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Using credit cards to pay these bills is one of the best strategies for racking up credit card points for travel or cash-back rewards.
What you need to know before you pay bills with a credit card:
- Double check to see if there are fees or exceptions for using your credit card.
- If the percentage you’re paying in fees outweighs the percentage you’re getting in rewards points, it’s not worth it! Use cash instead.
- Pay off your credit card every month to avoid paying interest!
- For any regular service or monthly lessons you pay for that don’t take a credit card, ask to pay via PayPal in order to use your credit card!
Here’s the list:
- Amazon Prime
- Annual home warranty
- Back-paid taxes
- Cable
- Car insurance premiums
- Cell phone
- Charitable donations
- Child care
- College tuition
- Dental insurance premiums
- Dry cleaning
- Federal income tax
- Furniture purchase payments
- Gaming subscriptions
- Gym membership
- Health insurance premiums (except Blue Cross/Shield and Humana)
- Home insurance premiums
- Home phone line (landline)
- Homeowners Association (HOA dues)
- Hospital/medical
- Household cleaning
- Hulu
- iTunes (Apple TV)
- Internet
- Lawn care
- Luxury/shaving/beauty subscriptions (e.g., Honest Company, Dollar Shave Club)
- Magazine subscriptions
- Medical co-pays
- Monthly parking pass
- Monthly prescriptions
- Natural gas
- Netflix
- Newspaper subscriptions
- Pest control
- Pet daycare/boarding
- Pet insurance
- Private K-12 school tuition
- Property tax
- Rent
- Renter’s insurance premiums
- Season tickets/passes
- Sewer
- Sling TV
- State income tax
- Trash
- Veterinary bills
- Vision insurance premiums
- Warehouse club memberships
- Water
- YMCA
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