Introduction Another month, another wedding right? While my side of the family is pretty much all married, my wife’s side has lots of weddings coming up. This was my first destination wedding, and you can’t really do better as a destination than Hawaii. We were in Honolulu, and the lodging was a VRBO vacation rental, […]
Introduction Hey, not every trip can be an international first class flight. Sometimes, you just have to slum it around in domestic coach. Anyway, I had a friend’s wedding in New Orleans and I’ll share with you how I used miles and points to get me there. I’ll review the hotels in separate posts […]
Well, my Wells Fargo 5% card expired in the 1st week of March. Of course that didn’t stop me from hitting it hard that final week. What’s my new go-to manufactured spend method? Buying AGC’s using a high cashback card. I found one that gives me 3% on spend (not the Discover Miles card) + […]
It had been a while since I have applied for a credit card (over 60 days since my AMEX Business Platinum card). Today, I went ahead and applied for 6 cards. Here’s what I applied for (in order): (also, I have no referral links so you can Google the cards) AMEX Simply Cash (approved after […]
I had gotten this card in December of 2013 and was just charged the $75 annual fee on the card. The good news is that they actually had credited me the Alaska $99 companion pass already in my account, and I used it already, so sorry, no take backs. The phone call took about 5 […]