This time of year can be kind of depressing with the cold and dreariness and all. We are now past the holidays and still have quite a ways to go until spring break. Nothing but the daily grind for the near future. Ugh! It all makes me want to veg out on the beach in [...]
Have a Visa or Mastercard, or did you have one between 1996 and 2006? Then you may be due some money from a recent legal settlement related to disclosures and fees related to foreign currency transactions and fees. If you used a Visa, Mastercard or Diners Club card (charge, credit or debit/ATM) issued in the [...]
Here is a crazy brilliant scheme I came across this morning in the Fatwallet Finance forum. In a thread discussing the best use of AMEX Membership Rewards points, user jairocon posted the following way to use AMEX points for Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards credits. Keep in mind that you need 16 Rapid Rewards credits to [...]
Here’s a pretty good promotion for those who haven’t signed up for Southwest Airline’s Rapid Rewards program. Enroll in their program using this link and they give you 8 RR credits to start your account: https://www.southwest.com/rrenroll/sfo/ Also part of the promotion is they give you double credit for flights into and out of San Francisco [...]
As I mentioned a few days ago I had to travel for work early last week, and as I waited for my delayed flight at Newark Airport (as if New Jersey wasn’t crappy enough, I had to spend hours in a crappy airport in New Jersey) I noted several flights which were oversold and were [...]
OK, not really personal finance related, but I thought this site was pretty cool. There’s some other crap there too, but the cool feature is that you can create a customized map showing what states and countries you have visited. Mine is below. The site is www.travbuddy.com . My map here!
I posted a little while back about my brother-in-law’s adventures with Northwest Airlines trying to get from Houston to Gatlinburg Tennessee. In summary, he missed his original flight due to unusual traffic backups, a fender-bender in the airport parking garage, a change in gate to a different terminal, and a broken metal detector (none of [...]
I got this from my brother-in-law (the same one I referenced in my last CVS post) and thought I would share his experience with the world. And just when I thought the US Postal Service had taken the prize for poor customer service and general incompetence, here comes Northwest Airlines to claim this dubious distinction. [...]