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I started the week with a trip to a college town where I always get a lot of churning done. It is, after all, The Pudding Guy’s territory (you know you’ve made it in to the ms hall of fame…
It’s been a very effortless week of manufactured spending. A new CVS opened up in a convenient location last week and I’ve been going over there for my Visa gift card fix ever since. A new sushi buffet also opened…
I took a trip to Germany four years ago and wrote up this report shortly after launching this blog. Unfortunately, I lost the post until recently. I wasn’t going to publish it when I found it recently, but felt it…
Update: As of September 2014 most shopping portals have either pulled or reduced the Amex gift card denominations eligible for cash back. As a result, the information in this post is no longer relevant. American Express Gift cards, convert them to PIN-enabled…
I don’t know if it’s the weather (depressingly cloudy, yet unbearably hot), but I’ve been in no mood to manufacture spend lately. Don’t get me wrong, I still do it – but the way the average kid does math homework.…
In a recent post, I mentioned using Vanilla Visa gift cards to purchase money orders at Walmart. Some readers have been asking me how that’s possible, after Walmart banned the use of gift cards for money order purchases a while…
Right before Top Cash Back and BeFrugal began limiting cash back to American Express gift cards purchased in denominations of $200 or less, I placed a few orders totaling $30,000. In addition to this, I had another $10,000 lying around…
I’ve wanted to take my family to Asia for a while, but the timing didn’t work out until this summer. It wasn’t easy, but I managed to book the entire trip for five people, in mostly business and first class.…
Maybe the title of this post should be “No Volume Gift Card Churning”. Ever since I came back from Asia, I’ve been off my game. First, there was the fact that I had to re-read old posts to remind myself…
If you think going back to work after vacation is hard, try picking up your manufactured spending routine where you left off. There are several obstacles that make the task more difficult: First, you’ve got jet lag to deal with.…
