TurboTax screwed you over? Check out H&R Block for free
TurboTax has just announced a new product line change that will require many people upgrade their accounts in order to file taxes. The changes impact the people using the Deskto..
TaggingMiles Weekly Travel News Round-up: January 9, 2015
It’s the first news round-up of 2015! This week’s edition includes mistaken identities, airplane videos, and a whole other mess of stories you need to read over the weekend.
The ..
Traveling Overseas With Kids? Keep These 2 Words in Mind
Deal Girl in Antigua, Guatemala, where we spent 2 weeks in the same condo. August 2011.
I’m in the process of planning our 3rd extended International family trip. This one is
Home for the Holidays: Eating in Taipei
I was a bit sad we didn’t get to eat as much as we had hoped in Taiwan. Don’t get me wrong, we ate often and we ate well, but
Using OpenFlights.org to find airline routes to the Seychelles
One of the best pieces of advice about finding award space that I could offer is – find the most difficult leg of the itinerary, and work from there. There are
Friday Special – I’m such a schmuck
I seem to be catching myself making a series of stupid decisions recently, so I thought it might make a good series for the blog: Stupid Stuff I did this
My Way Of Draining Out The Remaining Cash And Gift Card Churn Better
The other day, I wrote about how I leave two cents on my prepaid cards and talked about using a point of sale system to automatically drain the card out.
About that AA Executive card you kept…
Just about a year ago, Citi gave us a perfect storm of offers with the American Airlines Executive card: a 75K miles bonus that then ballooned to 100K, statement credits
How to be a Terrible Travel Blogger
Travel too much to have time to write about your travels
Forget how to use certain features of WordPress, even though you’ve been playing around with it for almost a year
Spend
Budgets are Bollocks
I’m starting to prep for my silly month of spending no money, and was going to ‘update my budget’.. however, full disclosure here, I don’t have one and I think
Why bother writing about retailer credit cards?
My last two posts have been about retail credit cards, with many of the cards detailed therein being somewhat obscure and in some cases of little or no use to
Justifying Hotel Elite Status in 2015
I’ll be the first to admit – I’m a big fan of hotel elite status. I’ve even had twitter conversations about hotel elite status, but as 2014 is coming to
One More Plan That Did Not Go Right
I’m currently on a roll of plans not going as I wanted them to go. You can read about it: for the first one, my price match purchase and the
A list of Synchrony credit cards, part 1: the ones I actually have
The retail card extravaganza continues! In my last post, I talked about credit cards issued by Comenity, one of the two major retailer credit card issuers. The other one is
True Deal Mommy Confession: I’m Vendoming Vietnam
Executive Suite at the Sheraton Hanoi. At least it’s only 8000 starpoints a night.
Credibility is the most important asset a blogger can have. With that in mind, I need to
Check Your Bank Of America Card – Free Points With This Gift Card Churn
Bank Of America’s BankAmeriDeals is like American Express’ Sync Offers where you need to register for an offer before you use your credit card. I’m not sure when this was
Is Hidden City Ticketing Bad For Everybody?
It’s a commonly known hack among the initiated. Even Trevor wrote about how the “hidden city” trick can be good for the pocketbook. But is hidden city ticketing a bad practice t..
Considering Amazon Prime? Get an Unlocked Fire Phone for Just $90 More, Today Only
Saw an interesting deal from Amazon on the: Amazon Fire Phone, 32GB (Unlocked GSM). It’s down to $189 from $449 today only. What I find especially appealing is that it
Why Your Point Transfers To Other Programs Take Certain Amounts Of Time
Last week, I wrote about retailer’s operations in both coupons and how their point of sales operate.
Today, I wanted to quickly discuss point transfers. There’s many programs tha..
In case you weren’t aware. I’m an expert.
Last night I picked up two copies of the Ritz Carlton with 140K bonus, for $395 a pop, and I was pretty excited about it too.
Today Josh over at the Forum
Starwood Announces SPG Double Play – But Is It Worth A Double Take?
Photo: W Chicago – Lakeshore, Illinois, USA/Courtesy: Starwood Hotels/DMCA Fair Use
You may have already received the e-mail this morning – but for those who haven’t, it’s time t..
Ready To Jump Through Some Hoops? 2 Free Hyatt Nights or Week Condo Stay with $250 Rite-Aid Spend
Ok, I’m starting this one with a caveat: there are a LOT of strings attached. However, if you’re flexible and willing to take the risk of not getting your first
Flying All Nippon Airways Business Class on the 777-300ER
This is part of our Thanksgiving Round the World trip, you can find my initial thoughts / intro here, Flying All Nippon Airways Square Class, The Grand Hyatt Tokyo review, The