This post is part of the TaxACT How I Save blog tour which teaches you ways to keep more money in your pocket. Last year, TaxACT saved America over $240 million on tax preparation. How much can you save? To learn more about tips and strategies on saving, click here. As you may have noticed from my previous […]

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I wrote about The Ritz-Carlton Rewards Visa a few months ago and the day that I posted my article was the same day that that deal died.  Yes I am that lucky.  But as One Mile At A Time reported the other day, that deal is now back on and if you apply right now, […]

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As someone who’s applied and been approved for over 30 cards over the past five years, I’ve seen some pretty great offers come and go.  In fact, I still remember the first offer that got me started on this miles, points and credit card journey that I’m now on. I was sitting at work casually […]

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Today I’m featuring a question I received via e-mail a few weeks ago.  Reader RB would love to go visit her boyfriend in North Carolina but she’s a starving student.  So how can she use miles and points to make it all the way from Cali to North Carolina for free?! I was hoping to […]

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My First Aegean Flight In order to get to Santorini, I booked us a flight on Aegean Airlines that routed through Athens using my United miles.  Aegean is a Star Alliance Partner of United so I was able to pay 25,000 miles plus $129 for about $400 worth of flights.  Looking back, I didn’t really […]

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2 Nights at the InterContinental De La Ville The Westin didn’t have four consecutive nights available using the Cash and Points option so I decided to spend the third and fourth nights at the Intercontinental de la Ville.  This was my first time staying at an IC property so I was eager to check it […]

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Arrival in Rome We were supposed to arrive at 7:35 am on Wednesday morning but due to the delays and re-routing we didn’t get in until 4:30 pm.  For our arrival, I set up a car service through RomeShuttleLimousine.com and when we stopped in London, I made sure to e-mail them with our new flight information. […]

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As most of you know, I’ve been gone for the past few weeks on my honeymoon.  I’d like to thank all of my friends who posted in my absence and while the honeymoon was awesome, I’m also glad to be back home and get back to work. This is the first article in a month […]

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This is part two of our two part series about my latest credit card App O Rama and how I netted 250,000 points and $200.  Part 1 covered preparation and strategy for an App O Rama of this kind of magnitude and today we’ll talk about how the application process and spending works. I ended up deciding […]

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This is part 1 of a two article series about my latest credit card App O Rama and how I netted 240,000 points and $200.  Part 2 on Friday will talk about which cards I applied for, how many points I ended up with (it’s a lot!) and how I met $20k in spending in […]

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(Update 12/5/14: Loyal3 no longer allows stocks to be purchased via credit cards.) I wrote an article a few months ago about a new company called Loyal3 and how you can use a credit card to purchase stocks for free.  Now I don’t really invest in many individual stocks due to the uncompensated risk, but […]

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I’ve worked in the aerospace industry for almost 5 years now since I graduated college. And whenever I tell people what line of work I’m in, they undoubtedly ask if I ever get to fly in the planes I work on for free. Sadly the answer is always no, actually there aren’t a whole lot […]

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