Dreaming of Maui, the Caribbean, a 5-day cruise for two, heck even the 3-day cruise for two. Signed up for ClubMomyesterday. Had heard about it from a friend, and then got a flyer for it with my paper. It’s basically another one of these setups where, in return for directing business to specific merchants, letting them track their purchases, and letting them send you stuff, they pay you. Cora’s college fund is being supplemented by one of these schemes (BabyMint), and our local grocer effectively does the same thing through their shopper card, so I don’t have a problem with letting one more company pay me for the same information as the other places are snagging. Figure I’m getting a bunch of junk mail anyway that I’m not getting paid for – might as well set up the economics a little better in my favor.

Let’s see, the Caribbean cruise is 420,000 points. At 1 point per dollar spent at the grocery store, that’ll take – hmmm… better upgrade how we eat, if I’m ever going to get to go on that cruise! Some lobster, some filet mignon… a few shrimp. Hey, hubby, I’m _saving_ you money ’cause they’re going to give us this free cruise!