Credit Cards

After many, many months of being somewhere on a nondescript waiting list, the official invitation came across. With no scheming, I’m somehow off the list. And also, I’m seriously thinking of pulling the trigger, particularly because I’m going to be missing a a high-earn everywhere card come end of year (see my separate post on […]

Because I made a big mistake in my finance tracking, I just paid $115.34 in interest on my Truist Future card. In my finance tracking spreadsheet I noted September’26 as the purchase rate promotional expiration, but I was many, many months off. Despite having the funds parked in a high yield savings account, when the

Every so often I stumble across an offer that makes me think, “no, that can’t be right”. As I look deeper to understand the gimmicks and gotchas, that offer becomes even more outrageous, and also somehow confirms the genuine and impressive nature of the offer. This offer from Venmo (Paypal) is just that. 6-month enhanced

If you’re out there driving around, you feel the gas price surge in your pocketbook. In barely a month, prices have surged more than 30%, from under $3.00 a gallon to over $4.00 (link). That is directly a result of US war against Iran, which is constraining supply, materializing in the prices we pay across

Somehow we made it. And in making it, we’ve got a range of new quarter-only promotional enhanced earn to take advantage of. No stunning categories or amazing new products worth highlighting (though I added the Citi Custom Cash below, as it’s effectively rotating) There are four big-bank rotating cards worth considering This quarter has some

I love a good wellness tracker. I’m basically bonded to my Garmin Epix watch, and the morning reports do bring me a strange, bleary-eyed joy. I have no need for a second wellness tracking device (and one more thing to charge!) But what I do enjoy greatly is a good discount, and a quick flip

I’m sitting on almost $600k in available credit across my various cards. I do take advantage of the occasional 0% promotion, but I have no need for the vast majority of that credit. That said, I do greatly enjoy testing out various experiences, and I also get a kick out of getting my cards some

There really is no better place to be in the middle of winter than on vacation somewhere tropical! I splurged $8 on internet for this first leg of our Alaska Airlines flight to Maui (currently halfway across the continental US). Given the many, many hundreds that this card has saved me (over $500 on the

Anyone who knows me knows my very vocal position on sports betting. I won’t hash that here beyond describing the industry broadly as evil and predatory. Like any gambling, they get a good hook and get consumers to literally burn money. That makes the core foundation of this product also genuinely terrible. I hope G-Bank

You buy something and it doesn’t work. Doesn’t fit. Don’t love it. Can’t make it work. You feel like you just wasted your money because, well, you did. While many merchants play ball and have a return policy that affords some flexibility, some don’t. The reality is, if you put that on a card, you