In the last few weeks, I have received a tons of feedback about gift card churning. There is a lot of interest and requests on the basics. A big shout out to As The Joe Flies for coming up with some great questions and Kenny joking during FT4RL that he needed Circles and Arrows. So here is Read More

When Miles Whip posted on Doctor of Credit that Evolve was not charging fees for using a credit card because it was coming up as debit, I quickly reached over the closest Mastercard I had: Barclay’s Miles and More and dropped a grand into my auto insurance. On a similar note, I wish I had Read More

Just wanted to say one word: “wow.” In the last two weeks after chatting and meeting with everyone, there’s one underlying, simple thing I wanted to mention that people might not realize. Everyone in this hobby are entrepreneurs and could very well be a CEO. We might not be in the typical sense of “entrepreneur” Read More

Recently, I read two different credit cards on two different topics. I will start with this one:   Citi Double Cash: Originally, there was a lot of speculation in the past about how the 1% and the second 1% will pay out. Thankfully, Travel With Grant has the Citi Double Cash reviewed and how the cash back Read More

Before we began 2015, I thought about my next credit cards and what to close and open. I actually wound up changing the plans and product changed my Sapphire Preferred earlier than I had expected to fully utilize the first quarter bonus. My Latest Cards: In my latest round of cards I applied for or Read More

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, bought some Krave jerky and a nap pack. When I called in to get the $25 credit, I also asked if there were any spend bonuses Read More

In the last two weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to play around with Raise as being a bulk seller. What I’ve previously said about Raise being prohibitively expensive at a 15% commission is only applicable when you are a non bulk seller. As a bulk seller, your rates will vary. Stay tuned for a further Read More

Family Travel For Real Life is organized by Dia @ The Deal Mommy, and this was the second event with the first in Washington DC in 2014. You can read the live blogging series from Dan on Points With A Crew (can you believe it? When he travels, it’s always a party of 8).   Family Travel Read More

Scott Mackenzie Scott opened his presentation with what loyalty program should you bank your airline miles. His answer? It depends. Those two words have probably been the most used words and sentence combination I have heard during my MBA program. There have been numerous example situations where we’re given a bunch of statements with missing information Read More