We try to do more with less to keep the meat bill down - chicken thighs, various pork cuts, carnitas/roasts in the slow cooker - usually only splurge on a nice meal at home on Sat nights (steaks, seafood, chops).  Then simpler (cheaper) ones Sun and Tue, with enough for leftovers the next day.  Thursday potluck.  

    Sandwiches and frozen dinners for her lunch during the week as part of that grocery bill.  I need to get better about bringing my lunch.  Could save a couple hundred a month on my lunch out bill and probably lose the 7 additional lbs I'm looking to lose pretty quickly....  

  2. We've been talking about cutting for a while now, but I think the wife is now fully on board since our lock-in intro price for Dish just went up over $30.  

    For what we watch, and the fact that I have not been able to get good OTA reception, it appears our best option is a combination of Hulu Live ($45) and Philo ($20).  About 100 different channels for $65, which would cut our bill in about half.  Any horror stories or issues with either of these?  We'll start the trials in a few days, but wanted to hear any experiences with those.  Have only come across a couple of reviews for Philo, so in the dark a bit on that one.  

  3. 8 hours ago, Chopper said:

    Ya know, if we never had WW2, 1939 wouldn't seem so long ago. Rotten luck!

    Fightin Texum Aggies didn't win nattys because they were too busy winning countless Medals of Honor and protecting your freedom to sip tea during WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Cold, Grenada, Gulf, Iraq, and Afghanistan Wars you stupid sip!  

  4. Lots of good info, thanks!  Back of the envelope calculation shows about $500 additional rewards each year just by changing cards before even factoring in savings by transferring miles to partners or using the UR portal to maximize value. 

    You are correct in your assumptions that it has been several years since opening the regular sapphire (>48 mos) and we did not downgrade from CSR.  And I believe we only have one card opened in the past 24 mos (puts us at 1/24 now).  We're not hotel loyal people, as a lot of time we do airbnb.  Air is mostly SWA, but will be in the market late this year for a Euro airfare.  Couple of follow ups: 

    1) After we do the product change and downgrade from sapphire to FU, then wait a couple weeks to get off the books with sapphire, we are then eligible for CSR bonus points, correct?

    2) Pros and cons of shelling out additional $75 to have wife as an AU on CSR?  

    3) Would a product change from the ghetto SWA to priority SWA count toward 5/24, I'm guessing no?  Of course, if we go with CSR, there's more value using it instead of SWA, so thoughts on even keeping that one going forward?  

    4) Also, just figured out my wife got a Ink Business Cash card for her business, she thinks it was about 2 years ago.  From your post upthread, looks like we should be using that for cable, phone, internet, shipping, so we can link that up to bundle the points into our UR?  

    Thanks again for your help and patience.  

  5. So, had my thumb up my ass the past few years on maximizing my points and want to change that.  Currently have the SWA bottom-of-the-food-chain $69 AF and Chase Sapphire (not Preferred, not Reserve, but the poors-no-AF version).  

    Was looking at upgrading to CSR, but with our spending habits, the CapOne Venture looks more enticing.  Venture is 2x on all purchases vs CSR 3x on dining/travel only.  Plus, I could take advantage of the signup bonus with Venture, no bonus available for us for simply upgrading from CS to CSR.  It does look like CSR has more flexibility on transferring/maximizing with various programs.

    Thoughts?  Other options I should consider?  I see a lot of CSR love here, but do not see much feedback on Venture, didn't know what people's experiences were with it?  I do know that Chase customer service has been great.  I had a CapOne card several years ago and don't really recall any issues with them.  Thanks in advance.

  6. 6 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

    This 2019 Texas Baseball Team has overachieved thus far.  Gonna have to gut out a lot of close games to both make and advance at least 1 Rd in the NCAA Tourney.....

     

     

    Yep.  Bottom 1/3 in college baseball in fielding and hitting and still able to compete against murderers' row so far.  Been great watching them gut it out to this point, but winning a regional might be our ceiling unless we can turn around those aspects.

  7. 13 hours ago, satyanash said:

    don't forget jawja. Even on the road we should have steamrolled them

    Holy shit, I just looked at their season results.  They lost 4 straight before beating us, then lost the next 9 games, then 1-3 in their last 4.

    So 2-16 in their last 18, with one of those wins being against the fighting shakas.  

  8. 3 hours ago, Scholz said:

    Akin to their statements that they can just get guys from California to come when they want.  As if they're a national program.  "If the sips can get all those West Coast guys..."

    We Run This Side of the Sabine, stupid sip.  

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