The single best $250 credit card wallet for point collectors | Ep186 | 1-21-23
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Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 21 January 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
What's the strongest transferable points wallet you can muster with just a $250 budget for annual fees? Will Greg or Nick come up with the killer combo -- and can yours beat theirs?
00:00 Intro
00:59 Giant Mailbag
03:32 What crazy thing . . . did Capital One do this week?
09:03 Mattress running the numbers: A potentially lucrative Wyndham promotion https://frequentmiler.com/decent-wyndham-all-inclusive-promo-earn-5x-points-get-100-property-credit/
14:06 Main Event: The single-best $250 wallet for point collectors
18:15 Nick's gas station card
18:39 Greg's gas station card
19:12 Greg's grocery cards
20:20 Nick's grocery cards
22:10 Nick's dining card
22:43 Greg's dining card
23:45 Greg's travel card
24:10 Nick's travel card
25:23 Nick's phone and Internet
26:10 Greg's phone and Internet card
27:14 Greg's everywhere else card
28:00 Nick's everywhere else card
28:56 All of the extra cards
33:55 Question of the Week: What's the best card to pay for a $100K cruise? What about $150K in taxes?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:03.9 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:10.7 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.5 | What crazy thing did City this week. |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.8 | Ready for the main event? The main event. |
| 0:21.6 | Frequent Liler on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.6 | Today's main event, the single best $250 credit card wallet for point collectors. |
| 0:33.6 | That's a mouthful, but today's show is going to be really fun. I'm really looking forward to this. |
| 0:40.7 | This is going to be unlike how we usually do things. Nick and I each independently, about 15 minutes |
| 0:48.0 | before recording the show, came up with our list of cards that would go into a wallet where the |
| 0:53.9 | maximum annual fee is $250. |
| 0:57.0 | And we don't know what each other has in our wallets. We're going to be revealing the |
| 1:00.6 | cards sort of one by one. We'll get into the details of how the reveal is going to go when |
| 1:05.0 | we get to the main event. But it's going to be fun. So stick around for that section. |
| 1:10.4 | And first, of course, we have the giant mail bag. |
| 1:13.5 | Today's giant mail comes from Brett. And Brett had a piece of information for us. He said, |
| 1:20.9 | in the December Radisson America newsletter, it had the following paragraph. More places to use points in |
| 1:29.4 | 2023. The New Year promises new and exciting travel options for Radisson rewards America's |
| 1:35.0 | members. Watch for new opportunities to use your points for award nights at over 7,000 |
| 1:41.0 | choice hotel brands globally. Thank you for choosing us for your blah, blah, blah. |
| 1:46.3 | Okay, I'm not going to read the rest, but... |
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