We learn how not to get screwed out of $100 when getting the Alaska Airlines credit card, learn all about Delta Skymiles if you are into this kinky practice, rejoice on the much improved Citi ThankYou Premier card offer, learn how to best use the British Airways Avios, visit Zakynthos and US Parks, learn about college costs and how to ruin teenagers for life.
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I think adding the blog into my life has totally re energized me and made me more mindful of how I am using my time, therefore more productive. I have put up a sign “No more new clients’. I may hire someone at some point but the thought of training, payroll taxes and delegating is freaking me out so I ‘ll just go TBBing instead LOL. Anyways, it is all good, hitting on all cylinders lately. I sleep walked through the first half of my forties and something happened when I hit that 45. TBB started shortly after that and since then it has all been downhill uphill! To infinity and beyond! Not sure of the timing, maybe I realized that I spent half of my life (hopefully at least) and want to leave something behind, a legacy? Sometimes I wonder how in the hell I came up with some stuff I wrote/did. Was it really me? Then again, I am my own worst critic. Maybe something growing up, trying to live up to my father who pushed me to do better and better and keep improving. Ok, that was a personal cathartic reflection from the inner whatever that word I am looking for but can’t remember of TBB.
Here is some stuff I found worthy to share which I enjoyed, hope you do too. If not, click on my links to take it out on me for wasting your time, Thanks!
PSA: Don’t Apply for the Alaska Airlines Credit Card Unless It Has a $100 Statement Credit – PointsCentric If there is one thing I think I made a contribution to this quirky hobby is to bring the issue of conflicts of interest of credit card affiliate bloggers wide in the open naming names and speaking the truth. Now it has become so common so many are doing it and I LOVE it! So if you are pumped with the affiliate offer losing out on $100 BE ANGRY and NEVER come back to that site! And yeah don’t click on mine for crying out loud, I will have trouble sleeping at night. Thankfully nobody has…I think, I remember them all. My favorite is the Prestige card 🙂
FTU DFW 2015: All About Delta SkyMiles – Rapid Travel Chai This is a really great educational presentation about Delta SkyMiles. I do not like FTUs because it is dominated by Titanic salesmen of plastic proportions, see TBB Blogs To Ignore. This is my own humble opinion. I express it here without remorse and I don’t care if it is bad for my blogging business. Wait for it, wait for it. Blogging business, say whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? If you are not laughing you are just way too serious!
Excellent Citi ThankYou Premier 50K Bonus that Makes It All Even Better! – The Lazy Traveler’s Handbook Wow, is Citibank coming back or what? Great to see it becoming competitive again! I should knock out a few in this household. But I am swimming in miles/points dear readers. Am I losing my touch? Am I getting bored? Getting a bunch more only to be angry when they devalue again shortly after they hit our accounts? Oh the tough choices we make separating miles/points from our favorite banks. Life is so hard sometimes. Just as I was creating some space in Award Wallet by knocking off all the US Air accounts…#rolleyes
How to Save British Airways Avios with Stopovers – Travel Is Free This is rad.
Zakynthos, Greece – Our Favorite Island (and first Video) – Travel Is Free If this is your first video, get into making a movie dude. WOW, incredible job. I think you captured the essence of the island and I have not even been there (but I can relate what is like in the Greek Isles remembering my youth having great times with Scandinavian beauties #evilsmiles). Posts like these two featured here make this blog THE blog to learn from in this quirky hobby.
Want to get rich quick? Start a blog! – Personal Finance Digest Probably one of the funniest blog posts I have read recently. I was on the floor laughing uncontrollably. Must read imho. Well done. Laughter is the best medicine.
33 Stunning Pictures of US Parks I may have shared this before I think but run into it again and bookmarked it to share it with you because I loved these pictures!
Behind on retirement savings? Here are 3 ways to catch up CNNMoney Pretty good read. Hope not the case for you because you read TBB #winning
The average cost of tuition, fees and room & board at private and public colleges/universities:
How to Ruin Your Relationship With Your Teenager – The Mid This is a wonderful article. I have ruined one but hoping to salvage the other one with my 12 year old daughter 🙂
Life is so much better not reading all these blogs in the Ignore list. You are not missing much I am telling you, try it!
I had an idea to lighten my load in this blog by introducing a side theme involving a person very dear to me who showed some initial interest. #Developing #LongTerm
Until next time, TBB on!
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Recommend a good starter card for the wife? Either AA or UA miles (or convertable to) preferred. Just reading about Citi Premier.
Sorry about last nights game … Damn ringers
There’s a Chase card for every occasion.
The Chase Ritz Carlton can be used as a weapon. Great for self defense. It’s popular among secret service agents paying for prostitutes in Columbia. No foreign exchange fee.
The exceptionally sexy Chase Sapphire Preferred will make her want to wave it in the air like she just doesn’t care. This card will blow your budget and ruin your retirement plans. Apparently this card is very popular among cougars and retired pederasts.
Chase Hyatt will get you two free nights at an all inclusive adult brothel.
But make sure you use an app that offers a statement credit! Or just go for the Hawaiian Airlines World Super Elite MasterCard, it’s truly the card that rules them all.
ABC and In the Know: Those were funny, especially the sell for the Chase Ritz Carlton card LOL.
Mr Nice: You can’t go wrong with the Citi® / AAdvantage® Platinum Select® MasterCard® for 50k AA miles. It’s in my links. Pays the lowest commissions unlike the Prestige card lol. I think it’s time to look in my files to see it is time to go for them again…probably too early. Darn Citibank it is back i the plastic dance for good, everyone eating Amex’s lunch these days!
That Points Centric article on the Alaska cards is spot on. Can you believe the conflicts of interest?
Someone shoud start a class action lawsuit.
Naaaah, disclosure cya language is all over them pages before they apply responsibly 🙂 The thing is they are so well placed nobody finds them to read them lol. We enjoy the fruits of this hobby. But make no mistake our traveling for free is done on the backs of people who get deep in it, a life event happens and then pay for it for many years/decades/life. Would like to do a parody post sometime when I find time of someone completely opposite to the typical “look at me, I am on my flat bed fling to Maldives about to take a shower aboard and then enjoy my caviar” blog sell sell sell post 🙂
Thanks for the mention, George, but…
“Am I losing my touch?”
Yes. The way you’ve been burning them miles, the day WILL come when you need all the help you can get. No matter what you’re swimming in now. 🙁
But if that doesn’t scare you, try and solve this riddle: 2xCitiTY > 1SQ F.
One day I will do the SQ F just so I can say I did it. Maldives and Necker Islands still don’t do it for me…now if I was looking for material to pump I would do them and extend them in a series of 34 posts 🙂
The only credit card I have ever been denied was a Thank You card. Still can’t believe it. A dark day in history indeed!
I am scared it may happen again….I don’t take rejection well 🙂
Yeah the Premier card is a no brainer. I need to look if my favorite cc portal offers it and go for it soon.
Wow! Denied for a Citi card? That’s gotta hurt.
I was denied for the Citi AA business card once. And yes, it hurt.
Be careful with the Citi Prestige Card, even the Titans are trying to figure out how to use it.
You’re in safe hands with the Premier CC, it’s idiot proof.
Contest time everyone…………………..Can you name the blogger who drives with the personalized license plates, IBLOG on their car?………………………….winner gets an unopened package of 50 famously popular/collectable TWA propeller replica drink stir sticks. https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTjjpVXrpJwb-laxQxS59h-I62-aw1SqQopzeDUQARzv3kx3OX3………………………………..Buzz, you have no idea how many items from the TWA planes disappeared/collected once the Airline brand was slated for extinction by the Skynazi’s………………Did I ever tell you that a Ramp Rat I know somehow drove home a TWA airplane power washer the size of a small car and kept it in his garage instead of his car. Why? I don’t know! The thing drove like a VW Beetle and was plastered in LOGO. Also the airplane liquor in aisle carts would often show up at parties fully stocked. TWA never inventoried the liquor. Small wonder they kept going bankrupt, but it made it a great place to work…….The story last week of the Alaska Air plane cleaner falling asleep inside a jet cargo hold of a jet that took off, reminded me of the shenanigans of TWA. The graveyard shift workers, many of which had day jobs, went to their night jobs at TWA to sleep……………..whatacountry.
Is it TravelWithGramps.com?
Another great TWA story.
Whatacountry lol
We know it’s not Ingy-he sold his blog three or four years ago (‘at the top’).
Lol!
Hey quit NOT blogging. I mean come on you are one of the three I actually read. I get it I get it we’re all busy, but who’s going to weed through the shit for me if not you?
I saw a Chase Sapphire Preferred commercial on my flight last weekend and thought of TBB. Guess who they had quoted on the commercial saying “The Best Travel Credit Card”…… The Points Guy!! Surprise!!
He totally deserves a reality TV show after that, he’s such a Kardashian now.
I think there has to be a TV show at some point…