Refund!

Like I wrote about in this post, we planned our family summer vacation. Not only did we plan it, but we paid for non-refundable airline tickets, too. And then Covid 19 happened.

Many of the places we planned to visit on our trip require a 2-week quarantine or are only in Phase 1 of their opening. We couldn't go to anywhere in the places we planned to travel to... Major bummer!

And our tickets were non-refundable. Major bummer!

In doing research to try to get us a refund or voucher, The Husband came across some "law" that went into effect in April that said if there was a major change in your flight, you could request a refund. Then he did even more research!

Our original flight had one layover and a 5:00 pm arrival time into Ohio. When The Husband was checking our flight times, he saw that we now had two layovers and an 11:55 pm arrival into Ohio. He called the customer service reps at Southwest and they were beyond helpful! They said, due to the change we could have a full refund instead of just a voucher. But they were sure to let us know they were extending the use of the voucher out until September 2022. (Quite honestly, I was just happy that we could even get a voucher. And a voucher that we would be able to use. But I was happier with a full credit!)

We opted to get our money back because we didn't want to have $3000 tied up for an unknown amount of time and in such curious circumstances as we are currently living in.

Now this is where things really get exciting for me! We put the tickets on our credit card (to earn points) but transferred the money from our savings account and paid for them already. When the credit hits our account, it will knock out $3000 of debt!

Of course, we still have a lot of credit card debt... but this will definitely be a step in the right direction!

I'm actually super excited to do my debt update this month because it should be good! There should be a big drop in our debt, and put us so much closer to meeting our goal of being under $10000 of credit card debt by the end of the year.

In many ways, I wish that money could go back in to our savings account, but I'm glad it's going to help our overall financial situation! And the reality is, this is our money working for us! And a refund is better than a "credit" or a voucher!

Please continue to with us luck in our debt journey!