I got my tickets for Christmas!

I know it is early, but I just bought my plane tickets to go to France for Christmas.
I knew it would be expensive at that time, so I saved up $1000 for it.

The total was $1,300.00 for direct flights, which is not that bad (I wanted direct flights since last year British Airways lost my luggage in New York and spending a week vacation without my suitcase was really annoying).

I used the $113 that I got from my credit card cashback so the flight really cost me $1,187.00

Cash back credit card

Many personal finance blogs advise not to have a credit card, saying that it costs money and it is too tempting.

Personally, I have a credit card, I pay everything with it and you know what, I manage to make money with it! I have a 1% cash-back on all my transactions and I never cary any balance.

I pay it off every month.

It requires to keeps track on my expenses so that I'm sure that I can pay it off.

I've made more than $100.00 since I got this 1% cash-back credit card, for spending money I would have spent anyway :)