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👋 Hi Reader,

Happy Saturday! Here’s a quick preview of today’s newsletter:

• 🚨 Ending soon: $1,000+ welcome bonus
• 🤑 Extra 2% on BoA cards on 11/7
• 💸 Kudos: Earn up to 25% cash back + $20
• 📝 How to pay less taxes in 2024
• 💰 10 lessons on wealth, happiness, and family
• 🥘 Pro cooking tips from a chef and more!

I really hope you enjoy reading and please forward this to someone who might enjoy it too! (And if that's you, make sure to subscribe here so you don't miss out on amazing deals in the future).

Thanks so much!

Chris

💰 10 Lessons on Wealth, Happiness, and Family

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I recently attended a retreat for high-net-worth individuals hosted by Long Angle and learned so much about how money shapes our decisions—impacting everything from your mindset and family choices to overall happiness. Here are my top 10 takeaways!

🛫 Travel, Points & Miles

🚨 Offer Ending Soon: $1,000+ Welcome Bonus

A few weeks ago, I mentioned that a popular travel card* is offering a welcome bonus of $1,000+ in travel credit, but this generous offer is ending soon. It’s one of my favorite travel cards due to its low annual fee and great earning rates on travel and dining.

For compliance reasons, we can’t include names of all cards/banks.

🤑 Extra 2% on BoA Cards on 11/7

The More Rewards Day promo gives Bank of America credit cardholders an extra 2% back on the first $2,500 of spend on 11/7 (so $50 in value). If you have Platinum Honors, this will stack for a total reward of 4.625% - 5.5% back on many BoA cards.

🛫 New US Airline Refund Rules

As of 10/28, the Department of Transportation’s new airline refund rules kick in, requiring automatic refunds for flights canceled or delayed over three hours domestically (and six hours internationally). Also, you're now eligible for refunds if checked bags are significantly delayed or if you pay for services like Wi-Fi or seat selection but don't receive them.

🤝 More Airlines Eligible for JetBlue Status Match

In August, JetBlue launched a status match program for elite members of American, Alaska, Delta, and United, and is now extending it to Southwest, Spirit, and Frontier elites. You can match your current status to Mosaic 1 or 2, with opportunities to extend or upgrade by earning "tiles" (JetBlue's elite status units). Keep in mind that if you use this offer, you won’t be eligible for another status match for 24 months.

🤑 Latest Deals

💸 Kudos: Earn Up To 25% Cash Back + $20

Kudos is an app/browser extension that boosts your credit card rewards and is offering up to 25% back at stores like Expedia, Stubhub and Adidas through 11/30. The main catch is that they're offering a multiplier on your existing credit card earning, so there's a bit more nuance on how it works over a traditional cashback portal, but I'm trying to dig in more, because I *think* there might be an opportunity to earn more. Here's my referral link (or code CHRISHUTCHINS) for a $20 bonus.

🎁 $500 Southwest Gift Cards for $429.99 (14% Off)

Until 11/4, you can get $500 Southwest gift cards (that never expire) for $429.99 at Costco or Sam’s Club. This price happens somewhat regularly, but if you fly Southwest at all, it's a great deal. This is 20% less than the regular discount and there's a limit of 5 per member (but if you have a membership at both stores, you could pick up more!) Plus, if you don’t have a Costco membership, Groupon is offering a $45 digital Costco gift card with new memberships until 12/22.

🚗 New Lyft x DoorDash Perks

Lyft and DoorDash have teamed up to offer perks where DashPass members get 5% off on-demand Lyft rides, 10% off scheduled airport rides (up to 4/month), and 2 free Priority Pickup upgrades. New Lyft users can enjoy a 3-month free DashPass trial. Additionally, if you link accounts by 12/31, you can get 50% off up to 4 scheduled airport rides (up to $25 each) and 50% off one DoorDash order (up to $10).

P.S. You can get a free DashPass with these popular credit cards​.

🧾 Deal Update: 50% Off Kick Bookkeeping

A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I migrated from Quickbooks to Kick, an awesome AI-driven bookkeeping software that I'm really enjoying. Well, I met the Kick founder at FinCon last week and was able to get a 50% discount for all subscribers (e.g. you!).

🕵️ Great Finds

📝 How to Pay Less Taxes in 2024

With tax season around the corner, Ankur Nagpal (Founder of Carry), hosted this free workshop to help professionals and high W-2 earners pay less taxes in 2024. I actually had Ankur on the podcast to talk tax-savings in Ep #147. Also, look out for a new episode on taxes next week!

P.S. If you want to sign up for Carry, my link is here.

🥘 A Chef's Restaurant Tricks for Home Cooking

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I loved this video from Joshua Weissman on cooking tips​ he learned from restaurants. If you want even more, check out Ep #122 with David Chang, where he shared so many tips for cooking at home.

📺 Show Recommendation: Shrinking

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I'm not sure what category to put Apple TV+'s Shrinking into, but I've really been enjoying it. It's a comedy where Jason Segel and Harrison Ford play therapists and coworkers. It's free on Apple TV+.

💬 Parting Thoughts

As always, thanks so much for reading! Reminder that you can still submit any questions here for my upcoming Q&A episode through the end of the week. Also, I’d love to hear your thoughts on today’s newsletter, so if you liked it, please let me know why!

Chris