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I stayed at the Hyatt Centric The Loop Chicago while attending the annual Chicago Seminars. This points and miles conference takes place every year at the Holiday Inn Elk Grove Village. This time, I wanted to spend a few days…
A few weeks ago, the Yazing shopping portal appeared on my radar when they began offering 2% cash back at giftcards.com. I placed several gift card orders and subsequently received tracking notices from Yazing. Shortly after this, a few readers…
After yesterday’s post about my productive week of manufactured spending, I received many questions from people about how I spend my points and miles and whether I even need to earn that many to begin with. To be clear, I…
It’s getting tough to keep these weekly manufactured spending posts somewhat entertaining Unless something interesting happens, it’s pretty much business as usual. I buy a bunch of cards, unload them, then do it all over again. This week it was…
Some airline passengers are terrible. Everyday, we have people like Heather Poole and the guys at Passenger Shaming to remind us of that fact. I don’t think I’ve ever had an especially terrible experience with a seatmate or fellow passenger.…
Update: iConsumer has lowered their Giftcards.com payout to 0.8% cash back. There’s nothing like a trip to Canada to make you appreciate what you have back home. I don’t care that they have universal healthcare. I’ll take great manufactured spending opportunities…
Update: At 4:30 PM today, Yazing confirmed they are in fact still paying out 2% cash back at GiftCards.com, despite their listing showing only 1.5%. Update: It seems Yazing dropped the payout prematurely. As of 3:50 PM, they’re only offering…
Update: As of Sunday, February 22, the issue has been resolved. I’ve been MIA (aka in Canada) lately and just got back on Tuesday. Yesterday, I headed out to unload a few gift cards and ran into some issues. I…
If you didn’t visit the blog last week, don’t worry you didn’t miss much (other than a Watts Riot-type situation). Thank you to all the readers who emailed, DM’d, and left comments on various posts. Your support and positivity are appreciated. Some…
My week started on Tuesday, when I picked up a $500 Visa gift card at a local Safeway store after hearing rumors of Safeway pulling Visa gift cards off the shelves. The transaction went smoothly and I thought that was…
