I saw this post on The Frequent Miler about BigCrumbs.com (that has my referral link) on originally getting back 2.25% when you purchase American Express Gift cards. This idea had me thinking to use my Discover card for my $200 sign up bonus and 5% online category bonus. I originally thought of using the Discover card Read More
American Express Prepaid Gift Card Rite Aid and CVS Deal
A friend of mine alerted me when she saw this at Rite Aid in Queens, NY. Buy 3 American Express gift cards and receive a $10 rebate, up to $30 per household. Each card activation is $4.95. If you need to hit your spend on a new card, this would be a great way to Read More
My Latest Applications Update
The other week, I wrote about my applications and which cards came in. I can now proudly say all of my cards I have been approved and are in my hands. US Bank pulled my credit report from Trans Union and they mailed me a letter stating that my FICO score was 758 which was Read More
How I Load The American Express Campus Edition
The other week, I used my American Express Campus Edition card to reload it, take cash out of an ATM, and reload my Starbucks card. Of the three activities, I was only successful in the latter two. This is the most comprehensive list of Campus Edition details that I know of: Max limit at any Read More
Banner
My graphic designer has given me a finalized version of the banner! It’s been up for a couple of days. What do you think of it? My business card will be very similar to it.   Read More
How I Quickly Make $50 Per Hour
For the ease of math, I value every Ultimate Rewards and Thank You points at 1 cent. Due to the flexibility of it being in their respective program and various cards that you can have in your wallet, these points can be worth more. For instance, if you combine the Chase Freedom and Sapphire Preferred Read More
Bluebird and Serve
In this post, I wrote about the flavors of American Express Reloadable Prepaid Cards. I mistakenly thought that I would be able to have both the Serve and Bluebird cards. As reported online on various other outlets, you can have one or the other. I am able to confirm after I called American Express, they told Read More
My Adventures With Loading The Bluebird
I went to a Walmart the other day to try and load my Bluebird for the first time. Here’s what I learned. My American Express Campus Edition card is coded as credit despite all my efforts to have the cashiers at Walmart to use the card as debit. Here is what I learned also at Read More
Better ways to load your American Express Bluebird
Million Mile Secrets posted about using a debit card to earn American Airlines or Alaska Air miles at a rate of $2 per mile for free, if you load in person at Walmart. I feel that if they were to go that route, setting foot into the Walmart and using the debit card for a Read More
Why Did I Start Blogging?
It has been a month since I started writing and I think I owe it to you, the readers, why I decided to blog. My day job provided me a unique opportunity as Business Analyst where I have learned best practices to analytically think and explain in layman’s terms how the deals work out. There Read More