Mailbag #9: Best Two-Card Combos, Travel Hacks, Finance Apps, Health Hacks and More

All the Hacks with Chris Hutchins

Chris Hutchins

Business, Education, Investing, Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Self-improvement

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

#120: Host Chris Hutchins shares a ton of amazing hacks, questions and wins from listeners. He covers a range of topics including the best two credit card combos, United Airlines’s recent points devaluation, ways to maximize travel points and monitor hotel price drops. Chris also draws from his personal experiences to share travel hacks learned from recent trips to New York and Cabo, along with other valuable hacks related to health, personal finance, cell phones, and more. Link to Full Show Notes: https://allthehacks.com/mailbag-9 Partner Deals Eight Sleep: $150 off the Eight Sleep Pod to cool, heat, track, & sleep better Vuori: 20% off the most comfortable performance apparel I've ever worn Daffy: Free $25 to give to the charity of your choice DeleteMe: 20% off removing your personal info from the web Shopify: Sign up for a $1/month trial period Resources Mentioned All the Hacks Membership ATH Episodes: #91: Die With Zero: Net Fulfillment Over Net Worth With Bill Perkins #113: Unlocking the Power of Plastic: Maximizing Your Hidden Credit Card Benefits #117: Navigating a High Rate Market: Buying a Home, Preparing for a Recession and Where to Put Cash With Ben Carlson Point.me (first month for $1 with code HACKS) United MileagePlus Devaluation AI Tools For Writing Letters To Airlines: Notion AI | ChatGPT How To Use Wyndham Points To Book a Vacasa Chris’s In-Laws’ Vacasa In Belize APEC Business Travel Card Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card: 60K Welcome Bonus American Express® Green Card: 60K Welcome Bonus Marco’s Post on Amex No Lifetime Language Sign Ups: American Express® Business Gold Card (Marco’s Referral) The Business Platinum Card® from American Express (NLL) The American Express® Business Gold Card (NLL) Apps To Use Before Applying For Credit Cards With Low Credit: Credit Karma App CardMatch Tool American Express 'Apply with confidence' tool Guide To CLEAR Discounts Hotel Price Drop Monitoring Tools: Awayz (50% Off With A Free 3 Day Trial for All The Hacks Listeners here) Pruvo Hotel Slash Health Hacks: InsideTracker All Of Us - NIH PATHFINDER 2 Study GRAIL - Galleri Test Wealthfront products: Cash Account Automated Bond Portfolio ($5,000 managed free with my referral link) Apps To Track Personal Spending & Budgeting: Rocket Money | Copilot Money | Tiller Apps To Track Net-worth, Budgeting & Forecasting: Wealthfront App | Kubera Second Hand Phones: Swappa Number Porting: NumberBarn | Google Voice Full Show Notes (02:30) Listener Wins (04:56) United Airlines Devaluation (07:36) Lessons From Chris's New York Trip (10:06) Tips For Booking And Cancelling Flights From Chris's Cabo Trip (12:16) Booking Vacasa's Through Wyndham Rewards (12:49) Skipping The Line With The APEC Business Travel Card [Hack] (17:27) Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card 60K Bonus Bump Up to 80K [Hack] (18:23) American Express® Green Card (21:19) Best Two-Card Combos (26:55) Limits on Capital One Cards [Question] (27:52) Citi's Language on Legal Action for Bonus Churning [Question] (29:31) American Express NLL Links [Hack] (30:57) Credit Card Approvals With Low Credit [Question] (34:43) The Apple Credit Card [Question] (35:56) Best Uses Of Travel Credits [Question] (37:59) Airport Spa Benefits [Correction] (38:33) Credits and Deals for CLEAR [Hack] (39:34) Hotel Upgrade Tips [Hack] (41:49) Travel Hacks from Canada [Hack] (42:23) Resort Fees & Taxes When Redeeming Points For A Hotel [Question] (44:23) Hotel Price Drop Monitoring Tools [Question] (47:55) Full Refund For Broken Stroller On A Flight [Hack] (48:43) International Rental Car Coverage [Hack] (50:54) Health Hacks [Hack] (53:36) Clipping Deals With Grocery Store Apps [Hack] (54:21) Wealthfront Cash & Automated Bond Portfolio [Hack] (55:43) Apps To Track Personal Spending & Budgeting [Question] (57:24) Buying Second Hand Phones & Number Porting [Hack]

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to another episode of All the Hacks, a show about upgrading your
0:05.4	life, money, and travel.
0:07.2	I'm Chris Hutchins, and I'm so excited you're here today for another Mailbag episode.
0:11.7	Yet again, this episode is packed with a ton of amazing hacks, questions, and wins you've
0:16.9	all sent in.
0:17.9	There's a ton of stuff related to travel hacks, points, and miles, but I'm also going
0:22.2	to share my take on United's massive devaluation, what that means for you, MX's increased
0:27.5	bonus on the green card.
0:29.2	I'll share some of my top two card combos, talk about some major travel hacks I learned
0:33.9	from personal experience on my past two trips, and I'll cover a few other great hacks related
0:39.5	to health, money, cell phones, and more.
0:42.6	So thank you all so much for sending in such great hacks, deals, wins, questions.
0:47.3	I get amazing feedback from you all about how much you love hearing from the broader
0:52.0	all the hacks community through these episodes.
0:54.4	So please keep those coming because there is another Mailbag episode coming soon, but
0:59.2	there is a lot to cover today, so let's jump in right after this.
1:04.5	If you've been listening to this podcast for a while, you know that I'm a huge fan of
1:08.0	Daffy, a fast growing modern platform and app for charitable giving that I am so excited
1:12.8	to partner with for this episode.
1:15.0	Daffy allows you to give to any charity across the US with just a few taps, but it's
1:19.5	so much more than that because they do it all by helping you set up a donor advised fund
1:24.1	or Daff, which is a tax-advanced account that lets you contribute cash, stocks, or crypto
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