Black Friday Buys and Price Rewinds

First Black Friday in which I was actually looking at deals.  Ended up buying a $250 laptop for $150 (after tax + shipping) - which should work very well with the Chromecast that we bought.  Bought this right at the stroke of midnight-ish at Fry's... my first ever Black Friday purchase!!!

Also bought a new Surface Pro 2017 (with a type cover) because I sorely need a new computer.  The current one warns me of low battery, even when it is plugged in, and the processor works at half speed half the time.

In addition, as one friend puts it - I also spent most of Thursday 'rebuying' stuff.  I was basically looking online for things that I already bought to see if they were on sale.

With the Citi Price Rewind feature from Citi, we had bought a bunch of stuff ~50 days before Black Friday, so that if Black Friday comes and a deal was present, simply snipping a screenshot and uploading it to Citi should allow us to get the spread back.  We'll see how this goes and whether Citi does in fact honor this.  If they do, they will have elevated themselves to my most favorite credit card company list.

Cleaning Cleaning...

Tub is clean.  New water heater is in.

Trick - this soft cleaner for Barkeeper's Friend, and scrub.  A little 220 sandpaper to round things out.    Looks like new! 

Up next, the stove.

Credit card opening spree...

After almost a year of no credit card opening.  This past week I have gone on a spree and opened two credit cards (one with Amazon, one with Chase)

What was the deal you ask?
Amazon - $75 gift card
- 5% cash back on Amazon purchases if you are a Prime member

Chase Sapphire Preferred - 50K points after spending $4k in 3 months
- 0% foreign transaction fee
- points are worth 1.25 on their rewards website
- first year annual fee waived

weeeeee!!!

Lobster Miso soup!

Grocery shopping today, cheap lobster!

So we made lobster miso soup with the head... Mmmmmm