As professional sports team managers famously say to the press, this past year was a bit of a rebuilding year. What I mean by that is that this past year I focused on maximizing the credit cards I already carried vs. opening new ones and changing strategies. In doing this I was able to easily…
Several weeks ago I received an email from Citi informing me that I’d be receiving a new contactless credit card. In the past year I’ve had a few different homes addresses and unfortunately, that card never arrived. Then, about two weeks ago I moved to a new apartment and updated my mailing address and requested…
That’s the subject line of the email I received from Citi just over a week ago. As you can guess, I was pretty excited when I read that subject line and immediately clicked into the email. I’ve had the Citi ThankYou Premier card for about 2 years now. I got the card when I downgraded…
If you are familiar with the complex world of credit cards you may be familiar with the term sock-drawering. Sock drawering is the practice of storing certain credit cards that you don’t use all that often (ever), but want to keep open. We keep the cards open because of a certain benefit the card offers…
For those who don’t live in the New York City area, you might not be too familiar with Blade. Essentially, Blade is like Uber, but instead of requesting a cloth lined Toyota Camry with “Black Ice,” you request a helicopter. Blade offers helicopters from New York City to the various airports, the Hamptons, or other…
In a recent post about Electric Vehicle Charging at Hotels I mentioned that earlier this year I bought a Tesla Model 3. So far ownership has been perfect. I’ve put just over 6,000 miles on the car and haven’t had any issues with the car. What’s also incredible is that the car is quite different…
I find it hard to believe that 2019 is more than halfway over. What’s even harder to believe is that I’m done flying to earn elite status. Any day now I should receive American Airlines AAdvantage credit for my most recent flight in Business Class on Cathay Pacific. Once those miles post to my account…
The other day I saw a rather interesting email from Chase regarding my Sapphire Reserve card. It was a standard marketing email, but one that caught my eye. It caught my eye because it was promoting a use of points that I would never advise and one that is typically a terrible value. That is,…
Amazon Prime is quickly becoming my favorite way to buy nearly everything. I was a bit late to Prime Membership as I only signed up back in 2016. Until that point I had a car and didn’t mind driving to the store to grab what I needed. However, over time I moved closer to downtown…
One of the things that I love about traveling as much as I’ve been fortunate enough to do is that you gain experience. You learn how to haggle, you learn how to cut corners, and you learn to be thrifty. All in all, I’d argue that traveling allows you to learn “street smarts” the quickest…
