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The hobby starts at Mile Nerd: The Top 25 Credit Cards. What will we do when he stops blogging at the end of the year?
This hobby is getting harder. Here are 4 hotel loyalty member changes made budget travel more expensive in 2017-18. Loyalty Traveler asks something I have been pondering lately: Is is time for lodging independence?
It appears that no signup bonus for the Hilton Ascend card can be had if you had the Surpass card in the past, sad! Here are more details: Hilton Conversion Questions Answered: New Ascend bonus? 5/24 effect?
All the 5% quarterly bonus credit card categories for Chase Freedom, Discover, US Bank Cash + and Citi Dividend with links to activate them. Looks like we are about to earn 5% easy on groceries this quarter!
Some good ones in this AFAR list: 8 European Hotels With Truly Iconic Views.
A trip report to the Icehotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden. I finally made it to one. Actually an Ice bar in Orlando and it was…cold!
The Most Elusive Man in America. Wow. It has a long intro, you can fast forward to 8.15 min. “Life is a gift”.
Just as you probably imagined…Having Your Smartphone Nearby Takes a Toll on Your Thinking.
The KMart dude, what a story. And what a character #barf. “They Could Have Made a Different Decision”: Inside the Strange Odyssey of Hedge-Fund King Eddie Lampert.
One of the sweetest inspiring stories last week. It is never too late you guys. Scott Foster, a 36-Year-Old Accountant, Filled In as Blackhawks Goalie.
I am going to have an amazing must read article about this subject next Sunday. As a teaser about the topic, you can read this about these weird advisors who put clients first 🙂 Why do so few people use non-conflicted financial advisors? Be careful out there!
Yeah, what a site! The Mirny Diamond Mine Might Be The Most Mysterious Hole Ever.
Not sure what is going on today with all these cold places! Spellbinding Photos From The Frozen World Of The Earth’s Northernmost Settlement.
Fascinating! The Relationship Between Money and Happiness.
I am not going to be adding the BLOG BUZZ headline for now as I am continuing to adjust my time spent on this blog while trying to keep the content quality as high as you have become accustomed to. But the general flow will continue: Start with general hobby links, then travel links, then some weird and/or news worthy far out links, a personal finance piece and then up to three links with amazing images. Then followed by Blog Buzz stuff as in advanced hobby links, some blog buzzy news and always ending with a funny pic/gif.
I just can not believe that the University of Michigan will be playing for the NCAA National Title tonight #wow!
No credit card links yet. I am likely out for good but there is a short ray of hope. I will update when things are finalized. Thanks for your support. With JetBlue 3x down with Amazon you now have no excuse to not use my Amazon link 🙂
I must say that Monkey Miles has stuck around and paid his dues. Surprisingly, he is still around and his content is actually getting pretty good lately too! Here are two posts worthy of your time:
Tips to booking Alaska Airlines award flights like A PRO.
Finding value in Hyatt’s home-share partner, Oasis Collections.
Wish Personal Finance Digest congratulations for the sell out! Lol
In case you missed it, there are some changes in the Hilton Honors airline partners now that the unique Double Dip offering is dead. Not that you should care about this!
And I leave you with this…
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Indeed!
Well, how would it make you feel when this happens Monday morning:
Mailchimp informed me that my monthly fee for sending out the blog posts to subscriber list goes from $10 to $15 per month
and
then Amazon tells me I lost $6.88 because of returns
On a more positive note, I canned Business Insider from my Feedly list which was BY FAR the most active feed, we are talking like 300 posts per day!
Other than that, GO BLUE tonight!
You all have a great day!
Too bad about the Surpass restriction.
IHG card will now be limited to 40,000 point equivalents, too, per the mailing I got today. Starting with certs issued 5/1/18.
I’ve been backing off expending effort on hotel loyalty for awhile, and that trend is going to continue.
Yeah, the IHG cards are becoming irrelevant. I am canceling wife’s card soon. And I need to figure out if I should keep mine.
We blew our IHG nights in the Miami Kimpton Surfcomber. DO NOT DO THE SAME MISTAKE!
Maybe it is time to go all apartments/AirBNB way with hotels in the future, sad!
No word on the plastic links. I am ready to move on without them. So I can swear as much as Windbag Miles lol.
Brace yourselves for Daily Getaway nodeals, yawn.
Sellout! Not swearing to please the Man?
I thought you were for real?
What did you say?
For all the Titan bloggers who did glorious posts pumping the hell out of the IHG card proclaiming it to be the BEST travel rewards hotel card…well, bravo! I guess they had lots of sales and then Chase took notice. And you are bitching at TBB??? WTF is wrong with da internet these days?
what a story for TBB readers #mindblowingtotheleft
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/03/27/feds-say-self-help-guru-coerced-followers-into-sex-had-them-branded-with-a-cauterizing-pen/?utm_term=.f6cf0749eb3e
Can someone check on Ramsey and tell him not to check his 401k account because his leader…well, he is all of a sudden silent on how high he can make the stock market go. What an imbecile (Donnie, not Ramsey).
Where is Ingy? Maybe he is visiting Ramsey?
The IHG downfall is the latest sign that the ‘hobby’ can’t sustain expanding to everyone. Facebook pages scoop in members like a fishing net catches minnows, and Chase/IHG decide that giving out $300++ per night hotel rooms for $49 gets them a lot of members who never buy a hotel room. C’est moi.
I’m not into Air BnB, but there are a lot of smaller hotels in most places that are quite good with prices that don’t build in all the crap I never use. And I’ll have 2x$49 plus 2x$75 to help pay for them after I dump the IHG and Hyatt cards.
Do Chase cards I cancel lower the 5/24 bar?
As for the stock market & Trump: What did you expect?
TPG just raises his points validation guide on the IHG Rewards points
Lol.
canceling/no lowering 5/24
Time for hotel free agency as well
Eh? IHG has even permanently reduced the price at which it sells points ….
The hits just keep on coming now non stop…
RIP Travel Hacking
Sad!
The ‘game’ was good while it lasted. I wonder where the quality 40,000 point properties are? Oh wait. I know. They’re in the same locations as those 5000 point Hiltons. ROTFLOL.
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