💁♂️Help Me Balance My Credit Card Deck!
I’ve got a decent mix of cards—each serving a purpose. But am I missing out on better optimization? The Spends are as follows,
Utility Bills🔌 (Electricity + LPG): 2500 -2800 per month (Using Airtel Axis) - 250 CB 💰
Internet/DTH🛜 (Airtel Black): 1100 Approx (Using Airtel Axis) - 250 CB 💰
E-comm🛒: SBI Cashback - Guess I spend 1L+ /year 🤑🫣
Fuel ⛽: Axis IOC (Fd Backed)
Food/Grocery orders🍱: Swiggy HDFC - Food + Instamart 🤑
Offline shopping🏬🛍️: Using above SBI CB or Swiggy HDFC 💳
UPI: SuperMoney 💵 (Fd Backed)
The above seems good to me for spends I do, Let me know in any ways if I can maximize!!!
♦️I have couple of spends below which I am trying to figure out,
👉Airtel Yearly plan prepaid recharges: 3 recharges (Incl Family) + 1 Postpaid with Basic Plan
👉Jio prepaid recharges: 1 (once in 3 month)
👉Insurance payment for 25K * 2 premiums
❌Applied SBI PhonePe Select Black - Rejected (Planned for Insurance/Utility/Recharges)
🤔I think I should apply one more Airtel Axis (not in my name) for Recharges (or) I should buy AmazonPay Vouchers using SBI CB card. But, SBI CB earns 5% with no additional card charges to pay for. And Airtel I do have to pay 590/year, but i get 25% CB on Airtel Recharges.
Any suggestions are welcome!!!
Card charges I now pay for , SBI CB - 1180/year Swiggy - 590/year Airtel Axis - 590/year (All of them has waiver of charges, if 2L/year spend per card)
Posted Nov 10, 2025, 12:01 PM UTC