My Kiva spend experiment
For the past 8 years, Kiva loans have been a significant part of my credit card spend strategy. With Kiva, it's possible to increase credit card spend and do good in the world, all...
Easy Delta elite status boost
Airline elite status is great to have if you can get it easily. With elite status you can get free checked bags, free premium seat selection, reduced change fees, chances for first class upgrades,...
Cyber Monday Deals [Master Post w/ updates throughout the day]
Cyber Monday is here once again and many great deals are now on. This post will serve as a Cyber Monday Master List of deals that may be of interest (including many continuing on since Black...
Last Chance Deals: Tons Of Gift Card Deals, 150% LifeMiles Bonus, Black Friday Deals...
Welcome to our weekly list of what’s ending this week as well as a collection of some other deals that are due to end soon.
There are lots of deals ending this week including the increased...
Spoiled low-hanging fruit, opportunities to grab now, Hyatt disappointment and more
This week around the web: the spoiling of low-hanging fruit through BankDirect that likely spells the end of one avenue to easy miles. Also, read about opportunities to scoop up while you can: from...
Easy money, easy elite nights, earning more rewards and more
In this week's reader feedback section, we address what there's left to say about that Mint coin deal and we talk easy ways for you to pick up more credit card spend without picking...
5 easy ways to increase credit card spend without going broke
Credit card companies offer huge incentives for opening new credit card accounts. 50,000 point offers used to be considered big, but these days 60K, 70K, and 80K offers dominate. Most of these offers, though,...
Searching for Hyatt SLH extreme luxury
Last week, One Mile at a Time wrote "AMAZING: Redeem Hyatt Points At $2,350+ Per Night Nicaraguan Private Island." This got my attention. Calala Island is an all-inclusive resort that is part of SLH...
Low-hanging fruit you ought to be picking
For years, my wife and I hustled on easy opportunities: we were young and ready to strike while the iron was hot when we saw a chance to make a quick flip or earn...
Book Marriott meeting online for $100, get 10 elite nights
As we approach the end of the year, some of us are looking at our elite status situation and realizing that we haven't yet met our goals. If you were hoping to reach high...
Last Chance Deals: 20% Off All 3rd Party Gift Cards, Several Transfer Bonuses &...
Welcome to our weekly list of what’s ending this week as well as a collection of some other deals that are due to end soon.
It's coming to the end of another month which means there's...
Is Turkish a bad deal? An easy deal most of us missed, a terrible...
This week around the web, we have a number of good reads from the last two weeks as I missed the chance to highlight some of these last weekend. From an argument I can't...
Causing controversy unexpectedly, managing your credit card portfolio, and more
This week's "reader feedback" segment leads to a fun experiment for our sound engineer and statistical analyst before we move on to discuss that controversial Chase post and why we published it. Then it's...
On Nick’s mind (Dumping the Sapphire Reserve?)
Yesterday, Greg wrote about cancelling a credit card to which he had an oddly emotional attachment, the Citi Prestige card (See: Dumping my Citi Prestige card). His willpower is stronger than mine; with 5x...
