I am not ashamed to admit that I have used my credit card to purchase a pair of $1.99 tweezers at Walgreens.   Hey, don’t roll those eyes, each dollar spent is a point or two that counts towards a “free” hotel stay and by golly, I’m collecting..

every single one.

  I don’t know “what’s in your wallet” but I swear I can hear the ocean when I pull my Marriott VISA  out of mine.

Below are pictures I took this past summer when we finally cashed in our 2 night hotel “reward.”

 Three amazing pools,

2 hot jacuzzis

and I’m sure if I had looked, I’d have found a partridge in a palm tree.

(Value? According to Marriott – 40,000 points.)

So after this glorious week-end of free lodging the VISA-rewards-counter is sadly back at zero.

But that’s OK, my husband needs some shaving cream.

And you know what they say..A journey of a hundred thousand zillion points begins with one tiny purchase.

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