Yearly Archives: 2012
The many flavors of Vanilla
I write a lot about Vanilla. In the post “Almost too good to be true” I wrote about the Vanilla Prepaid Visa card. The...
Amex Prepaid cards for foreign travel
In the post “One card to rule them all” I introduced the idea of buying Vanilla Reload cards at Office Depot and using them...
A Battle for Diamond
With the introduction of Citi’s new Hilton HHonors Reserve card, there are now two options for big spenders to earn top tier Diamond status...
A brief note from Alaska
Hi everyone. This is my first ever post created using my iPhone. We've just spent a couple of amazing days in Alaska (despite our...
Frustration by Amazon
Every now and then a shopping portal offers a fantastic deal that’s too good to pass up even if you don’t really want to...
Sears 10X: Leveraging the Deal
10 Ultimate Rewards points per dollar is a great return for Sears purchases. In this post I’ll list numerous ways to leverage this deal. ...
Ultimate Rewards Mall August Edition
Sears brings back 10X! Every month, the Ultimate Rewards Mall has new month-long specials. Last month, I wrote about the July specials in the...
Ultimate Rewards Mall Reminders and Predictions
At the beginning of each month, new promotions appear within the Ultimate Rewards Mall. Tomorrow, I’ll provide full coverage of what’s new: both good...
Target’s 4 Mile Moment
Last Tuesday, thanks to a tip from SteelSnow, I wrote “Breaking News: Today only buy Target gift cards 10% off!” Target gift cards are...
OfficeMax Hotel Savings
Until July 28 (Saturday), OfficeMax is offering a $50 hotel cash card when you make a purchase of $175 or more. The...
Ink Plus now publicly available!
For quite a while Chase has offered another Ink business card besides the publicly available Ink Bold, Ink Classic, and Ink Cash. The Ink...
I get by (and to Alaska) with a little help from my friends
In my recent post “Where to?” I mentioned that my family had scrapped plans for Paris in favor of either an Alaskan cruise or...
How to spend $10,000 in three months, and earn 90K Ultimate Rewards along the...
We’ve all been there. We get excited about a credit card signup offer… or two… or three… Next thing we know, we have card(s)...
Breaking News: Today only buy Target gift cards 10% off!
Put a $100 gift card in your basket and checkout. With an electronic gift card, you should see this: And then on the...
