I just want everyone to be aware of some facts if they book a hotel with a travel advisor or through a credit card travel portal like Chase Ultimate Rewards, Capital One, Citi Travel or Amex (booking a hotel that is not an Amex Fine Hotel). First, you will not earn points on the stay. […]
Category: Mom’s Tips
Rob And I Are Saying Farewell To Our Amex Green Cards
Back in June of 2019, when the retro American Express Green Card got a revamp, Rob and I both got the card with a nice bonus of 45,000 Membership Rewards points. We even used the card often for travel despite the fact that I also had a Chase Sapphire Reserve, which like the Amex […]
I Downgraded My Chase Sapphire Reserve To The Preferred, Here’s Why
Like many of you, I got the highly touted Chase Sapphire Reserve card back in 2016 with a bonus of 100,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards points. At the time, 100,000 bonus points were rare. I used my Sapphire Reserve card and loved my card for the next 5 years, but with so much more hitting the […]
Win-Win-Donating My Kids’ Miles And Extending Their Miles Expiration Dates!
If you followed #8 on my Lets Get Started page, hopefully, you have opened frequent flyer accounts for your children. However, a few airlines, like American Airlines, have account mileage expiration dates due to lack of activity in an account. With American, kids can’t drum up activity by using American Airlines Citi cards and Barclays […]
I Canceled My Chase Marriott Rewards Premier Business Credit Card
Back in 2019, I got the Chase Marriott Rewards Premier Business Card with a 75,000 bonus. I paid the $99 annual fee after the first year as I always found a way to use the free Bonvoy night award that I got with the card. The free Bonvoy night was always handy for college visits. However, […]
I Messed Up With My World Of Hyatt Offer And Missed Out On 2,500 Points
Last month I took advantage of an offer to use my World of Hyatt Credit Card to make a certain number of purchases of $1 or more from February 1, 2021 to February 28, 2021. The terms of the offer were to receive 1,000 Bonus Points if you make 10 purchases, 1,500 additional Bonus Points […]
625,000 Bonus Potential For Rob And I In Just A Few Short Months!
Since the end of 2020, Rob and I have been applying for a lot of cards! And we have scored more than 1/2 million rewards from many of these unprecedented offers due to covid. 200,000 JetBlue TrueBlue Points First, we both took advantage of the 100,000 JetBlue bonus offer with the JetBlue Plus Mastercard. We […]
Cards That Help You Reach Airline Elite Status Via Spending
The following cards all allow you to help make your way to elite status through spending. In addition, due to covid, many of these airlines have made it even easier to reach status. The following details how you can get closer to status via credit card spend in a normal (non covid) year. American Airlines […]
How I Saved My Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan Miles From Expiring
This morning I got an email that my small balance (about 12k) of Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan Miles was due to expire at the end of the year. Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan miles do not have an expiration date and may remain in an active account indefinitely. HOWEVER, if a Mileage Plan account is inactive […]
Ugh-I Messed Up And Applied For A Citi ThankYou Card Too Soon And Now Won’t Get The Bonus!
And I still continue to make mistakes at times! I recently wrote about how I was excited about adding a Citi Rewards+ card to my Citi ThankYou card portfolio. I recently went for the card after being reminded about the 10% Points Back rebate feature for the first 100,000 ThankYou Points you redeem per year. The bonus […]