We’ve spoken and emailed with many people through our free travel rewards coaching program and so many are astounded when they hear the deals you can get by using British Airways Avios points on actual American Airlines flights. The same holds true for Alaska Airlines flights, which has a huge network in the western part…
Stress-Free Cooking Installment 3: Cauliflower Pepperoni Pasta
This Cauliflower & Pepperoni Pasta is one of the easiest meals you’ll ever make! We love it because it’s different than most pasta dishes in that it’s not served with a sauce. It easily makes enough for you to have a meal of leftovers and it seriously takes about 5-10 minutes of prep time. I…
How Much Money Do You Actually Need to Retire?
Have you ever plugged your information into a retirement calculator on a site like Fidelity.com? If you have, you’ll find their starting point for your retirement income is your current income, which I suppose makes sense if you’re one of the vast majority of people who spends every last dollar you earn. In that case…
Travel Rewards: Free New York to Bermuda Vacation in Style
Here’s another post in our travel rewards tips series designed to show you how much value you can get by opening up targeted credit cards to earn luxury travel for free: Laura and I are very much in travel planning mode for our big trip for the summer of 2014 and one option we’re investigating…
Travel Rewards: Two Free Boston to Dublin Round-Trip Flights with One Credit Card Signup
PLEASE NOTE: THIS ‘SWEET SPOT’ FOR 25,000 IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE (though the process described below is still accurate for how to book): However, you can no fly to Dublin from six US cities for only 26,000 miles round-trip during the ~8 month off-peak time. This is our first in a series of ‘travel rewards…
Stress-Free Cooking Installment 2: Gourmet Sloppy Joes
Sloppy Joes have a horrible reputation as being some less than impressive meal served out of a can that you would only feed to an 8 year old. I thought that too until I saw Rachael Ray making her version one time on TV; I just had to try it because the sandwiches looked insanely…
How much are you Spending Each Year on Gifts?
Laura and I do not exchange presents for any major holiday. I know this might sound odd, and we might appear cold and heartless to some, but it is just something we don’t do. We seriously have every material possession that we want in life, so our mental “must-buy list” contains exactly zero items. We’re…