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Every deal we do in life, be it business or hobby has a potential for either a positive or negative rate of return.    Todays Deal This morning I’ve driven 20 minutes from my  home to the neighboring town’s Staples…

Last week I managed over $47,000 worth of gift card churning at GiftCardMall, Simon Mall, Staples, and Safeway. In total, I earned 41,499 points and miles. I also earned a $35.88 cash profit after offsetting all gift card fees. At…

I had a long week. I’ve been feeling pretty burned out lately working full time and trying to keep up with blogging, my editing side gig, manufactured spending, travel planning, and just breathing. It’s been tough but I have a…

Since the GiftCardMall hack a few weeks ago, I’ve steered clear of ordering gift cards from the site. A few readers have reported that they’ve ordered gift cards from GiftCardMall over the last week or two and have not had…

By now, you’ve all heard about the massive credit card fraud that is (allegedly) tied to GiftCardMall purchases. Pretty much all of the credit cards I used at GiftCardMall got hacked…to the tune of $2936.36. Yes, someone had a fun…

Last week was probably the best week I’ve had in years. Both in terms of manufactured spending and professionally. I made the decision to quit a freelance gig I’ve had for seven years. It was just creating a lot of…

So much for writing a weekly manufactured spending report! At some point last month, I got overwhelmed with non-blogging stuff and decided to skip my weekly posts altogether. Keeping in mind that I had a reputation to uphold, I did…

I had set a pretty feasible manufactured spending goal for March, yet I ended up falling significantly short. It didn’t help that my website was down for a full week. I got very little gift card churning done and fell behind.…

I realize this post is way late, but as you may have been aware, the site was down most of the week. You can thank GoDaddy for that. Their motto? “When your website goes down, so does our call center.”…

This is going to be a short one. After a pretty great start two weeks ago, my manufactured spending progress took a nosedive. Last week was insanely busy and I just didn’t get around to placing many gift card orders. I…