There is no major news going on these days in the credit card world. Chase has tightened some rules around credit card issuance. Citi continues to put some good credit card offers. But no one had really upped the game. Then this is also not one of those time of the year with great offers. As promised at the outset and remaining true to this blog's values, if there are no news worth your attention or my attention, then there would be no posting either. There is no point in having a financial or credit card blog roll with daily 1 or 3 posts minimum to satisfy advertisement view page requirements.
One idea that stuck me while meeting recent cards spending requirements is the buying of airline gift cards. While this is kind of obvious in that one buys gift cards of grocers/restaurants and shops that one visits often; the airline one stood out. While the goal of this blog is to generate points and thus free travel, often times it is good to bulk up on cards from domestic airlines which have a hub nearby. United or Southwest or American - all of them are good with hubs in many places. Southwest and Jetblue fly to a lot of destinations. In such cases, it is better to load up on gift cards from this. I fly southwest a lot and will be using them for sure in many instances. So it makes sense to load up on SW gift cards as they never expire. Just an idea- many of these obvious but we kind of miss them in our daily grind of the lives as well as not having a clear tip on what we can and cannot do.
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