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Earlier this week, we showed you the plethora of credit cards we’ve applied for over the past five years, and how many bonus miles and points we’ve earned for our small effort. Today I’m going to list all of our award redemptions, flights, hotels and all. Ha-Ling Peak, Canmore We haven’t paid for a flight … Read more
Hi everyone. Norm coming to you live from Ridinkulous Headquarters from a new (to me) laptop and a newly configured WordPress. These things, along writing so intermittently, are throwing me for a loop, so excuse me if I sound a little hoarse. Things have been chugging along here as usual. Since I last wrote at … Read more
I’ve always been into any scheme that lets me get something for nothing. That’s why I fell so hard for the credit card-churning game. For very little effort, I can reap huge (“YUGE!”) benefits. Fifty thousand points one month, forty thousand points another month… It adds up, and before you know it, you’re swimming in … Read more
By our standards, 2015 was a disappointing year for earning miles and points. Between Marge & myself, we were approved for 9 credit cards in 2015. In terms of bonuses, that means we earned 450,000 miles and points combined. For us, this is less than we earned in 2012, 2013 or 2014. But by a normal human’s standards, … Read more
It was a life-changing moment. And I recognized it as such while it was happening. It was early 2011 and I sat in my car finishing up a Planet Money podcast before going in the house. It was a story about people buying dollar coins from the US Mint with credit cards, depositing the coins, and … Read more