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Today has been a particularly challenging day in the churning and MS world, so I thought I’d write up a quick mini post to comment on it.  It’s no secret that there’s been a difficult conversation brewing for awhile now about how best to thread the needle between being open and keeping things alive. Everybody…

Note for the youngins: I don’t actually love plays dying, go watch this old classic February 1 brought some bad news in the churning world. While it’s a pretty big deal that affects a lot of us, I think we can peg this as one last “screw you” provided by 2025, since it was announced…

Pictured: Enjoying a lovely sunset while literally chasing cetaceans One of the best things about churning and MS is the ability to do whatever you want, whenever you want for travel. Earning a ton of points and miles means that you can fulfill your travel wishes, regardless of whether that means relaxed Wyndhams and short…

I’ve used a lot of real estate on the blog to talk about trust and how it relates to profits in the MS game. Today, I want to go a step further into the importance of trust and community. If it wasn’t already, trust is now a currency in and of itself in the hobby…

Pictured: the kind of direct dopamine hit that Zoomers can only dream of I think my boredom of writing about Bilt is only matched by your boredom of reading about it, so let’s do something more fun for a Friday before many of us prepare to bunker down for a stormy weekend. Despite being somewhere…

Pictured: Charles de Gaulle when he was a child, aka the current adult height of butterboy Editor’s note: Thanks to my friend, and one of the funniest churners I know, the vertically challenged butterboy, for today’s guest post. Only he could look at 20th-century French history and see a metaphor for churning/MS. Enjoy the post!…