Speaker 1: All right, Mojo. In the morning show, Shannon has an addiction.
Speaker 1: She's addicted to something. This is actually a good addiction.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 3: I am a point whore, is what I would call myself.
Speaker 3: I love points, credit card points, rewards, free stuff, shopping
Speaker 3: online with like the apps to accumulate cash back. I
Speaker 3: live for this. I take advantage. I have so many
Speaker 3: different methods of using specific credit cards and different apps.
Speaker 3: We talked about Capital One, the shopping app, the other
Speaker 3: day on the show. But I was so proud of myself.
Speaker 3: Wes and I are trying to like get away for
Speaker 3: a weekend in the next couple of months, just him
Speaker 3: and I before the craziness of like the school year
Speaker 3: really kicks in. We booked a long weekend trip for free. Wow, flight, hotel,
Speaker 3: totally paid for with points. Not a dollar are we spending?
Speaker 3: And I am like, this is exactly why I do this.
Speaker 3: I'm so proud.
Speaker 2: Yeah, where are you going?
Speaker 3: We are going to Arizona. That's his favorite place. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: he was actually going to move there before he met me,
Speaker 3: and I said a wrench in that equation. So whenever
Speaker 3: we can get out there, he loves going. It's easy,
Speaker 3: that's where we're going.
Speaker 2: I need to pay for to do it. What I'm using.
Speaker 1: I'm using points for my room in Cleveland. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to Arizona. I'm going to the Mistake by the Lake.
Speaker 3: But I know you do the same thing. You're good
Speaker 3: about credit card points. It's the best feeling to input
Speaker 3: that number, redeem and to see your total come down
Speaker 3: to zero point zero zero dollars.
Speaker 4: Doesn't this just mean that you spent a lot of
Speaker 4: money with them to get for sure?
Speaker 3: But that's where I'm a crazy person. Even if I
Speaker 3: go to like Tim Horton's and get a two dollars
Speaker 3: and sixty cent coffee, Yeah, it is on a card
Speaker 3: where I get points, yep, and then I just pay
Speaker 3: it off.
Speaker 1: I use my stars today at Starbucks. I think I
Speaker 1: got I think they gave me my egg bites for free.
Speaker 3: To let me tell you the dopamine hit of using
Speaker 3: Starbucks Stars. It's real.
Speaker 2: They taste free.
Speaker 1: The same thing kind of happens to me when I
Speaker 1: go to Imagine and they say you got ten bucks
Speaker 1: to Imagine Bucks?
Speaker 2: Do you care to use them?
Speaker 3: Always makes your whole day?
Speaker 2: Always? No, I want to say I am one of them?
Speaker 1: Do you order more because you got something from the
Speaker 1: same thing the entire time.
Speaker 4: So what are you gonna do when you have one
Speaker 4: hundred imagine points?
Speaker 3: Oh, okay, I'm going to some friends. The girls on
Speaker 3: the show get this when you go to Sephora and
Speaker 3: you're at the counter and you type in your phone
Speaker 3: number and they're like, oh, you get to pick from
Speaker 3: this array of items, or you have ten dollars off.
Speaker 2: Yes, Stephanie, what's up? It's Mojo in the morning.
Speaker 5: Good morning.
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, Shannon. This this truth speak at girlfriend
Speaker 6: now Kroger. I have saved over three thousand dollars a
Speaker 6: year to date, just this year with using my coupons
Speaker 6: and my points the cash back. Like, girl, anything I
Speaker 6: can earn cash back, I'm doing. I've got Dunkin Donuts,
Speaker 6: free drinks, Starbucks, all of them.
Speaker 3: Okay, do you do Target Circle. I just looked at
Speaker 3: my Target Circle. In the past twelve months, I've saved
Speaker 3: one seventy nine dollars and fifty two cents.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I'm about to go to school close shopping for my son.
Speaker 6: Back to school shopping, and Target is a place to
Speaker 6: go because not only do they have all of those
Speaker 6: everything every dollar that you spend, you earn rewards.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 2: Where do you see that at? You see it up
Speaker 2: at the bonus points or something in your target?
Speaker 3: Go to your my target, it's right there at the top.
Speaker 6: Yeah, my circle.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I save.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, I've saved forty dollars. I've saved seventeen dollars.
Speaker 3: Guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not a shopping a Hauliy.
Speaker 6: It's like free money.
Speaker 2: You know what. It's not like free money. You're spending together.
Speaker 3: As things that you're like you're buying anyway.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, Also the person who if it's like spending
Speaker 4: twenty more dollars and get free shipping, spending twenty more dollars.
Speaker 3: So I'm weird about shipping. If I have to pay
Speaker 3: for shipping, I'm I'm not doing it. But sometimes if
Speaker 3: you do the math, you buy something else and your
Speaker 3: total comes out to even cheaper. Yeah, and you're getting
Speaker 3: something extra, So I play with it a little bit.
Speaker 2: Hold on, Stephanie.
Speaker 1: Uh, we've got Andy the uh you know, the Andy misfit.
Speaker 2: Andy?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 3: Andy, I've missed you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Andy, Andy the telemarketers on the phone with us
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: What's going on? Andy. Hey, how are you guys? I
Speaker 2: got you, Andy? What's going on?
Speaker 7: Hey?
Speaker 6: I want to I want to give the you know,
Speaker 6: honor medal of honor to Shannon and call this as
Speaker 6: a thrifty Shannon topic.
Speaker 2: Okay, I love the way you say thrifty. Will you
Speaker 2: say that one more time?
Speaker 7: Thrifty Shannon?
Speaker 3: Thank you Andy? Yeah, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: And any you need any advice on how to do
Speaker 1: this because Shannon's it seems like she's an expert. I'm
Speaker 1: a trip to Arizona's huge.
Speaker 7: Absolutely.
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Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: This dot com?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 3: Thank you. My sister is the real deal when it
Speaker 3: comes to this stuff. She tops me beyond. But I've
Speaker 3: learned a few things from here.
Speaker 1: I have friends of mine like Steve Gabara puts everything
Speaker 1: on credit cards.
Speaker 3: That's my sister and brother in law.
Speaker 2: He is everything at his core.
Speaker 3: They're going on a ten year anniversary trip in a
Speaker 3: couple of weeks to Paris, not paying a dime, not
Speaker 3: paying they're paying zero dollars. Yes, they're so good about
Speaker 3: that stuff.
Speaker 1: If you're going to pay it off, which that's the
Speaker 1: thing you got to make sure you do and you
Speaker 1: get the points. Hold on, I didn't even realize this,
Speaker 1: but Sarah is with us right now in her favorite
Speaker 1: place to get points and use and redeem them.
Speaker 2: Sarah, where is it the Spencer?
Speaker 3: Do you have a rewards program?
Speaker 4: Yeah, like they'll give you a for you.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't buy flower, but they'll give you like a free.
Speaker 2: Ounce, do they really? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, So it's not like they'll give you cash money
Speaker 1: off of something or whatever like that.
Speaker 2: Oh they do, Oh they do.
Speaker 6: Okay, it's ones, certain ones they'll give you like freebies.
Speaker 3: So is there a punch card for you?
Speaker 8: There is?
Speaker 5: You have punch cards?
Speaker 4: Yes, I have a punch card.
Speaker 2: So funny punch.
Speaker 6: Have different apps and stuff.
Speaker 8: And remember we do rewards and can do happy hours.
Speaker 4: Oh really if you go before like twelve pm.
Speaker 1: Do you remember when Mom used to have on her
Speaker 1: key chain like all those little plastic and then we'd
Speaker 1: be like, can you imagine you know everything speedy rewards
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, the dispensaries on.
Speaker 2: There forson awarding alexis what's up?
Speaker 5: Hey? First time, long time, Hey food. So my husband
Speaker 5: and I we've been graduating from high school for ten
Speaker 5: years now, but he's we've been saving up speedy points
Speaker 5: since then, and he's at just about a half a
Speaker 5: million points.
Speaker 2: Oh why are you saving him?
Speaker 5: I don't know, He's just a point hoarder. Again, I'm
Speaker 5: not really sure, Like we could have hundreds of dollars
Speaker 5: in gift cards, but he just wants to save them all.
Speaker 1: It's funny that you save him, and you do this
Speaker 1: because of a friend of mine had been saving up
Speaker 1: his McDonald's points and didn't realize that the McDonald's points expire.
Speaker 1: So there's I didn't realize that there was expiration on
Speaker 1: some of these points, but he got kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: screwed by that because he had hundreds of thousands.
Speaker 3: Okay, this is the second McDonald's mention of the show,
Speaker 3: which I think means or something.
Speaker 1: A million speed these points is the cash equivalent of
Speaker 1: roughly one thousand dollars. Wow, that's a lot of free gas. Randy,
Speaker 1: where do you do your points?
Speaker 7: Oh? Hi, good morning, I have Yeah, I have this
Speaker 7: Dickporting Goods app Okay, So then if you connect your
Speaker 7: fitness whatever fitness tracker and they're like a garment or
Speaker 7: or an Apple Watch. And then if you get like
Speaker 7: like say three miles a day or thirty minutes of
Speaker 7: being active in a day, you get three points.
Speaker 4: At every three hundred points.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's easy. It's easy. Anyway. If you get three
Speaker 7: hundred points, you get ten dollars from from Dixporting Goods.
Speaker 2: That's unreal. Yeah, I didn't get it.
Speaker 7: I've been sucking a lot of ten dollars from Dickporting Goods. I,
Speaker 7: by the way, buy a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: It takes and I get the points from that. So
Speaker 1: I always put it on my phone number. So let
Speaker 1: me give you my phone number, Randy, Hold on a
Speaker 1: second here, Jamie, you're into this?
Speaker 4: Huh?
Speaker 2: You like saving some money?
Speaker 5: I love me anyway to save coupon's colds anything.
Speaker 8: My boyfriend is so against it.
Speaker 5: He tells me that I'm crazy that who needs to
Speaker 5: save a little bit of money?
Speaker 2: It's okay? Wait is he rich? What does he do?
Speaker 5: He is a production manager?
Speaker 1: Man, get his credit card for me and buy me
Speaker 1: a few things. I need some I need some things
Speaker 1: on Petermallar dot com.
Speaker 4: Did y'all ever watch Extreme Coupons?
Speaker 2: Oh that was a great show.
Speaker 3: Like my favorite so I did not. But we have
Speaker 3: a listener named Amanda, and I know she's listening right
Speaker 3: now for sure. And she when I had both Lucy
Speaker 3: and Smith, she is an extreme coupon her and she
Speaker 3: gave me, I'm talking a truckload of diapers and wipes
Speaker 3: where I didn't buy anything for the kids until they
Speaker 3: were probably like six months old. I don't know, because
Speaker 3: she went so nuts with that.
Speaker 4: Sometimes the grocery store would owe them money.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hold on a second, Mike pulls out.
Speaker 2: Is this right, Mike?
Speaker 1: A spreadsheet to do exactly what Shannon did to get
Speaker 1: that free vacation.
Speaker 9: Okay, Yeah, my wife wants to ask me if all
Speaker 9: my cash back stuff was worth it. And I started
Speaker 9: tracking it about four or five years ago. I used
Speaker 9: to average over one thousand dollars a year between the
Speaker 9: credit cards and awards desks. But yeah, I got a
Speaker 9: whole spreadsheet. I can break it down.
Speaker 2: Man, what do you do that. You're a spreadsheet kind
Speaker 2: of guy.
Speaker 9: I'm an engineer, and all the engineers I know got spreadsheet.
Speaker 2: That is so funny.
Speaker 9: One thing you guys haven't thought about, you know, with
Speaker 9: a lot of these awards ASTs, you also get three
Speaker 9: beees on your birthday, so you're getting the points usual,
Speaker 9: I get like free sub sandwiches, free breakfast sandwiches. I'm
Speaker 9: all over it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that no, that's I'd use all my birthdays. Uh, Nicole,
Speaker 1: what did you pay for with points?
Speaker 8: We are going to pay for almost our entire honeymoon
Speaker 8: with credit card plants. We're going on a cruise out
Speaker 8: of La to Mexico, so we're paying for the crew, flights, hotels,
Speaker 8: everything that.
Speaker 2: It's incredible. And when are you getting married? Nicole?
Speaker 8: We're getting married in April. But our family doesn't know
Speaker 8: we're eloping, so.
Speaker 2: Okay, hopefully they don't listen to the show.
Speaker 8: Yeah, hopefully, I love it.
Speaker 2: Are you going?
Speaker 1: You know, since you're going out of California, will you
Speaker 1: be going to Portavarta or Cabo or where you going?
Speaker 8: Yeah, we're going to Cabo port and Maslan.
Speaker 1: I think it's how you feel, Mazza talan real quick
Speaker 1: when you go to Portavarda. My brother owns a restaurant
Speaker 1: there called Barcelona. And go see him and say hello
Speaker 1: to Bill and tell Bill that you're a listener, and
Speaker 1: I guarantee you he'll do something for you.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 8: Awesome, thank you.
Speaker 1: He'll give you some extra points on it too. I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know. Oh no, but they know.
Speaker 1: They do like the tapas and things like that. It's
Speaker 1: like a tapa place. But Bill will bring out you know,
Speaker 1: what the hell is, what is the wine that has
Speaker 1: a bunch of fruit in it and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: We'll get some sangria and some piea and stuff like
Speaker 1: that for you.
Speaker 8: So