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Using bank points to book cash flights and travel: a primer

The miles and points game has definitely changed over the past few years. These days, you may get more value using points to book cash flights instead of stressing searching

My Top Of The Wallet Business Credit Card And It’s Not A Chase Or AMEX

In December, I wrote about the 50% bonus about the Bank of America Travel Rewards and Cash Rewards card. A recap: you need to open a brand new credit card with your business

Rocking Q4 With All The Quarterly Cards

As a recap, here are my cards that have a rotating quarterly bonus:

4 Chase Freedom
1 US Bank Cash+
1 Citi Dividend
2 Discover It

For Q4, both the Freedom and Discover overlap on

Family Travel for My Real Life – Splitting the Team

I had originally planned to attend FT4RL3, but unfortunately I’m not going to make it due to real life circumstances. Instead, our family is going to embark on a new

Spinning Denied Credit Card Applications To Approvals

I wrote the other day, that I have 37 active credit cards and I think I am at the max that my salary can support for all the credit that has been

That Thousand Dollar Gig

Now that I’ve wrapped up my semester, I have the opportunity to discuss Matt’s lovely post “Going from a Ten Dollar Gig to a Thousand Dollar Gig.
If we look at

Do This Now [Limited Time Offer]: Open A US Bank Checking Account

Taking a page from Free-quent Flyer with his “Do This Now” series, if you don’t have a US Bank Checking account you should open one now. I mentioned in the past

This Has Not Been A Good Month For Me

The First Store
I’m officially calling a deal dead and it’s cost me nearly 20% for the gift card churn. I was fully expecting a handsome portal pay out and it

I’m Excited, I Was Approved For A Second Discover Card

Last week, Doctor of Credit and I were in a Twitter chat about a special Discover offer.

@ChasingThePts Link for $150 offer? What did you search for?
— Doctor Of Credit (@Drofcr..

Building A Community And The Secret Sauce To Buying United Miles

With the Forum around, Matt has a platform set up to build a community of like minded individuals to collaborate and build upon what we collectively learn in the field. If

How To Further Reduce Your United Miles Cost

I hope I was able to open your eyes in your effort of buying cheaper United miles through gift card churning.
Further, there are two more ways to lower the cost

My Way Of Buying Cheaper United Airline Miles

I started this post in December, 2014 asking a question if you would buy United Airline Miles at 1.8 cents a piece. It’s pricey, I know. You would need to

Selfishly I Am Glad Club Carlson Devalued

Last week, Frequent Miler broke the news of Club Carlson devaluing when a reader noticed the small blurb at the end of the statement. I wouldn’t say I was ready to sign

US Bank Flexperks Difference And News

The other week, I had flown to TravelCon and redeemed my Flexperks for a Virgin America flight. I utilized the $25 reimbursement when redeeming for a flight, which was great, bou..

Must Read If You Are Or Thinking About Being A US Bank Customer

I am a US Bank Flexperks cardholder for a little over 2 years, I like the additional benefits the card offers and the bonus categories. It’s interesting to see that

What I Have Been Doing Recently

As I’ve previously mentioned, you need to follow your favorite blogger. As bloggers in the credit card arena, at some point, our content will intersect. It is inevitable, but there

Another Plan That Did Not Go Accordingly

Last week, I wrote about my plan for a price match and how it didn’t quite go the way I wanted it to. Today, I want to let you know about

Important Posts from This Week You May Have Missed

This has been one crazy week! We saw news about an 8% credit card, sadly it’ll be going away next year.

@ChasingThePts Rakuten is removing bonus categories next year, press team

2015 and 2016 Credit Card ReEvaluation

This post is more of the long range plan that I have for my credit cards, hence the long winding road picture. Earlier this year, I wrote about my latest

How To Automate Changing Prepaid Card PIN

In the past, I purposely avoided cards that required you to dial in a number to change the PIN. If I can avoid the phone I will. I was at

US Bank Cash+ Devalues A Bit With Shifting Categories And Removing Drug Stores

US Bank offers the Cash+ card as a credit card where you can choose your 2% categories and 5% cashback categories. When the cards first launched, there were no limits

What’s Up With US Bank Flexperks?

I received a piece of ‘junk’ mail from US Bank notifying me about their American Express Flexperks edition. I currently have their Visa card and it’s treated me pretty nicely