Keep the change…
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Today I bought gas using Bank of America’s “Keep the Change” program. Basically the program rounds up your purchases up to the nearest whole dollar when you use your check card and matches that amount.
In New Jersey it is against the law to pump your own gas so it’s all full service here. I’ve heard about people who self-pump and pumping $1.01 worth of gas back to back until they were full.
$1.01 round up = $2.00 = $0.99 match = $0.02 per gallon of gas
Too bad I can’t do that here in New Jersey. However I asked the attendant at the station to pump $10.01 worth of gas. I told him some BS about how I needed to spend over $10 on the card and that explained the 1 cent. He laughed and didn’t mind doing it. So technically I got a 10% rebate on my gas.
In other news… I’m sorry, I find this so retarded I had to post it. “Art” of numbers 1 to 1000. I found out about it on the Stop Buying Crap blog.
Maybe I don’t appreciate art… or maybe I have enough common sense to not shell out hundreds of dollars for a painting with a number on it. I don’t know.
