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in Hotel Credit Cards

Can You Earn Hotel Rewards if Your Employer Pays for the Room?

Earning hotel rewards as part of a loyal member is easy. You book your room, you add your rewards or loyalty number when you do so and you earn points for every dollar you spend at the hotel. However, what happens when you are not the one paying for the room? It happens, quite often, […] More
in Taxes

How Health Savings Account Contributions can Trim Your Tax Burden

Now that the year end is almost here, many taxpayers are scrambling to find a way to lower their tax liability; one way is through making Health Savings Account Contributions. It’s an often over-looked manner of lowering your tax liability, but it can be a tremendous help when it comes to ensuring you get what […] More
in Personal Finance

Five Financial Scams to Watch Out for This Holiday Season

Unfortunately, financial scams are not few and far between; and they’re not even always very good. Sadly, the world is filled with trusting people who take others at their word and believe whatever is said to them. I will never forget the first time that someone tried to con me into a financial scam a […] More
in How to Save Money

How To Get Amazon Prime for Free During the Holidays

If you do not already have an Amazon Prime membership, there is no better time than the holidays to get one. Of course, we know that there are so many different reasons why you might or might not want to bother, so we get that you might not want to invest another $99 into something […] More
in Savings Account

Everything You Need to Know about a Health Savings Account

Rising healthcare costs have led more and more people to require high-deductible health insurance plans as well as use Health Savings Accounts. The problem is that healthcare is more expensive than ever before, which means more and more Americans are unable to afford it. With the promise of affordable healthcare from the Obamacare plan, many […] More
in Budgeting

10 Ways You Are Sabotaging Your Weekly Grocery Budget

What’s your weekly grocery budget? I am always on a mission to find out how I can lower my weekly grocery budget without cutting coupons and without sacrificing whatever it is we like and need most each week. Basically, I need prices to just drop dramatically and that’s all. In all seriousness, I am not […] More
in Hotel Credit Cards

How To Earn 2x HHonors Points or Airline Miles with Hilton Stays in Early 2016

If you are a Hilton Hotel lover, you will be very pleased to hear about the new promotion that runs January 1 through April 30 in the New Year. During this timeframe, all Hilton HHonors Reward members are eligible to earn a pretty lucrative bonus during any and all stays, but you have to choose […] More
in Rewards Credit Cards

IHG Has An Incredibly Generous Accelerate 2016 Bonus Offer

IHG wants their customers and reward members to stay with them in the New Year, so the hotel group is offering a promotion that’s worth looking into whether you had travel plans or not. The Accelerate 2016 bonus promotion is not one I can break down for you by points. Unlike the other promotional stays, […] More
in How to Save Money

How to Make Your Holiday Gifts Look Amazing on the Cheap

Carefully matched wrapping paper, coordinating gift tags, beautiful ribbon and matching bows are expensive, yet we all spend entirely too much on just these things. It doesn’t matter that the gift in the paper is a very expensive Apple Watch, designer handbag or little blue box from the world’s most famous jewelry store. All that […] More
in How to Save Money

New Trick To Get Existing Uber Users a $20 Credit

Uber users are obsessed with the service, and for good reason. It’s proven to be quite the amazing invention for those who want to get a ride, be safe or find their way home without paying a fortune for a cab, fighting for a cab on the streets of major cities or even trying to […] More
in How to Save Money

10 Things You Should Never, Ever Pay For

Often when we think of achieving financial freedom, we think of becoming excessively wealthy thanks to a high-paying career. Of course, that’s very nice; who doesn’t want to do something that they love doing and make enough to live a financially free lifestyle in the process? However, we often overlook one very simple method of […] More
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How to Earn Double Starpoints on SPG Stays in Early 2016

The news that Marriott is acquiring Starwood Hotels is old at this point, and people are still pretty upset about the idea that their SPG points might not be worth very much when the merger occurs in mid-2016. However, that does not change the fact that SPG is still offering some pretty lucrative earning opportunities, […] More

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