Stewardship is a phrase that upset some people yesterday, so I thought to explain the reasons for it again here. I believe that you need to know your basics before you learn advanced technique. This is true in anything. In martial arts you can’t perform complex strikes and throws until you understand your own balance points […]
Archives for July 2014
Hey! Enough with the Drama already
What is it with the Internet and Drama? Get a grip people! I am too busy trying to enjoy the few hours of sleep I can get and perfecting a 9 second diaper change for this bollocks.“Hark! What drama?” I hear you cry.Well yesterday a blogger ‘outed’ the biggest kept secrets in Manufactured Spending for one! […]
Success- Hacking Vegas Comps
I’ll use the term success in its most liberal and artistic form… but I do feel that by factoring in the new angles of this post, my recent Failed – Hacking Vegas Comps becomes a LOT more viable. I know that many readers here are travel fanatics, as such some things I talk of are […]
Failed Experiment – Hacking Casino Comps
I spent several hours on a new hack, in the end I think it fails my own criteria because I was unable to reduce the variance (chance of loss) despite getting the house edge down as low as 1/216 or 0.4%. I thought to share it here regardless, so you can see my logic, and […]
Would you buy 10,000 Ultimate Rewards for $95?
In case you have been living under a rock in the Maldives this past week you have probably heard of the biggest thing in the points world – a 70,000 point Chase Ink offer! Comes with a $95 annual fee. Reader,and credit card aficionado Mike knew of this first, and gave us a hint on The […]
5 Months of Fraudulent Charges and worse on Chase Sapphire Preferred
I know I shouldn’t admit to this, but yeah, I’m human too. I live in one of those travel ‘hacking’ households where one half of the couple is a bit zany, and the other one, my lovely wife, abides the hobby after a taste of free travel, but doesn’t actively participate in card churning or […]
Gateways – The spend concept that boosts your rewards
This is a conceptual post, that will hopefully allow you to be more creative with your spending habits. The notion of gateways assigns a distinct event to each transaction, allowing you to track and maximize the flow of your money. I call it the gateway notion each transaction has the opportunity to stay within […]
#westcoastDo auction winner SJCRussell at $350!
I’m really excited to announce the winning bid for the #westcoastDO was reader SJCRussell. As mentioned, 100% of that has been forwarded on to Rachel and Zack ( family of Drew and Carrie over at TravlisFree) for their adoption fund, and I’ll be covering the ticket to the event myself.I’d like to thank everyone who bid […]
Could you please help me out?
I’m making up some material that ‘encapsulates’ Saverocity, and the blog family within it. With such a broad ranging scope of topics I wanted to know what you thought of or associated with Saverocity regarding topic areas.Please leave your thoughts below in the comments, or via Twitter, Facebook or on The Forum.Some that sprung to […]
Kimpton grows up, with a new Loyalty Program
The folks at Kimpton have asked me to withhold the name of their new loyalty program until it’s release next week, and since they are a decent bunch of people I’ll do just that. As many of you know, I selected the Firesky Resort and Spa in Phoenix for our next DO, and was very […]