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 […]
Should I pay more for a Tumi bag through eBags?
I received the following question today from a reader, and wanted to dig into it to help others with some mental calculations, here is what Tim asked me: I have a points question for you Matt. I want to buy this Tumi bag and found the following offers: Direct from Tumi.com – price: $175 – points […]
When you might not want to transfer to Iberia Avios
Transferring your BA Avios to Iberia Avios can be a great way to save money on award travel. Tickets run at the same mileage price point, such as my recent award from Madrid to New York is 40,000 Avios using BA Avios or Iberia Avios – the difference occurs on the fees side. I have […]
Why I love the new Barclaycard Arrival+
Yeah bitches! It’s time! Time to pimp that affiliate card of mine. I guarantee (if you have half a brain at least) that you will learn something from this post. You won’t learn about TripIT Pro, which I think comes with this (or is it the Discover card? I have a link for that too, […]
Acorn Money – not a review
I’m the kinda guy that signs up for shit these days. There are opportunities that emerge in Beta that make me a lot of money, I am happy to be the guinea pig in exchange for credit card points. Acorn Money App just emailed me to say I made the cut – there was a […]
$10K (non) Manufactured Spend in a click
So my pretties…. would you like to slam $10K on your credit card in a single click? I have just the thing. Loyal3 is an online stock purchasing program that allows you to purchase stocks with a credit card. And they are allowing $10K purchases on their latest bargain…the GoPro IPO. Loyal3 allows customers to […]
Please don’t get into debt to manufacture spend!
My pal over at Chasing The Points has come up with a yet another crazy scheme for riches. Read the post here if you haven’t already: Jumping Into Debt To Manufacture Spend And Invest. We’ve met in NY a couple of times to talk blog, travel, finance, etc and I think he is one of the […]
How much would you pay for Lifetime Star Alliance Gold?
I had a rather lengthy conversation with Gary Leff regarding his post on the $1700 flight deal over this weekend, my gentle commentary brought out some very good opinions in favor of buying the deal, along with some very strange people in opposition to my perspective, or perhaps just my existence…but anyway, yes I can see […]
Do you think a $1700 Flight is a great deal? Really?
Twitter is going Bananas! I even posted a link to this flight deal in The Forum… gotta keep the readers happy don’t you know? But I also wrote today about the bigger picture… F.I.R.E.!! Financial Independence, I shared some details on how I made money, not to brag, but to open up about the value […]
Lazy Money – what’s in Your wallet?
Every now and then I catch myself opening my wallet and having way too much cash in it… it gets me to thinking about how efficiently we are using our money, and what difference we could see from holding it vs putting it to work. Having pondered this for some time I have gone through […]