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Sept. 28, 2024

๐Ÿค‘ My Top Finds, Latest Deals, and Best Recommendations (9/28/24)

๐Ÿค‘ My Top Finds, Latest Deals, and Best Recommendations (9/28/24)

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๐Ÿ’ธ The Simple Path to Wealth and FU Money

Building wealth is not always about money, it's about freedom — to spend your time, to choose your career, to live your life on your own terms. JL Collins, author of โ€‹The Simple Path to Wealthโ€‹, shares his 3-step approach to earn "FU" money and discusses the power of low-cost index fund investing, and other effective strategies to create long-term wealth.

 

๐Ÿ›ซ Travel, Points & Miles

๐Ÿ” Alaska ↔๏ธ Hawaiian Transfers (+ Amex → Hawaiian)!

It's so tough to accrue Alaska miles, so I speculatively transferred a lot of my Amex points last month and thankfully you can now make โ€‹free 1:1 mile transfersโ€‹ between Alaska Mileage Plan and HawaiianMiles. Finally, since Hawaiian is a transfer partner with Amex, you can now transfer Amex → Hawaiian → Alaska, which is amazing (but might not last)!

๐Ÿ’ณ New Welcome Offer: Up to 100k Bonus Points

You can now earn up to 100k bonus points on Aeroplan® Credit Card that lets you earn points in Aeroplan, which is Air Canada's loyalty program. It's one of my favorite ways to book flights, in fact, it's how we booked our flights to Iceland, where we are now. You can earn 75k bonus points after a $4k spend in 3 months and get an additional 25k after spending $20k in the first 12 months.

๐ŸŒŽ World's Best Points-Bookable Hotels in 2024

Have a bunch of points, but not sure where to redeem them? Here's a list of the โ€‹best 28 hotels in the world for 2024โ€‹ (based on Travel & Leisure's rankings) that are not just bookable with points, but also offer outsized value for rewards program members of Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt IHG, and LHW.

 

๐Ÿค‘ Latest Deals

๐Ÿ’ณ Lots of Great Card-Linked Offers

There were a ton of great card-linked offers when I looked this week, so I'm excited to share my top picks, with expiration dates in parentheses.

Please note that not every cardmember might see all offers, but if you want to automate the process of adding every offer, I highly recommend โ€‹CardPointers Proโ€‹ + you can get โ€‹30% off hereโ€‹!

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๐Ÿจ 20% Off Last Minute Marriott Stays

Marriott is offering a โ€‹20% off flash dealโ€‹ for bookings made by tomorrow for stays 9/30 - 11/5 (5-day advanced booking required). The 15-20% discount work at over 6,000 hotels and resorts around the world.

๐Ÿ’ฐ Points & Miles on Sale

I wouldn't speculatively buy any of these points, but if you already have a specific redemption in mind or are well-versed in these programs, these offers could be quite useful! Expiration dates are in parentheses:

๐Ÿจ Hyatt Double Points on International Stays

Starting on your second qualifying stay, you can earn 2X points (up to 20,000 total) at 320+ participating hotels in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific. Just register โ€‹hereโ€‹ before your stays (and by 11/4) and complete those stays between 10/7 and 12/20.

 

๐Ÿ•ต๏ธ Great Finds

๐Ÿค‘ Coast FIRE: A Guide to Semi-Retirement

If you want to keep digging into FI after listening to โ€‹this week's episodeโ€‹, Coast FIRE is something I've been really intrigued by. It's a new-ish concept in the FIRE movement that's about saving enough that it will grow to fund your retirement, so you don't have to keep saving and can spend a bit more of your income while "coasting" along. โ€‹This articleโ€‹ from Nick Maggiulliโ€‹ breaks down everything you need to know.

๐Ÿฅค Ninja CREAMi

My friend Sahil Bloom recommended the โ€‹Ninja CREAMiโ€‹ and we've been obsessed since getting it. 99% of the time we're using it to make protein ice cream (โ€‹link to the recipeโ€‹) in just a fews mins but we've also made fruit sorbet that the kids love (and the only ingredients are fruit).

 

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