You’ve likely heard the adage, that a dollar saved is a dollar earned, or indeed two dollars earned, but how does this amazing phenomenon occur really, and is it ‘magic’ like compound interest, or something else entirely? My $175 LessonLast year I signed up for the Amex Business Rewards Gold credit card with a 75,000 […]
On Solo Travel, and appreciation
Would you ‘Gift’ your spouse/significant other solo travel? This was a question I posed recently on Twitter, as I was thinking about our summer travel plans. The results of the poll are below, and a bit of a mixed bag, and the topic is an interesting one. What do you think about 'gifting' your spouse […]
Project Fi vs T Mobile side by side in the Field
I wrote some time ago about the two services offered by Google (Project Fi) and T Mobile, with a particular interest on the travel applications. Both services offer some great things to travelers, but the argument on which was actually better remains anecdotal.Here’s a background post on this for you who missed it. In that […]
Credit Card links!!!
Update- in a seemingly unrelated incident, we no longer have access to credit cards affiliate links. As you know, we at Saverocity love credit cards, and hope you do too. As a reminder, we offer a sophisticated array of cards through our link saverocity.com/creditcards which should appeal to the most discerning palate.It came to our attention that […]
Can funny money be worth more than real money?
Funny money can be found in the form of points/miles/cash like points/resort credit and whatnot. Interestingly, the default approach to valuing ‘funny money’ is that is worth less than real money. Logically, this makes sense, as the money must be used within a closed ecosystem, whereas real money possesses that fungible nature that crosses borders.But […]
Leverage
In this post I’d like to attempt to merge two topics from the forum, and add in a little more food for thought. The overall topic that we will be looking at is the cost of cruising full time, or pretty much living on a cruise ship, the ghetto way.The neat way to live on a […]
Thoughts on The Points Guy AMA on @reddit
So it happened. The clusterf*ck that is Reddit hosted Brian, The Points Guy, and it got run over by a steamroller. Ultimately, I’m somewhat happy about the end result. I don’t like bullying, and I feel that the AMA (Ask me anything) may have crossed that line, but I do like that there is a […]
How To: Book your first trip to Lithuania (or anywhere)
I came across a tweet earlier this week from an academic in the planning world over at Kansas State University. He has a buddy who is trying to get to Lithuania to present his work on a recent paper. They decided to set up a Go Fund me to help support the trip, the link is […]
Why is reselling so attractive to the MS world?
As I keep my finger on the pulse of the game, and MS in particular (by reading TBB) I’ve heard of this thing called ‘Reselling’. Apparently it is the future of MS. So much so that several people I know have quit their jobs to resell full time. There must be a lot of points to […]
Gatekeepers help efficiency
One of the most frustrating things to see is the blind pursuit of points, miles, rebates and free stuff at the cost of time. In just the past week I’ve seen a number of such deals where people sell their time in exchange for something trivial, thus preventing the achievement of bigger and better things.Here’s […]