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Kind of a slow day…
More solid info again: AMEX Membership Rewards questions answered.
And you can get a 25% bonus when you transfer Membership Rewards points to Hawaiian Airlines until June 21st. I am just dropping this here so you don’t think I missed it. I can think of several other transfer partners than this one!
We get to see the 2018 peak and off-peak British Airways (and Iberia) Avios redemption calendars.
Sometimes, personal finance advice is just really simple (doing it is a whole different matter). Essential Rules to Share with Your Friends: The Financial Simpletons.
- Save first. Put aside a portion of each paycheck you receive. Force yourself to stretch. Then do a budget after you’ve stashed your savings.
- Learn to budget. Stay away from credit card debt. That’s not budgeting.
- Take a class. Read a book. Make an effort to learn about finances.
- Purge bad habits. Perhaps you shouldn’t buy new shoes every week!
- Create a plan. Put it in writing and get a professional to review your plan.
- Taxes matter. Understand the difference between a taxable account, a tax-deferred account and a tax-exempt account.
- Make it a hobby. Embrace your financial assets. Play with your portfolio. Have fun.
- Discipline. Automate your investing through all seasons and all types of markets. Compounding is indeed the eighth wonder of the world — use it to your benefit.
- Don’t procrastinate. Start now. There are always hundreds of excuses not to do so — ignore them all!
- Invest for your kids’ sake. Make sure you have enough for a long retirement so that you aren’t a financial burden to them. Better yet, teach them to be financially responsible so you can spend their inheritance.
Really nice fountains you guys! 10+ Of The World’s Most Amazing Fountains. Obligatory lame blogger question to generate traffic—->page views—->advertising dollars. Not here so no question for you! I make nada from page views, thank you!
I have never seen this and I am surprised. Not a Hyatt by any stretch of imagination but the setting in these beautiful surroundings of cliffs that are four times greater than the ones found in Grand Canyon! This isolated hotel is in the northwestern region of Chihuahua in Mexico: Hotel Posada Mirador, The Grand Sugar Pink Clifftop Hotel. If you go, don’t count on that spa treatment lol.
I have been featuring lately some maps that sometimes I wonder if there is someone just making them up. Like this one here of the countries every state is dreaming of visiting this year. Holy cow. look at the Maldives! And Indonesia? Get out! And, the most bizarre one of them all? Minnesota residents think of, please sit down, United Arab Emirates. WTF!!!!!
Are you tired of maps yet? Because I am not done! Most popular surnames by state.
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Amex car rental coverage is getting better by ending restrictions in Ireland, Israel and Jamaica. Finally!
Use miles to get to Zimbabwe. Why? This travel conference TBEX will be there in 2018 #wow!
Speaking of car rental coverage, Autoslash has now slashed my car rental reservation three times for a total savings to date of about $50. I want it to go lower…channeling my inner William Shatner!
Darn Hyatt website. I guess they had the dough to go from Gold Passport to World of Hyatt and all the work that entails…but the website still sucks! Almost reserved a Cat 5 with my free Visa anniversary night. Stop showing it available to me Hyatt IT folks and wasting my time, thanks!
Nobody is going to silence me here, I got mega pro bono help behind TBB! Following @Straight_TPG yet?
It never ends…Credit card salesmen “blogging” about travel pushing product out the door to unsuspecting readers…And a travel thought leader who has become the tabloid of miles (“flight attendants accused of behaving VERY badly” WTF!).
And I leave you with this…
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Indeed.
“Cavs in 7” – J.R. Smith tweet minutes after collapse (claimed he was hacked lol)
Renespoints is on a roll.
Today, it is a rant on TSA destroying their $30 bag.
A week or two ago, it was “a Renespoints hotel review by Lisa” – that too of the Doubletree at the Miami airport – where she stayed for a weekend getaway.
Scintillating stuff. Aspirational travel, here I come!
This is content that changes lives…
Hold my beer…
What a tool. How can he actually have any readers? Seriously.
Enjoy your coffee. It’s on Chase today.
I let my daughter have both of them. Super Venti etc of course #maximizeit
Asked the barista for a gellatio as you suggested George. She wasn’t amused.
Lol…
My favorite one is pregnant actually…so I stopped 🙂
Stopped getting her pregnant? Im afraid that genie is already out of the bottle dude.
Oh sh
Blue biz card auto approved using your link this morning.
Thank you, much appreciated!
Ingy: Seth has a high credit score. Like pretty much everyone here 🙂
1. Emily must be 7+ feet tall. I never realized.
2. That South Korea fountain is beautiful. The list is weird though, because a couple hundred feet from the diver fountain is the $100 million Dubai mall fountain, so how did that not make the list.
3. My last year in Dallas I lived a block from the Mustangs. My Kenyan roommate told me they were designed by a Kenyan. He also was the ex son in law of Kenya’s prime minister. #supposedly
Emily holding hands in installment Part 69a with new man. Waiting for Ramsey to pop in any moment to let us know what will happen next between these two. I wish I had Gary give me a click baity shocking headline for it lol.
All these lists I post are…weird 🙂
Mustangs with Kenyan connection…hmmm.
Meanwhile… #ComeyDay
To be a must-follow, Straight_TPG should actually be funny. He is not.
Daraius?
Lol
I have 2663 M&M points expiring end of the month. No status, no CC. Lowest redemption appears to be 3000 point donation to a charitable organization.
Can anything be done /w Lufthansa?
No idea. Anyone?
I have Copa Airlines miles expiring times 4 (familia). Easiest way to extend?
Aer Lingus Avios Peak, off-Peak through 2018 now listed as well..
@Head for Points.
http://www.headforpoints.com
Yep saw that too…Too lazy to update post 🙂
Jesus, NY got Jamicia????? I want a recount. 😉
I did not think much of Jamicia
Not that surprised as Minnesota dreaming of UAE!
You heard it here first…So tired of feeding bloggers content, u deserve the fame TBB, the only BS Filter in the internet!
Remember the asshats at Big Crumbs? Favorite afiliate whore link lovers of so many bloggers who stiffed so many? Had the balls to try to do it again with another outfit in same old MLM shit? Guess what? Ooops, they did it again…WTF are the legal authorities doing?
DeepThroat 😉
Deep Throat… with a name like that I hope your a broad
+1
Have you never heard of Watergate?
http://www.factinate.com/facts/55-bizarre-facts-dictators-3/?utm_content=inf_10_3709_2&fact=1&utm_source=TSE&utm_campaign=tse&utm_medium=CPC&tse_id=INF_58cd76a04c7e11e780b645b806a7020f
Seems right up your alley
Thank you Brenton…H? 😉
These are really great…That Hitler dude sure let it rip a lot…oh crap, did I catch myself in a Sean Spicer moment just now…#Iamscrewed