In a recent post, Is Travel Hacking for You?, I talked about the three types of travel hackers - beginner, intermediate, and advanced. In this post, I’m talking to those of you who identified as beginner travel hackers. Here’s how to pick your strategy and get started today!

One of my goals for 2022 is to be more organized and intentional with my credit cards and points. This will look like:

1. Maximizing the value of all my cards, and canceling or downgrading the cards that no longer provide value.

2. Planning my travel as far ahead of time as possible, and only signing up for new cards that are working towards a specific goal.

As I mentioned in a previous blog post, I currently have 217,000 Amex Membership Rewards (MR) points. These points were the first MR that I’ve earned, so I really need to figure out what to do with these points!

As 2021 wraps up, I am planning a move into a new apartment, preparing our home for a new baby, and doing some holiday shopping. This means you can expect a lot more content about how to maximize spending and a little bit less travel reviews over here as we head into winter.