Blue Cash $25 Promotion

Our Blue Cash card was the topic of a nice chat I had this week with Reuters journalist Linda Stern.  She was looking for examples of people who were using rewards credit cards and she ran aross my article on how we use our AmEx Blue Cash card. I wrote the article several years ago so her […]

Gettting from Prepaid to Postpaid

Today’s post is a guest post from Tim Chen, CEO of NerdWallet. Tim writes about credit cards for the Forbes Moneybuilder Blog, Huffington Post, and the Christian Science Monitor. For those with limited credit or bad credit, prepaying for services is a fact of life. This can include cell phone bills, debit cards, secured credit cards, […]

Chase Blueprint Review

Chase Blueprint is a program available to Chase credit card holders that’s designed to help customers pay off their credit card balances.  Ideally you wouldn’t carry a balance at all but the reality is that many people are in credit card debt.  If you do pay off your balance each month then there really isn’t anything […]

Credit Card Offers & Promotions

Credit card offers seem to have been piling up in my inbox after listing some of the credit card promotions last week. Discover, Chase, and Citi all have cash back or cash bonuses that I didn’t include so I’ll cover them here.  I’ll start with the card offer ending the soonest, additional cash back from […]

Cyber Monday Deals & Tips

Cyber Monday deals are all over the Web today so the question isn’t where to find the deal but which one to pick!  Personally, there’s nothing I need but if you’re looking for deals on Christmas gifts there’s probably a promotion out there for you. Here are a few places to look for bargains online: Christmas […]

Airline Credit Card Rewards for the Holidays

Airline credit card rewards are one way to help ease the cost of travel over the holiday season.  The next two months are the busiest air travel time of the year and a lot of travel cards are offering promotions and free flights to help sweeten the deal. My sister is flying in over the holidays and already […]

Southwest Airlines Credit Card Review

The  card is a great airline rewards card, not only because you get cash and bonus points for signing up but also because its a great airline to fly on. The Southwest Rapid Rewards program is just one example of how the airline works hard to keep their customers happy.  I have friends and family […]

Blue Cash Rewards Upgrade!

One of my least favorite things about our Blue Cash card, the annual cash back redemption will be changing soon.  In the middle of next month American Express is upgrading the way that you redeem your cash back rewards for Blue Cash. Right now your rewards show up as a credit on your statement, once […]

Online Credit Card Protection

Credit card fraud is one of the most common forms of identity theft reported in the United States each year. Here are five strategies you can use to help protect and monitor your credit card number online. 1) Virtual Credit Card NumbersSome of the best credit cards for shopping online offer virtual account numbers that help you […]

American Express Credit Card Airline Bonuses

American Express has two pretty good credit card offers for airline bonuses, one of which is ending soon. American Express Premier Rewards Gold The Premier Rewards Gold Card is offering 25,000 American Express membership rewards points for new card members.  After you charge $1000 on the card during your first three months you’ll receive the […]

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