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    Don’t Forget to Activate Your Chase Freedom and Discover Bonus Categories

    Don’t Forget to Activate Your Chase Freedom and Discover Bonus Categories

    Travel BlerdJune 22, 2019June 22, 2019

    The bonus categories for the Chase Freedom and Discover It cards have been announced. The bonus categories for the Chase Freedom are Gas and Streaming services. The set of streaming services includes Netflix, Spotify and Hulu. The Discover categories are Restaurants and PayPal. The categories for both of these card are not very useful for me. All the streaming services

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    $25 Statement Credit with Citi and Amazon

    $25 Statement Credit with Citi and Amazon

    Travel BlerdMay 22, 2019May 22, 2019

    This morning I received an email from Citi for $25 cash back when I spend $75 at Amazon. I currently have 2 cards with Citi but this deal was only for my Citi Prestige card. According to Doctor of Credit this deal seems to be targeted and not widely available. The offer seems to be different depending on the card

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    Why I’m on the Fence about Dropping my Citi Prestige

    Travel BlerdJanuary 21, 2019May 20, 2019

    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 travel credit, beginning in September the 4th night free will

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    My Rewards Strategy for 2019

    Travel BlerdJanuary 16, 2019June 1, 2019

    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 the American Express Platinum 5x on airfare. I also had

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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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    Heading home after a relaxing stay in Paris . . . Heading home after a relaxing stay in Paris
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