Why I no longer like the Marriott credit card
A number of hotel loyalty programs have recently suffered major devaluations. Here is a summary borrowed from One Mile at a Time:
Hilton has literally destroyed their award chart for high end redemptions by adding...
Million Mile Madness, Credit card planning: US Bank and others
Background: Early in January, I introduced the idea of challenging myself (and anyone foolish enough to join me) to earn a million points in one month. So, starting March 1, I’ll do everything I...
Million Mile Madness, Credit card planning: Barclaycard
Background: Early in January, I introduced the idea of challenging myself (and anyone foolish enough to join me) to earn a million points in one month. So, starting March 1, I’ll do everything I...
Million Mile Madness, Credit card planning: Citi
Background: Early in January, I introduced the idea of challenging myself (and anyone foolish enough to join me) to earn a million points in one month. So, starting March 1, I’ll do everything I...
Office DeMax
Office supply stores and travel hacking are a strange combination, but in the past year or two they've been great together. Thanks to credit card bonus categories, Easy Rebates, big portal promotions, Vanilla Reload...
The Home Improvement gift card
Is this the next big thing? Probably not, but it has its uses… When Office Depot recently stopped selling $500 Visa cards, the hunt was on to find the next big "5X...
Targeted Amex upgrades
UPDATE: The process for finding upgrade offers has changed. Please see the updated instructions here.
Note: American Express is a Frequent Miler advertiser
Instead of applying for a new credit card, it is sometimes possible to...
Million Mile Madness, Credit card planning: American Express
Background: Early in January, I introduced the idea of challenging myself (and anyone foolish enough to join me) to earn a million points in one month. So, starting March 1, I’ll do everything I...
Extreme savings at Kohl’s
For my wife's last round of credit card sign-ups, I picked up a Kohl's charge card in her name (see "My wife’s 305K churn"). The reason for getting the card was simply to get...
Million Mile Madness, Credit card planning: Chase
Background: Early in January, I introduced the idea of challenging myself (and anyone foolish enough to join me) to earn a million points in one month. So, starting March 1, I’ll do everything I...
Amex Gift Cards, this and that
I've reported before that it is possible to get 1.5% cash back via TopCashBack or 1.4% cash back via BigCrumbs when buying Amex gift cards online. Here are some miscellaneous updates on that topic…...
Million Mile Madness: Tracking points and expenses
Background: Early in January, I introduced the idea of challenging myself (and anyone foolish enough to join me) to earn a million points in one month. So, starting March 1, I’ll do everything I...
Milepoint Kiva Lending Team 2nd Anniversary
Kiva is a nonprofit organization that facilitates micro-loans to enterprising individuals around the world so that they may earn their own way out of poverty. By making loans through the Kiva website, you can...
