**This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of American Express. All opinions are my own. Let’s be realistic, summer is the best season of the year right? The weather is excellent and everyone just seems happier at this time of the year. However, summer can be expensive! It’s the season for vacations, [...]
**This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Capital One®. All opinions are my own. Knowing and understanding our credit score is one of the key steps in building a healthy relationship with our finances. Generally speaking, the higher the number, the better we’re doing, but there are many variables involved. So [...]
So a funny thing happened a little while back, I forgot to pay my credit card bill. It’s only funny because I’m constantly preaching about how we need to pay our credit card bills on time and in full, yet somehow I forgot. Okay, some people call it irony, but ignoring your bills is really [...]
One of the most annoying things about credit cards is the fact that most of them charge an additional fee of 2.5% when we make a purchase in a foreign currency. You'd be forgiven if you didn't know about this since it's not widely advertised, but the fee is rolled right into the exchange making it [...]
If you’re looking to earn 25,000 Aeroplan Miles fast, then signing up for the American Express Gold Rewards card is a must. After spending $1,500 in the first three months of having the card, you’re instantly given 25,000 American Express Member Rewards (Although it can take up to 10 weeks for these points to post [...]
77 per cent of millennials prefer to have all their financial products and credit cards with their main bank. This is not a joke, that data comes from a recent survey from LowestRates.ca. I remember reading the headline last week on Twitter in the morning and I almost choked on my tea. The millennials I [...]
Churning credit cards in Canada has become a popular thing as of late. Wait, what does churning credit cards mean? To simply put it, it's when you sign up for credit cards with large signup bonuses such as travel miles or member rewards and then canceling them after obtaining those bonuses. It seems odd that [...]
When it comes to travel rewards credit cards in Canada, American Express is the leader. I’ve already featured the Amex Gold and Amex Platinum where you can earn 25,000 and 60,000 Aeroplan points, but now it’s time to focus on the Starwood Preferred Guest credit card from American Express. As you’ve probably figured out by [...]
For the longest time I’ve been avoiding an American Express Platinum Canada review because, well, because I never had the card. The card comes with a yearly fee of $699 which cannot be waived, so I never really looked into the details. What a mistake, even with the insane fee, there’s a lot of value [...]
I recently headed down to Orlando where I got to relive my childhood with my brother. We saw six theme parks in three days and had an absolute blast. That is until I saw my credit card bill. No, I didn’t overspend. I had budgeted properly for my ground expenses so there were no surprises [...]
