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9. Learn to Hack Your Credit Card Points System 

If you get good at hacking reward cards, you can get free flights and hotel rooms for the rest of your life. All it takes is some clever spending.

For example, at the time this post was written, American Express is offering a signup bonus of 60,000 points when you are approved for their Platinum Delta Skymiles credit card after spending $2,000 on the card over the course of three months. That sounds like a lot of money, but a lot of apartment complexes accept credit cards to pay rent. So it’s actually very easy to pay $2,000 in three months, and pay off the balance in full right way. Or, you can pay for other essentials like groceries, car insurance, gas, etc. The key is to only make purchases on the card that you are already making, anyway, so you don’t overspend. The value of points changes depending on the airline, but in this example, 60,000 miles can pay for an $800 flight booking through American Airlines, or you can stretch its value even more by transferring the points to competing airlines.