{"id":430,"date":"2009-07-15T23:05:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T06:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/?p=430"},"modified":"2009-07-17T09:34:10","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T16:34:10","slug":"the-last-thing-you-need-is-another-credit-card-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/archive\/2009\/07\/15\/the-last-thing-you-need-is-another-credit-card-but\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Thing you Need is Another Credit Card, but&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/schwab_card.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"111\" class=\"rightinline\" \/>Although I can&#8217;t put the entire house on a credit card, I can pay for a lot of its elements with one&#8230; like deconstruction, printing fees, legal fees, and plenty of other items.  Because of this, it made sense to use the most lucrative credit card possible. My friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvintang.com\" target=\"_blank\">Calvin<\/a> alerted me a couple of weeks ago to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schwab.com\/public\/schwab\/banking_lending\/credit_card\" target=\"_blank\">a new card by Schwab<\/a> that gives you <strong>2% cashback on every single purchase<\/strong>.  Not bad at all, and much better than the tons of 1% cards and airline mile cards out there.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Schwab just deposits the 2% into your brokerage or bank account automatically at the end of each month. No more messing with rewards, redemptions, and other roadblocks designed to get between you and your refunds.<\/p>\n<p>2% may not seem like a lot, but it adds up. I&#8217;d rather spend that 2% on upgrades than just have it disappear into the ether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I can&#8217;t put the entire house on a credit card, I can pay for a lot of its elements with one&#8230; like deconstruction, printing fees, legal fees, and plenty of other items. Because of this, it made sense to use the most lucrative credit card possible. My friend Calvin alerted me a couple of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}