Episode Details

It's your money — make it work for you.

Eric lets Andy in on the back-pocket tool Midwesterners already know: Menards' 11% rebate. Everything in the store qualifies, the money comes back as Menards credit, and the whole program runs on one bet — that most people will never send the rebate in. (The guys put redemption at maybe 20–30%. Don't be that 70%.)

Eric still buys most of his materials from his supply houses, but his Menards is seven miles from the shop — ten miles closer than any supply house and right on his daily route — with a plumbing department good enough for the quick grabs: bag traps, Lexel, rags, spray foam. And the rebate math gets serious at scale: his brother-in-law built a house buying everything he could during 11% periods, rolling rebate checks into the next stage of the build until the rebates had paid for about $45–50,000 worth of cabinets.

Also in this one: a moment of silence for Shop Pay points, Andy's Amazon faucet-trim habit, the Delta rapid-expedite trim program that saved a job when an order never made it from bid to order, the ethics of showroom shopping then buying online, glycol feeders at half price out of Canada, a QuickBooks category named "Menards," and the house rule both guys live by — never pay with debit when a rewards card exists.

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