Author: Kyle Burbank
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Travel Tuesday: Waldorf Astoria Las Vegas Hotel Review
With international travel still off the table, a few weeks ago, my wife and I decided to pay a return visit to Las Vegas, Nevada. This time around, we decided to try something a bit different and stay at a hotel that’s not connected to a casino: The Waldorf Astoria Las Vegas. Booking through the…
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Select American Express Cardholders Can Now Get a Free Year of Uber Eats Pass
I swear that I don’t go into each week planning to write so much about credit cards — but there’s a lot going on right now. The latest development is that American Express and Uber have announced a deepening of their existing partnership. The result? New perks for Amex Platinum, Green, and especially Gold card…
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The Top 3 Banking Accounts Options I’m Currently Keeping My Cash In
As I’ve bemoaned several times on this site before, I have too many bank accounts. That’s because, when I review these products for Dyer News, I like to get hands on and really test them out for myself — not to mention keep up with the numerous updates. Truth be told, I actually don’t mind…
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2 Current Increased Credit Card Offers Worth Considering
Earlier this year, it was pretty unclear what the future would hold for rewards credit cards. While it seemed as though issuers might start cutting back, things turned around as they, instead, added new features to help cardholders get more value out of “the new normal.” Now, things are ramping back up with new products,…
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Economic Inequality as Explained by Vegas Table Games
A mere few weeks after my road trip to reopened Las Vegas, I found myself back in Sin City just a couple of days ago. This time around, I actually did a bit of playing — my second-ever time hitting the table games — and, surprisingly, managed to come out ahead. However, it was while…
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In the Interest of Transparency: My Personal Finances and Approach to Money
When I first started writing about personal finance, it’s safe to say that I didn’t really know what I was doing. That’s why I mostly took the approach of sharing what I was learning in regards to finance as well as sharing experiences I had already acquired. Additionally, I’ve often strived to give context for…
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The Venmo Credit Card is Here and It’s Not So Bad
Nearly a year ago, Venmo announced plans to release a credit card in partnership with Synchrony. Like most people (presumably), I completely forgot about this ambition until it became a reality earlier this week. At long last, the Venmo Credit Card is here — or nearly here as applications are currently only being offered to…
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Travel Tuesday: What to Know About Amex’s Fine Hotels + Resorts Program
Just a couple of weeks before the pandemic shut down much of the United States to travel, I wrote about my experience booking a room in Chicago using American Express’s Hotel Collection. At the time, I assumed that this offering was pretty similar to the fancier-sounding Fine Hotels + Resorts program, with the latter merely…
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A Surprising Place to Potentially Exchange Leftover Foreign Currency
Last week, for my Travel Tuesday installment, I wrote about a few different options you have when it comes to obtaining foreign currency for traveling. Naturally, each of these approaches had its own set of pros and cons. For example, buying foreign funds ahead of time or pulling out money from an ATM while you’re…
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Pros and Cons of Using an iPad for Productivity
A few months ago, during a bout of the quarantine blues, I began watching a lot of videos about the iPad. Previously, while I thought such a device might be fun, I never really saw much of a need for it. That was until I started to see more people talking about the enhanced keyboard…
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More Tidying Projects We’ve Recently Tackled
Just a couple of weeks ago, I shared some of the ways my wife and I were working to tidy up our apartment, get rid of stuff, and perhaps even try on minimalism for style. Well, following a short break in progress due to our Vegas trip, we were back at it this week, taking…
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Travel Tuesday: 4 Ways to Obtain and Use Foreign Currency
At the time that I write this, international travel is still a no-go for us Americans. Despite this, I haven’t stopped thinking about my (hopeful) upcoming travels nor halted my reflections back on my past adventures. Among the aspects I’ve been considering lately is how my M.O. while traveling has evolved over the years —…
