Next week I’ll be flying out to Vegas to attend TravelCon2. It’s going to be a great event, and I’m really excited to meet up with a lot of the innovators of the game there. The speaker line up is outstanding, but frankly, the real talent is in the room. This is why I always […]
Archives for October 2015
Blasting out Min Spends in Min Time
Due to a rare medical condition, I am unable to MS more than 1hr per week. Any longer and my left eyelid starts to twitch uncontrollably. This makes post App-O-Rama times interesting in the Saverocity household, where I recently took on a requirement of 25K+10K+10K+5K+6K+6K min spends by year end.. Money = TimeI always talk about how […]
5x what, Bro?
Back in the day, and no longer relevant at all.. there was a gig where you could earn 5x URs via prepaids. It was Vanilla Reloads. The gig was super, you’d buy your cards, pay $3.95 for the privilege, and clear 5x$503.95 in Ultimate Rewards. Good times… or so I hear, as I never actually […]
Accounting for Resellers
I’m yet to resell, and I’m not an accountant.. so I feel very confident that this one is in my wheelhouse! But I wanted to address the topic anyway, with some basic concepts. Rule #1Getting a 1099 doesn’t mean you owe taxes. Rule #2Not getting a 1099 doesn’t mean you don’t owe taxes. Rule #3Avoiding […]
Got a bunch of points and no time to travel?
What a horrible situation, and what can be done? I heard this complaint last night while chatting on twitter about the 5x gig, sorry for not pumping out a post immediately with an affiliate link in it at the time, but I don’t like to do that. But what can be done when you’ve got […]
Blogwarz part 14
Do these posts get boring? It’s a rhetorical question, don’t answer if you think they do… I like living in my little bubble. Anyway… The man behind the blog Free-quentFlyerBook, often called FQF (and worse things) had the audacity to disagree with a previous post of mine, talking about the idea of breaking routine. I’ve got […]
Four things I do differently with credit card management
My strategy to credit card management has changed substantially over the past year, here’s a few things that I do differently. I don’t call for retention offersCards are keepers, or they are not. I have a foundation of fee free or permanently waived cards (grandfathered in Citi via the old Citigold program). These I keep. If […]
[Targeted] Free night at Encore for #Travelcon
Check your inboxes! You’ll find nothing that wasn’t there already.Am I the only person here who finds these [Targeted] posts completely pointless? Can we stop with this now? I’m pretty sure if I got a deal awesome enough for you to write a blog post about it then I’ve not forgotten to look at it.And […]
The Golden Rule of Points and Miles
If there is one thing I could share with anyone interested in points and miles, from novice to ‘expert’ it is this: valuation is subjective.The moment you buy into other people’s BS about value you lose all sense of reality, and this will snowball into making more and more bad decisions where points and miles are […]