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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
