How to Check Your Real Credit Score for Free
There have been a couple of exciting recent announcements about obtaining your credit score for free. In light of my recent obsession with travel hacking, I thought that readers like you would...
View ArticleTrack Your Rewards Before Applying for Travel Credit Cards
When first beginning the travel hacking game, the amount of information can be overwhelming. There are many moving parts and you need to create a spreadsheet to begin tracking all the information....
View ArticleImprove Your Credit Score by Applying for Credit Cards
The point of this post is to provide the clear cut and straightforward facts about credit card applications and your credit score. In doing so, I hope to encourage more readers to begin taking...
View ArticleAmerican Express Serve Review: Prepaid Card for Travel Rewards
I’ve written before about meeting minimum spend requirements for travel hacking. Today I’ll talk about a one option with American Express Serve. Serve is a prepaid card that acts like a debit card. You...
View ArticleManufactured Spending Techniques with Gift Cards
Hopefully by now, you’ve read a few of my previous articles and have gotten started in the process of travel hacking. If you haven’t, you can start here: Travel Hacking Guide I’ve already discussed the...
View ArticleThe Undeniable Joys of Free Travel
I’m sitting here at gate B-35, waiting to board yet another delayed flight. In fact, it’s been 10 straight hours of delayed flights. Weather caused the malfunction, and the airport just never...
View ArticleSleep Like a Baby in Free Luxury Hotels
Our recent tour of Texas was a smashing frugal success. We enjoyed seeing all of the major cities and sampling the finest foods at half price (thanks, Groupon). In addition to the discounted foods, the...
View Article7 Nights at a Marriott AND The Southwest Companion Pass?!
I recently wrote about a few Marriott properties that we visited on our last vacation. They were category 1 and 2 properties that cost just 10,000 Marriott points or less each night. I still feel those...
View ArticleVacationing in Aruba: Mixed Impressions
Vanessa and I have been traveling quite a bit, which is always fun but also tiresome. We just got back from a trip that involved Washington DC and Aruba. Aruba wasn’t quite as expected, so I wanted to...
View ArticleFree Cash and Free Travel: Will you Play the Travel Hacking Game?
Almost every time I post a travel related article on this site (like our Aruba report), we have readers who want to learn how they can take great vacations for next to nothing. I’ve written a short...
View ArticleA Brief Introduction to Travel Rewards
Since we paid off our debt and have built an emergency fund, I’ve been wondering what comes next. Is it just stashing as much cash as possible into investment accounts? Or should we be thinking about...
View ArticleAmazon Payments Review: Credit Card Bonuses Galore
Update: As of October 13, 2014, Amazon Payments can no longer be used to send money to another individual, rendering this article dead. (You can still “spend” $1,000 per month free with American...
View ArticleAwardWallet Review
Before reading my AwardWallet review, make sure to read my previous post on creating rewards accounts. Those accounts are necessary to use AwardWallet. AwardWallet is a nifty service that allows you to...
View ArticleAwardWallet – The Best Free Program to Track Travel Rewards
AwardWallet is a fantastic free service that allows you to manage all your travel points/miles in one place. It’s a real time saver when you are managing dozens of loyalty accounts with varying...
View ArticleSleep Like a Baby in Free Luxury Hotels
Our recent tour of Texas was a smashing success. We enjoyed seeing all of the major cities and sampling the finest foods at half price (thanks, Groupon). In addition to the discounted foods, the short...
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