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How to make $50 in 10 minutes with Rakuten
Rakuten is an awesome cash back shopping platform that gives you cash just for shopping at your favorite companies. You don’t have to change anything that you’re already doing. There used to...
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The complete guide to earning free bonus points and miles
Is there anything better than earning free points especially for doing something you were already going to do anyway? If there is, I haven’t found it. There are a number of ways to earn points by linking...
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How to redeem credit card points (with Chase Ultimate Rewards as an example)
You’ve learned about travel hacking, you’ve put together a great strategy like the Chase Trifecta, you’ve optimized your spend and you’ve earned a ton of points. Now it’s time for all that hard work to...
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When does it make sense to pay a fee to use a credit card to pay a bill?
Wouldn’t it be nice if every single expense in life could be paid by a credit card? Well it’d be nice for us travel hackers but I’m sure it would get other people in trouble since not everyone has self-control,...
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I tried out Southwest’s new Same-Day Standby
When I booked my trip to Ohio, I booked the flights first and then the rental car. I should have done it the other way around but for whatever reason, I thought it would be fine. Once I got around to it,...
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Calculating the value of points and miles
The goal of travel hacking is to 1) earn the most amount of points and miles for your purchases and sign up bonuses and 2) to get the most amount of value out of those points or miles when you redeem them....
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How much are points and miles worth?
You can earn all the points in the world but you’re not really travel hacking unless you get good value for those points and miles. The problem is that they all have different values. Value is...