Frequent Miler released the leaderboard for week 1 of #milemadness to mixed reviews. Many of the comments seemed disappointed that the secrets were not included in the post, so I thought to go into that here. Opinions expressed here are mine alone, and do not represent other players or those of Frequent Miler. I’ll start […]
Archives for March 2014
Evaluating Risk and Reward within Manufactured Spending
I wrote recently about a new idea that came to me for generating some ‘free cash’, it leveraged a tool to help funnel money back onto your credit card, reviews of my concept were mixed, I thought it might be timely to explore risk and reward based upon that, so that we might fully understand […]
What’s actually in my wallet, and what needs to go!
I consider myself something of a credit card aficionado, but the funny thing with talking about all these cards all the time coupled with being insanely busy is sometimes the reality doesn’t gel with the theory. This is similar somewhat to your investments as portfolio drift occurs, so every now and then its good to […]
Tips for Successful and Efficient Vanilla Reload Shopping in New York City
This is a guest post from The Miles Professor, who also took me (I did think I was the only one…) out and about on a fantastic tour of the city to share her tips and tricks for locating Vanilla Reloads in one of the most competitive environments we know.New York is a competitive city […]
The Chase Disney Card – worth a second look?
As some of you may know, we have just returned from our ‘babymoon’ to Carmel, California and we are expecting our first child in June. Of course, the first thing I can think of is how can we get to Disney for free, and taking a look at the Chase Disney Card proved quite interesting […]
Flight Review, Service beats Product – American Airlines old tart vs young filly
I just returned from a short vacation to Carmel, California which I would highly recommend to anyone who enjoys things that are beautiful and nature in its most powerfully magnificent form. To get there we has two completely different experiences with American Airlines, which prompted some further thoughts on service and product, something that I […]
Let the #milemadness Commence!
Today is the first day of March, and hails the start of #milemadness the Manufactured Spending Tournament. The players are raring to go and have been polishing their credit cards so they all look like Platinum, and honing their skills ready for this month of manufactured spending.Competition will be fierce, and a real pleasure to […]