Before I got into the world of credit cards and travel rewards, I only had one credit card – and importantly, it had no annual fee. Credit cards with annual fees didn’t make much sense to me. Why, after all, would I pay a bank in order to have the privilege of spending my own […]
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Combining SoFi Experiences And Travel Hacking For Free Flights And Free Events
It’s been a while since I’ve talked about SoFi and how much value I’ve received from refinancing my student loans with them way back in 2015. Refinancing did two things for me. First, it dramatically lowered my interest rate, which made it easier for me to pay off my student loans as fast as I […]
Financial Panther 2018 Credit Card Recap: 1 Million Points Earned In One Year!
A year ago, I wrote a post in which I recapped all of the credit cards that I opened in 2017. That year was a big milestone for me – it marked my first year ever of travel hacking. Prior to 2017, I only had two credit cards. One was a Citi credit card that […]
How To Start Travel Hacking – What Should Be Your First Credit Card?
One of the things that initially held me back with the whole credit card and travel hacking game is that I didn’t really understand where to begin. There was a lot of information that I needed to know if I wanted to play the game right and when you come in with no knowledge, it […]
What’s In My Wallet: A List Of All Of My Credit Cards
Over the past year and a half, my wife and I have accumulated hundreds of thousands of points and miles from the strategic opening and use of credit cards. These points and miles have served us well, allowing us to do a ton of traveling over the past year that we otherwise wouldn’t have been […]