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Good development for this hobby: Marriott International Signs New Co-Brand Credit Card Agreements with JPMorgan Chase and American Express.
Very interesting, I have never been to Finland yet. We don’t get much action on it from the usual travel blogs. 18 reasons why Finland is the greatest country on earth. I had no idea the country has 179,584 lakes wow!
This is amazing, the Art of Flying. A brief, magnificent video of starlings flying in “murmurations,” dense, undulating—well, murmuring—swarms.
Okay, this next one is fun. Not as fun as sex robots but…close hehe. 22 Kinky And Crazy Sex Facts To Mention At Your Next Bacchanalia. WTF is Bacchanalia anyway? This one below stood out, things you learn at TBB woohoo!
Cleopatra was an early innovator of the vibrator and was said to pleasure herself with the vibrations created from a box of angry bees.
Another good personal finance read by this blogger: The Curse of the Young Millionaire. I agree!
One of the biggest problems with becoming wealthy, especially when it happens really fast, is that people become overconfident and assume wealth equals better decision-making ability. If anything, more money often causes people to make worse decisions. Success early on in life can also give you a false sense of intelligence or skill.
My advice to any newly minted young (or old) millionaire would be the following:
- Don’t let your wealth define you or own you because it won’t help your well-being as much as you think.
- Don’t allow wealth to own you.
- Count your blessings and show gratitude on a regular basis — this will make you happier than the money.
- There will always be people richer than you. Accept this as a fact of life and don’t dwell on the circumstance of others.
- One of the hardest things to do in life is to be satisfied with what you have.
These are huuuuuuuge. The Mega Hotels of Mecca. There is some CRAZY construction plans underway. The one below being built now will blow your mind:
A mammoth new hotel is rising in Saudi Arabia’s holy city Mecca. When completed it will have 10,000 rooms spanning more than 1.4 million square meters, and 70 restaurants catering to the most affluent of pilgrims from the Gulf and abroad.
Resembling a traditional fortress, the hotel Abraj Kudai consist of a ring of 12 towers soaring 45 stories into the sky. Atop its central tower will be one of the world’s largest domes. Surrounding this dome will be five helipads. The world’s biggest hotel will also feature a bus station, food courts, and a shopping mall on the lower levels and a ballroom housed inside the dome. The interiors, as expected, will be lavishly decorated.
This is pretty cool, the Latte Index. I am surprised Oslo is not on the list!
The largest wine cellar in the world is so large you can drive cars (slowly) through it. It holds millions of bottles of wine. Wheere is it? It is in Moldova where no Hyatt is nearby therefore no travel credit card salesmen expert bloggers go, sad!
Well, lets have another index since we posted about the latte one already. How about the price of haircuts around the world? And here comes Oslo, WTF!
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I am embarrassed to admit I burned 50k Skymiles for son’s one way award Detroit to Madrid in early January. I could not do any better, not much flexibility in dates and it was his birthday present. With his mom’s miles lol. Miles/points burned year to date now stand at 806,500. With a short trip to Greece coming up later this month for me…I better hurry up so I can hit a million again!
We all know there is a bubble in crypto currencies. We also have another bubble in premium travel rewards credit cards! Looks like another coming from Chase with Marriott, zzzzzzz.
Amazing how earth shattering the news that are blogged in this space lately! And of course the CSP follow up…which is followed by another travel thought leading story. Amazing!
The VFTW Mini Me dude of course has to keep up with such ground breaking type of stories…
It’s Raining Poop! New Delhi Residents Blame Airlines for Toxic Downpour – Live and Let’s Fly
I need to stop looking at this poop!
Upgradedpoints.com, which came into being to sell some credit cards, has now gotten to the point of doing “reviews” of some really bad credit cards. And of course MilesCards quality content has slowed way down ever after they sold out too.
This space is just dying…
Mighty Travels is looking to hire a Head of Digital Marketing. Amazing this site and Milevalue are still around….
Things are not the same you guys over at Amex…
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Good morning.
One benefit of Delta’s flexible award prices is you can find tickets. Of course Detroit as a Delta hub might help too.
The Marriott news is terrific.
Very true on the DL flexible award pricing and Detroit being a hub!
Amazingly, The Points Guy is still screaming readers need to get the SPG cards NOW lol.
It is good news! I guess it will help to offset what I imagine will be the gutting of SPG’s current generous and wide-ranging airline transfer partner scheme once they go down to one program. Though I’d love to be wrong on that!
Who did Milecards sell out to?
Man I pay $10 for a haircut (plus tip) – and it only went up from $9 a year ago!
“VFTW Mini Me” LOL! Perfect!
I had a link to the sale back in late summer I believe. The owners ran some type of personal finance collection of blogs. Part of MagnifyMoney.com I think but don’t quote me on that. Milescards was one of the sites. You can tell they are just mailing it in now…
I thought I was paying too little at just $14 per cut. Same lady cuts my hair since college!
Much cheaper to be bald – almost completely there myself!
I didn’t know Milescards sold!
For the latest shit I click Points, Miles and Martinis…. #notreally
Delta Flight Makes Emergency Landing Due to Full Toilets Onboard
and when the Travel Thought Leader copies PM&M #wow
Delta Flight Diverts So Passengers Could Use Bathroom After Blue Water Runs Down Aisle – View From The Wing
Mighty Travels needs a Head of Website Design 🙂
Would you work for someone who gives you a job title where you will be ‘head’ of no-one?!
the Bitcoin network is consuming power at an annual rate of 32TWh—about as much as Denmark.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/bitcoins-insane-energy-consumption-explained/
More info on the birds https://www.futilitycloset.com/2015/02/07/all-for-one/
Two great links above, thank you.
To continue the charade with the Blogs To Ignore…
Hours later, The Points Guy posts:
Delta Flight Makes Emergency Bathroom Break
WTF hey?
And Rene comes back to post on a weekday because he could not stay away from the opportunity to sell another Amex Delta card.
Of course, the Boarding Area poster boys after the ground breaking shit posts earlier in the day get back to what they do best:
9 Good Credit Cards With Little Or No Minimum Spend – One Mile at a Time
What Airline Credit Cards Are For: You Get — But Do Not Use — Airline Cards View From The Wing
Numbers of cards sold at TBB in December: ZERO
Would I get more conversions if I started posting about shit and pumped you every freaking day while kissing the asses of these bloggers: Absolutely.
But then it would not be TBB 🙂
To TBB and beyond!