{"id":12337,"date":"2025-08-20T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=12337"},"modified":"2025-08-19T23:11:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T05:11:02","slug":"wednesday-wisdom-cash-de-correlates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/wednesday-wisdom-cash-de-correlates\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Wisdom: Cash De-Correlates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: Yep! We finally got another alliteration wisdom post.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some credit card issuers really don&#8217;t like charge amounts that look like an integer multiple of a gift card purchase, like $1,000, $1,013.90, or $2,027.80, especially if they see lots of them. If your account has too many of those, they&#8217;ll either <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flyertalk.com\/forum\/american-express-membership-rewards\/2128235-unexpected-amex-mr-clawback.html\">claw-back rewards<\/a>, shut you down, file a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.occ.treas.gov\/topics\/supervision-and-examination\/bank-operations\/financial-crime\/suspicious-activity-reports\/index-suspicious-activity-reports.html\">SAR<\/a>, or in the worst cases, call the local police department. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The typical work-around to avoid exact charges is to also buy a banana, tabasco, or a serrano pepper with each purchase. Those are great options until you forget them in your trunk, then come back days later to a candidate for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/MoldlyInteresting\/\">\/r\/MoldlyInteresting<\/a> hiding in your car. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s another way to avoid the exact multiples though: Bring some coins and dollar bills with you and stick those in the self checkout register before you swipe your cards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good luck, and happy spending!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-14-768x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12339\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-14-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-14-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-14.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Yes yes, some banana mold patterns are pretty cool, I get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: Yep! We finally got another alliteration wisdom post. Some credit card issuers really don&#8217;t like charge amounts that look like an integer multiple<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12341,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12337\/revisions\/12341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}