From Points and Miles to Passports and Memories
I started brand new to the points and miles world In September of 2024, now less than 6 months later I have already booked my first trip, worked on the maximizing my card benefits, and have enough points to book trip number 2 as soon as I convince my family that it is a good idea! I want to show people who are brand new to this world what is possible even when you are starting at the bottom and climbing to the top of the world!
Episodes
Today I go over some of the main co-branded cards and their top spending categories as well as the transferable reward currency that might match up to it. Short answer, yes having a co branded card is worth it, long answer is it really depends on your use and how much you focus on reward categories.
Today I go over some of the $0 annual fee cards and how they can help enhance the points and miles game. Please note that I also give information on how to pair these with annual fee cards to get the maximum benefits.
Today I go into our issues with our recent AIRbnb, some of the flags that I should have noticed, and how we got the issue resolved.
Today I do a dive into what are points, what are perks and credits, and what are offers. We go into what they have in common, how they are different, and the best way to take advantage of some of them.
Today I go into some of the perks that we have received on our hotels without free breakfast and ask the question: Are nicer hotels without free breakfast better or worse, and are the perks worth the splurge? You can be the one to decide the answers, and I would love to hear your feedback!
Today I go over the 68,000 points and $220 in credit card perks that we used for our 36 hour family getaway!
Today I dive into some of the main expenses that a family might have over the course of a month. I share some of my favorite cards to auto bill these expenses on and talk about how many points you may get throughout the year.
Please remember that if you are taking this strategy it won't get you all of the points that you need forever, but that it will help you get a few more intentional points if you are ...
Today I go over some of the annual fees that have started to hit or will hit in the next 6 months and what we plan to do with the cards as we hit the one or two year mark.
Today I dive into some of the perks to make traveling smoother and easier. I go over what you may have and use and the advantages that each of them will give you.
Today I dive into a short and sweet episode on what a transfer bonus is and how they can be leveraged to get more for fewer points.
If you are checking in real time I go over some of the perks that you have in Paze, how I spent mine, and things to be careful of in the process. This promotion is scheduled to end 9/10/26.
Also side note: I did start the process with chase of pointing out my paze transactions and they are working on switching it over for me!
Today I go over some of the points to consider to help you set yourself reasonable expectations on how many cards you can open in 12 months.
We are soaking up the last few weeks of summer vacation. I decided to re upload our first redemption episode as we enjoy the end of our summer!
Today I go through the simple things that we do on a regular trip, and reasons that we might not be as luxury as many people seem to think.
Today I have a short and sweet episode on some quick and easy solutions if you have smaller amounts of points sitting in multiple places.
Today I go into some of the wins and some of the loses in public transportation, and lessons that we learned along the way.
Today I go through some options that a family of five could use to get to Rome in spring of 2026. I also take the time to go through a ton of credits and perks that they can utilize in the process to help offset their trip.
Today my daughter gets a chance to explain our adventures in Disneyland, Paris and some of the high points throughout the day. We talk about some incredible rides and some of the high points of the day.
Today I go over some of the things that we did in our trip to Belgium, and some of the things that we just didn't have time for.
This was our outdoor adventure and ropes course.
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Today I dive into some of the humorous and more serious problems that I have run into during this adventure into the world of points and miles.
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