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 […]
Spending money. The struggle is real.
Yesterday we decided to change plans and cancel our trip to Aruba. I’d booked the trip speculatively and had got as far as 4 nights (2×2) at the Radisson, which is now a Hilton, and booked us flights one way on JetBlue. We were scheduled to go on Feb 4th, and still debating whether to […]
2016 Points and Miles Strategy Ideas
It’s interesting to hear other people talk about their points and miles woes… a discerning eye can learn a lot about the volume earned, and sophistication of the earner from the way in which things trouble people.While some people seek to compartmentalize their points and miles life, I like to incorporate it as much as possible. […]
Rethinking Loyalty – the next frontier
I’m undecided as to whether loyalty programs are stupid or genius at this time. I see them as stupid as I can gain huge value from them, but in the same breath, I see otherwise smart people falling over themselves to gain ‘status’. Status is a bad long term bet. You buy something with real […]
The art of win
Sun Tzu believed that wins should be quickly earned, and the real skill of a commander is in the ability to assess the opponent, and the opportunity for victory. The war should be fought swiftly to avoid economic losses: “No long war ever profited any country: 100 victories in 100 battles is simply ridiculous. Anyone […]
Travel Planning (from Hell)
Travel Planning has been backburnered recently, but we have deadlines looming, here’s the state of affairs.Booked Trip 1 NCL Escape from Miami (Dec) Trip 2 Aruba (Feb) Trip 3 NCL Epic from Barcelona (Apr) Trip 4 UK (Aug) Out of this, only the Escape is really ‘booked’.. hence the travel planning: ArubaI booked 2×2 Nights at […]
Are you a candidate for Specialization?
Last night on Twitter we were discussing how mind blowingly knowledgeable HaleyB is on Disney. I thought to myself, even after reading her presentation from FT4RL that I still just didn’t ‘get it’ and researching and booking would take many hours.Let’s say I was to go for 2 days (I have no idea if that is […]
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 […]
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 […]