A week ago Nicoleen was warned by the manager of our local SuperAmerica that double coupon Tuesdays would be discontinued at the end of this month. Yesterday, at another SuperAmerica station, I confirmed this rumor when I saw this sign at the pump: Double coupon Tuesday has been the bread and butter of our free Read More »
Adam Sandler’s character in “Punch Drunk Love” working on hoarding 1,000,000 miles through a loophole in a product label promotion. He’d better spend some before the next devaluation! In last week’s update I mentioned that I recently realized I had close to 1 million points and miles in various airline, hotel, and credit card programs. Read More »
While recently updating my big credit card spreadsheet, I realized that Nicoleen and I have almost a million points and miles built up! This is probably not a good thing, and I’ll explain why in an upcoming post. We’ve gained a lot of points lately, mainly through sign-up bonuses, but some will be offloaded soon Read More »
Last month Nicoleen, I, and the 4 oldest kids embarked on our first real family vacation. We anticipated some challenges in traveling with 4 kids aged 8 and under, so we planned a pretty simple and straight forward trip. The plan was for 5 days and 4 nights in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Read More »
The Holiday Inn at Rushmore Plaza in Rapid City, South Dakota, was an unexpected shot of luxury on our family road trip earlier this month. I’m not talking ‘Four Seasons’ luxury; but luxury compared to the 12 hour packed car ride it took to get there, and luxury compared to the 3 nights of tent Read More »
In this update: our points and miles totals for May, a review of recent ValueTactics posts, a report of recent vacation activity, and a look forward to upcoming free vacation action! With my vastly lowered commuting mileage I’ve not been saving as much on gas lately, although the percentage savings tends to hover around the Read More »
American Airlines miles (AAdvantage miles) are some of my favorite points and miles. American typically has very good award seat availability, including premium cabins. AAdvantage miles are also easy to come by, partly because of some good credit card sign-up bonuses, and partly because of the frequent bonus offers promoted by American’s co-branded cards. I’m Read More »
A few months ago I posted this photo of a pile of credit card activation stickers I didn’t even realize I had collected: Well, it happened again! A few days ago I looked down at my desk and noticed I had a pretty decent sized pile of assorted value tactics related stuff going: Let’s analyze Read More »
