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How to start travel hacking when your budget can’t hack it
On the last Observation Deck podcast, I had the pleasure of talking to Jonathan Khoo and Joe Cortez about a wide variety of topics. I’ve always loved having Joe as
Housekeeping – making sure your miles and points are in order
I know there are a lot of hyper organized people who play this game. I happen to not be one of them, much to my wife’s chagrin. I am organized
Why I mostly ignore point valuations
This post has been a long time coming. It’s been in draft for awhile, but I’ve been procrastinating. The other day, however, I saw on Twitter someone had used a
ForçaChape
2016 has really sucked. A lot of my thoughts today have been devoted to a soccer team that I didn’t even know existed yesterday. As I’m sure you’ve heard by now,
This may be only amusing to me…
When Matt took me on at Saverocity, he had one overriding message: write what you enjoy and write what you want. Normally I avoid writing about other blogs but I’ve
The 5/24 guideline is dumb but easy to enforce
I’ve been thinking lots of thoughts about Chase’s 5/24 guideline so I figured I might as well write them down. If you are unaware, it is Chase’s arbitrary automatic declines of
Fourth Year Reflections
Four years ago I started this tiny little blog to, what else, help my friends and family! Four years later…I remain a tiny blog. I am not exaggerating or being
My first (last?) ever mileage run
Back in June, I wrote about passing on the Jetblue/Virgin America mileage run deal. Basically I said it wasn’t worth the time or extra effort.Oops.I’ll blame @robertdwyer for co..
On the value of not chasing deals
There is a really good deal going on right now. As always in the blogosphere I have no idea who reported it first, but I first saw it on Angelina
Ads suck. What else is new?
There has been a lot of hubbub about the mommy blogger rant that’s gone viral in the past few days. I credit Dia for bridging it into the miles and
Are you focusing on your goals?
“Think on the end before you start.” – Fortune Cookie
In my presentation at FT4RL, a good portion of my talk was dedicated to hammering home the point that it is
Award Booking Tips overheard at FT4RL
So I made a rookie mistake presenting at FT4RL – too many slides! I had to rush through a few of my points on booking awards so I thought I’d
Hoarding Miles
This post was meant to be written shortly after the Alaska Air Emirates devaluation, but life got in the way. After Alaska suddenly made the miles and points world collectively
Do people make a commission on buy mile promotions?
One of the things that has always annoyed me about the miles and points blog world is the incessant pushing of buy or share miles promotions. I actually think it
Daring to Disney: Things I wished I knew before I went to Disney
For someone who hadn’t been to Disney in a long time, the trip seemed daunting. So much has changed since I was a kid and of course I wasn’t planning
What’s your blindspot?
On Episode 25 of the Saverocity Observation Deck, I went on a little rant about how Delta gets so much crap even though they release a lot more award space
Making sure the Hyatt Diamond deal doesn’t get the best of me
For about six hours, it was possible to match almost any hotel chain status to Hyatt Diamond. Ironically, the PR move was one of the many things that has ended
Reselling isn’t for everyone – including me
Ever since the death of AMEX prepaids, reselling has become the new manufactured spending. People are calling it the future of MS, while others are lamenting that it’s going to
How much would I pay for an Ultimate Reward point?
Free-quent Flyer kicked off an interesting discussion on Twitter the other day:
@FreequentFlyr perhaps $300
— Saverocity (@Saverocity) February 4, 2016
It’s something that we ..
Your Guide to Starting and Following Twitter Beef
I’ll be the first to admit I’m not the best at Twitter. We can’t all be as hilarious as Matt and George:
@Saverocity @pdxtraveltips @PFDigest Well, I have been folding for
Deep Thoughts on Expensive Ice Skating
If you’ve been following my adventures on Twitter or Instagram you’ll know that we schlepped two kids around NYC for the past 30 hours or so. It was a pretty
Saverocity Observation Deck 2015 Award Nominees – Part 1
To celebrate a year of podcasting at the Saverocity Observation Deck, we decided to close out 2015 with a bit of fun. Joe Cortez, Trevor, and I convened for over
Missing Deals, Making Deals – Serve, Rite Aid, and Diamonds
So the news hit today that Rite Aid and Dollar General will be allowing fee free cash loads onto Serve. The only reason why this matters is because there are