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Credit cards are great. Until the annual fee sets in and you have to decide whether to keep or cancel the card. Some cards are better at earning their keep than others. If you have an American Express card, chances…
The Starwood Preferred Guest program is popular for a reason: In addition to having over 1,100 hotels worldwide in excellent locations, the program has a reasonable award chart. The program’s Category 1 hotel list certainly proves that, offering incredible value…
You know that feeling: You’ve been in the travel hacking game for a while, churned a few cards, did some manufactured spending, and now you’re just staring at your Award Wallet account with excitement and anxiety. It took you a…
Hotel suites aren’t just for those willing to fork over the cash. Smart travelers are able to leverage a few strategies to score suite upgrades without paying out of pocket. Regardless of which method you choose, getting a suite doesn’t…
Update 9/21/14: It appears OneVanilla cards can again be used to purchase money orders and load Bluebird at Walmart. Recently, word got out that Walmart no longer accepted Vanilla Visa gift cards for Bluebird reloads or money order purchases. Several…
A reader reached out to me recently with the following question, that I thought was worth answering on the blog: How long did it take before you ramped up to $40K in MS/month? Perhaps you could share some of the…
Cash back portals have been pretty generous for the past month, though the highest payouts is now down to 3%. Usually, there isn’t much difference between what the major portals are offering in terms of points/miles or cash back. When…
Update: It appears Barclay Rewardsboost has removed American Express gift cards from the portal. Hopefully this is temporary, but until it comes back, Option #1 below is out for now. Since I began churning American Express gift cards, I’ve focused…
I’ve been manufacturing spend for about two years now and doing it in a fairly cautious, responsible way. Back when Vanilla Reloads were sold at Office Depot and people were getting their Ink accounts shut down for abusing the 5x point…
This weekend I spent more time than I had intended to, hopping from one Walmart to another. My objective was to unload that batch of $4,000+ Visa gift cards I purchased from Staples.com, so I ended up visiting Walmart three…
