Recently, Mastercard added benefits to their World and World Elite cards. One of the benefits was 5% cash back at Boxed. I’m a big fan of Boxed, its my main source of LaCroix. I wanted to see how the benefit would work considering you don’t have to register for the
A couple of months ago, I was leaning towards either closing my Citi Prestige or converting the card to the Citi Premier. This was due to the changes to the benefits of the card and the increased annual fee. Instead of getting rid of my Citi Prestige, I ended up
I’ve been struggling with which cards I’m going to keep and which cards I’m going to cancel this year. I was really leaning towards cancelling my Citi Prestige, but my experience on my trip to Zanzibar really changed my mind. I did decide to cancel my Altitude Reserve yesterday. The
Recently, I’ve been looking at which credit card I want to apply for next. I was thinking about applying for the World of Hyatt Credit Card or the new Marriott Bonvoy Boundless Visa Card. Since I don’t travel on a weekly basis, hotel status isn’t as important anymore. Even if
Recently, Citi has updated the Prestige. As I’ve mentioned before in my post about how I offset my annual credit card fees, the Citi Prestige 4th night free benefit was a major part of that strategy. With the new changes, the $250 air travel credit is now a $250 general
I took an inventory of all the rewards currencies that I currently collect and decided I’m going to have to change my rewards strategy for this year. At the end of 2018 I had a large collection of Membership Rewards points, from the American Express Gold sign up bonus and
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
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
Wow its been a while since I posted. I’ve been back from trip to Europe and Asia for a couple of weeks now, and I’m just catching up on thing and also starting a new job. For my new position I’ll be traveling a lot more, which I love. I
For years I’ve resisted applying for the American Express Platinum. The American Express Everyday Preferred took care of my membership rewards needs and I have the Citi Prestige and the Chase Sapphire Reserve already and didn’t feel the need to get another premium card. That changed recently and here’s why.
