Best Posts Last Week: 5x Everywhere, Great Bank Bonuses, MS Reflection & Improvement

Last week I found a credit card that earns 5x points everywhere. Now before you get too excited, this card doesn’t always earn 5x everywhere. It only happens twice a year (all star weekend and NBA finals weeks), this could still be a good opportunity but we still aren’t exactly certain how much points are worth. In other credit card news you can still get 50,000 points with the Southwest premier personal card and it’s possible to get a $100 Amazon gift card for the Discover it.

For once there was finally a lot of new bank bonuses found last week. Unfortunately most weren’t considering, but there are two in particular that I’d like to highlight (so good in fact I added them to our best bank bonus list). The first one is open basically nationwide and it’s a $175 saving account bonus with Chase. The best thing about this bonus is that the $15,000 deposit requirement does not need to be kept in the account, usually it has to be kept in there for at least 90 days. The other bonus is a $300 checking promo with Regions bank, it’s only available in some cities but the requirements are easy to meet and $300 is nothing to sneeze at.

The other big news on the blog last week was manufactured spending, I’ve been trying to find a balance in what to share and not share and I’m (one of) the first to admit that we’ve gotten that balance wrong. I’ve been encouraging discussion in this post and other bloggers have been weighing in as well. I’ll be announcing our plans in regards to this at some point in the future, but for now almost all MS stuff will be shared in our newsletter so subscribe if you haven’t already.