Miles & Points

In February, my family faced a terrible situation.  A close (young) family member only had days to live–at most.  And we needed to get out there as fast as possible. A quick flight search showed prices in the thousands for a last second flight.  But when we searched using miles, …

When I’ve been booking flights, I’ve also tried to calculate how many miles I would earn for my flights at the same time.  This could influence where I chose to connect through, or whether I wanted to take a slightly higher fare (for more miles).  But I’ve had to manually …

I’m a impulsive flexible person.  So as long as I have nothing else planned, I’m up for almost anything last second. For reasons too complicated to go into, lunch plans I had tentatively been  making with my mother and sister suddenly had to happen right away or never at all.  In …

  Inside Flyer just highlighted my husband’s frequent flyer savvy when buying my engagement ring--he made sure it also secured our honeymoon! In addition to this, the story also goes into detail about how we walked away from the wedding with 300,000 points. We’re in the process of planning a …

I am currently in the situation where I need to spend a lot of money at Sears in the near future.  And there are situations where it makes sense to forgo the miles & points earning cards to rely on a cash back card… when there’s a great opportunity. What I …

How do you make the most out things like going for US Airways Trial Preferred Status, or the Triple EQMs people like Keri got? We don’t have a magic ball that shows us where the fares are.  Unless you count The Flight Deal, in which case–we do! I’m using US …

I just wanted to drop a note to everyone to check out Tiff’s interview on Million Mile Secrets today. We’ve been so thankful to have Tiff write for us–she’s managed to take her family on some amazing trips.  Oh, and she drank Spirit’s wine in a can for us.  (SORRY …

When I went to book my honeymoon, my options seemed limitless at first.  I had a crazy amount of US Airways miles and the world was my oyster.  Thailand? Singapore?  …Antarctica? But this is my honeymoon, and the more complicated I made an itinerary, the more I realized I would …

We decided to have our wedding up in New York, since I have an incredible (and overwhelming!) number of relatives.  Because Bill is from Texas, we currently live in DC, and we both have country-hopped a little, we had friends coming in from all over. This required us to get …

Post-engagement, wedding planing took off.  I started realized a lot of these large charges at once from deposits could really help me hit minimum spend, so  I got the Chase Ink (50k) and moved my work spending to that, and I already had the Chase Sapphire while it was still …