Almost $8,000 Earned in 12 Months of Travel Hacking
At the end of August last year (2017) … my wife and I started our travel hacking journey. This journey started when we opened our first credit card that offered bonus points for hitting a minimum spend amount within the first 90 days. Considering we use our credit cards for 90% or more of our […]
Continue Reading9 Months of Building a Travel Rewards Portfolio of Miles and Points
Well it has been a long time since I posted a travel rewards update. Our most recent post came when we finished up the spending on my Marriott Business card (which we call card #5). That card earned us over 78,000 Marriott Rewards points … which puts the potential value at $703.95 by using a […]
Continue ReadingHow We Added $700 Worth of Free Travel with Marriott
My wife and I opened up our first travel rewards card about 8 months ago … and have earned approximately $7,946 towards future travel. All of this future free travel has been earned by opening up 6 new credit cards and meeting the minimum spending requirements to earn sign up bonuses. We are also working […]
Continue ReadingHow to Earn $600 in Free Travel from a Fixed Value Credit Card
Since opening up our first travel rewards card, our family has earned approximately $7,240 towards future travel. This free travel has been acquired by opening up 5 new credit cards and meeting the minimum spending requirements to earn bonus sign-up points. In addition to those 5 credit cards, we are currently working on 3 more. […]
Continue ReadingHow We Used One Big Expense to Earn $1,000 in Free Travel
Last fall (about 6 months ago), I opened up our first travel rewards card. After reading stories of people earning thousands and thousands of dollars in free travel … my wife and I were hooked. That first card earned us over $500 in free travel, so we decided to open up 3 additional cards over […]
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