👋 Hi Reader,

Hope your weekend is off to a great start, and Happy Women's Day to anyone celebrating! Here's a sneak peek of today's newsletter:

🎙Best AI tools, insurance planning for fires & more
💸 Earn 5x on insurance payments and tax prep
🧘‍♂️ Free year of Calm mediation app
💺 New Flying Blue Promo Rewards
🎁 5% off gift cards with U.S. Bank cards
🏨 Unrestricted free hotel night with new welcome offers
⚾ Redeem miles for exclusive MLB tickets
📱 Invite code for a free cell phone plan and more!

If you enjoyed reading, please feel free to forward this to someone who might too (and if that's you, make sure to subscribe here). Thank you!

Chris

🎙 Mailbag: AI Tools, Insurance Planning for Fires & More

My good friend Kevin Rose joined me for another Q&A episode where we talk everything from the best AI tools to takeaways from losing a home in the LA fires to the benefits of rope training and saunas. We also discuss strategies for optimizing home insurance, how to think about where to live, and answer more of your questions. If you want to share a question for a future episode, please share it here.

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🛫 Travel, Points & Miles

🏨 Free Night Anywhere with New Welcome Offers

You can currently earn a Free Night Reward, good at any category property in addition to big signup bonuses. The offer is available on this card (which we got last year), but it's also on this this no-fee card.

💸 5x in March on Insurance Payments and Tax Prep

A popular bank* is offering a surprise bonus of 5% cash back on insurance and tax preparation service payments made on two of their credit cards between 3/1 and 3/31. The bonus category is limited to $1,500 in spending, which includes the regular quarterly bonus categories (Q1 categories are grocery stores, fitness clubs, and hair, nails, and spa services). Make sure to register here to qualify.

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

💺 Flying Blue Promo Rewards for March 2025

Air France-KLM's Flying Blue program's March 2025 Promo Rewards is offering a 25% discount on economy award flights between Europe and Detroit, Mexico City, Seattle, Washington, Austin and Boston. There are also business-class options to Ottawa starting at 45k miles and to Panama City and San Jose (SJO) for 63,750 miles. Book before 3/31 for travel until 8/31.

🛏️ 15% Off Award Nights at New IHG Properties

IHG One Rewards is offering 15% off award nights at new and revamped properties, including the Iberostar properties in Aruba, Malaga, and Tunisia, and Noku Maldives. This offer is valid for stays through 3/31, 4/30, and 5/31, depending on the property.

🛍️ Up to 1k Bonus Points on Southwest Shopping Portal

You can earn up to 1,000 bonus Rapid Rewards points via the Southwest shopping portal until 3/17. Spend $100 to earn 500 or $300 to earn 1,000 bonus Rapid Rewards points.

👑 MGM Rewards Tier Status Match Challenge

MGM Rewards has brought back its Status Match Challenge. Until 7/31, you can get an instant match to MGM Gold or Platinum using a loyalty card from an eligible competitor (list here). Plus, you can extend the status beyond the initial 90 days if you complete the challenge requirements.

🤑 Latest Deals

🎁 5% Off Gift Cards with U.S. Bank Cards

Have a U.S. Bank debit/credit card? You can get a 5% discount when purchasing gift cards for shopping, travel, dining and entertainment on the U.S Bank gift card site. Thanks for sharing this Ford!

⚾ Redeem Capital One Miles for Exclusive MLB Tickets

Capital One cardholders can access exclusive field-level MLB tickets by redeeming only 5,000 miles each via the Capital One Entertainment portal. These tickets will be available for the next two months with limited availability (usually only 4 tickets per game), so it's a good idea to secure them ASAP.

⛷️ 2025-2026 Epic Passes on Sale!

After a successful ski trip with the kids this year, we're thinking seriously about getting an Epic Pass next year. They're now on sale for next season and offering 10 free buddy passes as an early bird deal. The competing Ikon Pass goes on sale next week on 3/12.

💳 Latest Card-Linked Offers

Card-linked offers are a great way to save on shopping you’re already doing and there are a bunch of great ones I've recently found, including getting a free year of the Calm Meditation app.

Calm Meditation App: 100% back (up to $69.99)
Prenuvo Full Body MRI: $600 off $2499+
Lifeforce Biomarker Testing: $300 of $599+
JetBlue: $25 off $250
IKEA: 10% off (up to $27)
Kroger: 10% off (up to $9)
Lululemon: $20 off $100+
Southwest Airlines: 10% off (up to $40)
Office Depot/Max: 5%-15% off
Vail Resorts: 10k Bonus Rewards points on $500
Big Sky Ski Resort: $50 off $250
Select gift cards: 10% off when you redeem Citi points

Note: Not every cardmember might see these offers, but if you want to automate them, try CardPointers Pro with 30% off here.

🕵️ Great Finds

📱 Invite Code for $0/mo Helium Mobile Plan (No CC)

Last month I shared how you can get a free “Zero Plan” (no credit card required) from Helium Mobile including 3GB of data, 300 texts and 100 mins of calls—but you had to join a waitlist. I finally got in and have a referral code to skip the waitlist: 5XNO54A. Note they do require location services turned on to get the free plan.

📺 Show Recommendation: Zero Day

I enjoyed this new Netflix conspiracy mini-series where Robert DeNiro is in charge of investigating a cyberattack in the US. It has mixed reviews from critics, but I love this genre and only being 6 episodes makes it an easy watch!

💬 Parting Thoughts

As always, thanks so much for reading! I’d love to hear your thoughts on today’s newsletter, and if you enjoyed it, please let me know why!