What is your bonus credit card library? Do you stick to one card, or optimize across multiple cards with bonuses? Just starting on this points journey and realize I’ve missed out by paying full price and not with points all these years.

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Amex gold for restaurants and food

Capital one venture x for travel and lounge access

DM for referral to either one!

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Optimize across cards. CSR for travel and dining. A 1.5% cash back card for general purchases. Amazon prime card for obvious reasons. I'll get the instacart card soon too.

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Usually the SUB are spend $5k-$50k, so I’ll use it for quarterly taxes if I don’t have renovations, repairs or a new property.

The chase trifecta are my go to cards - freedom for quarterly category spends, freedom unlimited for every day purchase as they get 1.5% back and then chase sapphire reserved for dining and travel. I also use the chase shopping portal for websites that give extra points per dollar for shopping via the portal. Once I’m ready to spend my points i pool them all isn’t the CSR account bc the points are worth more and book my travel.

I also have the Amex gold but I don’t utilize it often bc it has similar rewards to CSR and thinking about ditching it.

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I never care about category spend. You get better ROI by opening new cards to get the sign-up bonus.

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