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New AMEX Offers for Best Buy

Travel BlerdNovember 9, 2018January 9, 2019

AMEX offer just rolled out a new Best Buy offer. You can either receive $30 cash back when you spend $300 or 3000 membership rewards points when you spend $300. I have the $30 offer one my accounts (I’m guessing it’s because I have the Schwab Platinum). This is a great offer with the holiday shopping season coming up.

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Whats in my Wallet? (August 2018)

Travel BlerdAugust 15, 2018

Every month I go through the credit cards that I’m currently carrying in my wallet. I’ll highlight the reason I’m carrying a particular card as well as any new card bonuses. Changes since last post : Applied for the Citi® / AAdvantage® Executive World Elite™ Mastercard®

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Beginners Guide: Using Shopping Portals

Travel BlerdAugust 12, 2018May 20, 2019

One the things that hurts me the most is when people buy things online and don’t use Shopping portals. Shopping Portals can be a very easy way to accumulate airline miles, hotel points and cash back by buying things that you would buy anyway. 

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I Spend over $2000 in Annual Credit Card Fees But It’s OK

Travel BlerdJuly 22, 2018May 20, 2019

This past week I was doing some reconciliation of my expenses from my recent business trips and noticed that the annual fees on my Citi Prestige and US Bank Altitude Reserve came due. This got me thinking, how much am I actually spending on annual credit card fees? I currently hold six cards with annuals fees between $75 and $550.

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Look, An Update

Travel BlerdJuly 17, 2018July 17, 2018

It’s been a few months since I’ve posted. In that time I managed to: Buy a condo Went to Bangkok Qualified for American Airlines Platinum Status for 2019 Qualified for Hyatt Discoverist Status The past couple of months have been busy but I will start posting more often.

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Deal: 3 Months of DirecTV Now for $70 plus Apple TV 4K (YMMV)

Travel BlerdFebruary 28, 2018February 28, 2018

I know I haven’t posted in a while, its been an extremely busy couple of weeks. One of the things that really annoyed me over the last couple of weeks is the limited selection of channels at the hotels I’ve been staying at (waiting 4 days to watch The Magicians has been hard). I’ve been thinking of subscribing to SlingTV

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My Platinum Welcome Kit Came Today

Travel BlerdJanuary 13, 2018January 13, 2018

While not as exciting as the Executive Platinum kit, I get a little excited when my Platinum welcome kit from American Airlines comes in the mail. The kit comes with a welcome letter, six employee recognition tickets and most importantly my Platinum membership card. The Platinum membership card is the jewel in the package. It may not look like it

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2018 New Years Resolutions

Travel BlerdJanuary 1, 2018

My resolutions for last year weren’t that ambitious. Basically they were: Fly on the a380 Fly on Qatar Airways or Etihad Fly Singapore Airlines After thinking about it for about for about a week I think I could do better in 2017.

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2017 Year In Review

Travel BlerdJanuary 1, 2018January 1, 2018

2017 was a pretty good year. I had the opportunity to go to Asia for the first time, I finally go the chance to fly Singapore Airlines and Qatar Airways, and I relocated to from Seattle to Chicago. Looking back at the past year, I managed to: Fly 55,783 airmiles Earned 51323 elite qualifying miles on American Airlines Earned 6132 elite

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This is the reason why I could actually buy essent This is the reason why I could actually buy essentials like milk, eggs and wings at #Aldi . More stores should implement this policy not just on toilet paper and water
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Heading home after a relaxing stay in Paris . . . Heading home after a relaxing stay in Paris
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Finally made it to the Eiffel Tower. Checked one t Finally made it to the Eiffel Tower. Checked one thing off my Paris Bucket list
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Did I ask for a Royals with cheese...Yes
Did I get a classic French eye roll from the Cashier...absolutely .
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Imagine if Chicago shutdown Michigan Ave like they Imagine if Chicago shutdown Michigan Ave like they shutdown the Les Champs Elysèe in Paris
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Some people pop bottles 🍾on their birthday, I r Some people pop bottles 🍾on their birthday, I refinanced my mortgage
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