Preparing for Mother’s Day Miles
My wife recently Tweeted the following question: Points and Mile blogger wife’s dilemma: Do I get flowers because he loves me or because he gets points buying them? My answer? “It’s love, of...
Pondering Reasonable Redemption Values
Figuring out the value of airline miles or hotel points is difficult. In fact, I’ve argued in the past that it is impossible (see “Impossible point valuations and the joy of free”). And, so,...
The new true value of Southwest points
Recently, Southwest devalued their rewards program a bit by increasing the number of points required for “Wanna Get Away” fares. They used to charge 60 points per dollar for these fares, but now they...
How bad is Delta’s domestic award availability?
“Delta award availability sucks”. If you spend much time in the frequent flyer community, you’re bound to hear that, or something very similar. For newcomers, this can be confusing. After all, if you plug...
Staples Gift Cards
This post is intended to be a resource for those looking to buy gift cards at Staples or Staples.com. The table below shows each gift card currently offered by Staples, by type. For each...
Airline devaluations, convoluted awards, #milemadness, Serve on-again, and Staples gift cards
AA and US Airways begin their merger devaluations
The following bullet points are borrowed from One Mile at a Time:
American has eliminated distance based oneworld Explorer awards
American has eliminated stopovers at the gateway city on...
Create an Amex Sync Machine
Lately I’ve been raving about great opportunities to save money through Amex Sync Offers. For example, please see these recent posts: Buy gift cards at Staples for 20% off: Amex Sync Offer: $20...
Bluebird vs. Serve once again
Note: On January 8, 2016 American Express sent out a notice to a large number of Bluebird & Serve cardholders informing them that loading capabilities on their accounts had been terminated. For more information,...
Ultimate guide to paying taxes by credit card, debit card, or gift card.
UPDATE: This post is out of date. .
If you have large estimated or year-end tax payments you’ve probably wondered if you could profit by paying your taxes with a rewards-earning credit or debit card. ...
The ultimate guide to paying taxes by credit card, debit card, or gift card....
UPDATE: This post is out of date. .
If you have large estimated or year-end tax payments you’ve probably wondered if you could profit by paying your taxes with a rewards-earning credit or debit card. ...
Reloadit cash-only memo
CVS isn’t the only major chain with reload card cash-only memos flying around. Safeway got in the game too, with respect to Reloadit cards. See the photo, below, that was sent to me by...
Gift cards at Lowes
For a limited time, it's possible to get 20% off all gift cards sold at Lowe's. In this post I tell you how, plus I list all of the gift cards found at my local Lowe's store. These include Disney, Amazon.com, BP, Shell, Southwest Airlines, and much more.
Surviving the last day CVS scramble
This is it. Today is the day… Today (April 3rd) is the last day to buy reload cards at CVS (with a credit card) Incase you’ve been hiding in a cave, I should...
20% off Lowe’s, Zappos, Crate & Barrel, and more
American Express has unveiled a number of terrific new “Offers for You,” also known as “Sync Offers”. Not all offers are available to every person or to every Amex card they have. To see...
