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AmEx Offers: Spend $200 at Marriott Get $50 Back
AmEx Offers are one of the many things to appreciate about having AmEx credit cards. It’s the icing on top of an already delicious cake. AmEx has potentially lucrative AmEx Offers, but some of its cards also have high earn rates in bonus spending categories. Marriott is one of the most recent AmEx Offers. What…
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5 Best Ways to Earn ANA Mileage Club Miles
ANA Mileage Club continues to be one of the more popular American Express airline partners. There are a few reasons for this with the primary reason being the competitiveness of the ANA miles redemption chart. You simply do not need as many ANA miles to book award flights compared to competing programs. The ANA program is…
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New Orleans Travel: Visiting New Orleans in 48 Hours
The Big Easy is one of my top US cities to visit along with New York, Charleston, Portland Maine, and Napa California. New Orleans travel is one of a kind. Driven by a desire to have fun, the locals treat you like you’re from there even if you’re visiting and even when it’s outside of…
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Best Books on Amazon: Top 3 Books from January 2021
Energy and fiction were the two themes from my January books on Amazon reading list. Modernizing America’s Electricity Infrastructure, Electric Power System Basics for the Nonelectrical Professional, and I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller were the books I read. I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller was my favorite of the three. This is surprising because I generally…
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Chase Sapphire Preferred Offering $50 Grocery Credit
One of the things to appreciate about Chase is the bank’s portfolio of cards including the Chase Sapphire Preferred (card review). Another thing to appreciate is Chase’s willingness to incentivize new and existing cardmembers during the pandemic. The latest Chase Sapphire Preferred is a grocery store credit. And this makes sense right? More and more…
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