Good afternoon everyone, there are a few questions regarding the new Southwest Airlines devaluation (Travel Summary post). The questions that come to mind are: why now?; what exactly is changing?; and how will this affect my traveling plans? I’m sorry, I don’t have answers to any of those questions, but I have a tip on how to make the devaluation less painful.
The other day, I was tweeting with my friend Josh @ FrugalHack.me and I asked him if he wanted to write a guest post for me. I have been following Josh’s blog for a few months and I like his writing style and topics (he covers MS strategies and cash back deals). If you like reading Travel with Grant, you will probably like reading FrugalHack.me as well. With that said, take it away Josh…
There’s no doubt that my wife and I love weekend trips. Truthfully, we’d like them to be longer, but we just don’t have the vacation time to use. So, we just make do with what we have and it works, quite well actually.
These trips aren’t long, hence the “weekend” part, so there really needs to be a game plan in place to make sure the time off is well used. I don’t want to brag, but now that we’ve taken quite a few of these weekend trips, we’re kind of experts at making the most of them.
Want to learn how to do it? Of course you do! :)
Updated at 9:30am PST on 1/31/2015: the winners of the contest have been chosen. Scroll to the bottom of this post to see who won.
This is an idea that came to me a few weeks ago, but I never gave it much thought until writing my recent tell-all MS posts (Part 1: My Manufactured Spend and Redbird Loading Strategy and Part 2: My Manufactured Spend Strategy with PayPal, Chime, Meetups, Reselling, and More!). If you assumed the miles, points, or cash back posted right away (rather than when the statement closed), could you MS during the week to pay for a weekend trip?
To make things more realistic, let’s ignore credit card sign up bonuses and only focus on using the credit cards and prepaid cards you currently have today. Timing is everything, so let’s assume today is the first of the month and all your monthly MS limits have been reset (Bluebird, Serve, Redbird, PayPal, etc.). Your net out of pocket expenses should be $100 or less.
Good evening, Chime is ringing in the new year with a new promo called Chime in the New Year. I received an email this afternoon and there are some good offers. I will show you how the promo works. If you are new to Chime, please read this post.
After you log into your Chime account, there is a new tab in the upper right corner called Resolutions (link).
Good morning everyone, I hope you are having a great holiday season with your friends and family members. Today, I have a guest post from my friend Nigel, where he is sharing his experience with his recent App-O-Rama. Take it away Nigel…
In brief, an App-O-Rama (AOR) is a strategy in the miles/points community where an individual applies for multiple credit cards within a short period of time to maximize their odds of getting approved for multiple credit cards. For me, this typically involves submitting four or more applications within seconds of each other in the hope that the banks don’t denied me for “too many inquires.”
With my Experian inquires starting to pile up from prior AORs, I wanted to limit this AOR to two Experian hits. After doing some research on the Credit Boards credit pull database (link), I discovered that applications for the Diners Club Elite Credit Card have reliably resulted in a Transunion inquiry. I was quite excited at the news, except there was one problem…
