The Money, Ya Bish.

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I'll have the full spend for this trip, but it wasn't easy.

It'll come down to the wire. I have $4800 in da bank now, with one check to go before the trip. After rent and a couple other necessaries coming out of that check, I'll be able to pay down my MGM CC by $500. That will leave me with the needed $1200 and a little airport bar money.

Paying down the CC a bit, along with some prudent spending over the next two weeks, will get me to Vegas with more than $5000 spendable on the card. I won't use nearly that much, but it makes it comfortable in that I won't have to worry about it when I - whip it out - in Vegas. The credit card. Moving on. 

I may take the Apple card and its $7K+ limit with me just as an emergency backup but I can't think of any scenario that I would use it. Guess that's why it's the emergency card. Wanna bang the MGM card exclusively to rack up sweet 3X points on spend. That takes a little pressure off the cash in pocket too.

So it'll be the full $1K per day in hard cold cash and another $5K avail to handle meals and MGM drinkies. Of which there will be many. MANY. Hopefully will come back with enough cash to cover the spend in town but if it all goes, it all goes. That's the point of saving for a Vegas trip. You don't expect to have any left, you're just pleasantly surprised if you do.

 


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