Small Business Saturday in Teaneck, NJ - Where to Go?

I've now registered my 22 American Express cards between myself and my wife and got my confirmation emails so I am ready to go.  If only the promotion was still $25 a card!  Oh well.

Now it's time to figure out where to spend the money.

Small Business Saturday is this coming Saturday, November 30th.  If you spend $10 or more at any participating small business, you will get a $10 credit to your American Express card.

You can get some more info here and register your cards here for the promotion.

Kosher places in Teaneck that are participating

The easiest way to figure out who is confirmed as participating is to go to the SBS map.  You can put in 07666 and dining to find Kosher restaurants in Teaneck.  If any of these restaurants offer gift cards you can buy them in $10 increments and use it a different day as well

Here is a quick list of what I have found that I know is kosher. or sells kosher items  There are others there that I am not familiar with but are likely kosher as well:

ChopStix

Nobo

Sammy's Pizza and Bagels

Sushi Metsuyan

Kosher Experience

Dougie's 

Mocha Bleu

Noah's Ark

Bumble Berry

Wine Country

Carvel on Hackensack Ave.

I'm sure there are others.  If you find any please leave a comment and I can add it to the list.

Small Business Saturday - Register Your Cards Now!

Update: Registration is now live!  In addition, the terms and conditions explicitly exclude online transactions.

Disclaimer: I receive a referral commission for the following link(s) and I greatly appreciate supporting the site: American Express Serve

This Sunday, November 24th, at 12am Mountain Time is when you can start registering your american express cards for Small Business Saturday.

You have to register each individual card at shopsmall.com

Every American Express card that has a separate account number on the front is eligible for a $10 credit if you spend $10 or more on November 30th at a Small Business on that card.  If the card is issued by American Express, authorized users will have a separate account number are eligible as well.

- Prepaid cards are not eligible, except for American Express Serve® which is eligible.
- Corporate cards are not eligible.

Last year, I bought gift cards from Eichlers.com and combined all the gift cards into one order so that I wouldn't have to pay for shipping on each order.

If you live in Teaneck, I know that Persian Grill has participated in years past and they sell gift cards so you can buy multiple gift cards and come back on a different night as well.

Amazon Prime Free For One Year with American Express

You can now get a year of Amazon Prime when you sign up for certain American Express cards.

Buy Amazon Prime with your card and you will automatically get a $79 statement credit to cover the cost of Amazon Prime for the first year.

You must be a new prime user to qualify and you need to sign up within three months of being approved for the American Express card.  You also need to spend the amount necessary to collect the sign up bonus to qualify  (ie - $1,000 on Blue everyday within 3 months)


Sign up for Amazon Prime from these sites:


AMEX Platinum Sign up

AMEX Blue Cash Preferred Sign up

AMEX Blue Cash Everyday Sign up

AMEX Enhanced Business Gold Sign up

75,000 Page Views!

Thank you everyone for the continued success of the blog!


It took 14 and a half months to get my first 25,000 page views.

It took 7 and a half months to get the next 25,000 page views.


It took only 4 and half months to get the final 25,000 page views.


Thank you Koren for giving out a free siddur and jump starting my pageviews.  Here is a chart of total pageviews and you can see where Koren gave away a free siddur right there.

The numbers seem down for this month because it is still in the middle of the month, they are in fact on track to be the best month yet!  Thank you all!

Sign up for Chase Paperless Statements and get $5

Update: 11/19 - My $5 credit posted as shown in the picture below.  I signed up for paperless on 10/27

Chase will give you $5 when switch from Paper to Paperless statements.

The bonus will come after 6 weeks.  Enroll before the end of the year.

I personally hate paperless statements.  I know myself and I will only check the statement if it comes in the mail.  That being said, $5 is $5 and I can deal with paperless for 6 weeks and then switch back.

Credit Card Sign Up Increases and Other News

Disclaimer: I receive a referral commission for the following link(s) and I greatly appreciate supporting the site: Credit Sesame

Disclaimer - The Discover offers are no longer valid.

• Discover It - Normally no sign up bonus, now it is $150 for spending $750 in the first 3 months
• Discover now offers a free monthly FICO score on your statement.  Alternatively, you can use Credit Sesame.  
• Advantage to Credit Sesame is that you can get free credit monitoring that will tell you when there is a new credit account in your name or if you are ever late on a payment, which has saved me in the past.
• Discover it is one of my go to credit cards for online purchases.  They often have the best cashback offer from Shop Discover and the last two years they have given 5% back for purchases made online in Quarter 4.  
• They have released the 5% categories for next year and Quarter 4 is "Holiday Shopping,"  which may or may not include online purchases.
• No annual fee

• Chase Freedom - Increased sign up bonus to $200 from $100 for spending $500 in the first 3 months.
• No annual Fee

• Chase Sapphire Preferred - Increased sign up bonus from 40,000 to 50,000 points (can be redeemed for $500 or transferred to many airline and hotel partners for even greater value) for spending $3,000 in the first 3 months.  In addition, you will get another $5,000 points for adding an authorized user
• Annual fee increases from $95 to $125, which is waived the first year.

If you have applied for any of these cards within the last 90 days with a smaller bonus, send a secure message asking to be matched to the new offer.  It's always worth a shot.

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Up to 27% off Dunkin Donuts and 24% off Starbucks from Raise!

Disclaimer: I receive a referral commission for the following link(s) and I greatly appreciate supporting the site: Top Cashback, RaiseDisclaimer - The Discover offers are no longer valid.

From now until the end of 11/17 (Sunday night), take $5 off a $100 purchase of already reduced gift cards at Raise.com with coupon code HOLLY5 - That's 5% off.

If you are a new customer you can use coupon code RAISE60AF and save $5 off $60.  I don't know if they can be combined but you can get greater savings because you are spending less.

Start your shopping from Top Cashback and you'll get an additional 2% cashback into your account.

Pay with your Discover Card and you will get 5% cashback on any online purchases until the end of December (limit of $75 cashback for the quarter).



Example Savings:

Dunkin' Donuts is 15% off - tack on 12% for the extra savings and that is 27% off!

Starbucks is 12.4% off - tack on 12% for the extra savings and that becomes 24.2% off !

Try whatever store you like and just add 12% to know your savings.  Keep in mind that Top Cashback now only gives you 1% cashback from Raise if you buy gift cards of Target, Walmart, Lowe's, Macy's, Home Depot and Amazon