{"id":13739,"date":"2026-05-25T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=13739"},"modified":"2026-05-24T22:27:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T04:27:53","slug":"big-holidays-and-you-the-two-ways-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/big-holidays-and-you-the-two-ways-to-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Holidays and You: The Two Ways to Play"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Memorial Day, like Labor Day, Mother&#8217;s Day, Christmas, National Bubble Bath Day, and a few other favorites, typically presents a great opportunity for one-off manufactured spend and travel hacking deals. We&#8217;ll see opportunities like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Gift cards for sale under spot resale prices<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Travel packages priced at relative minima<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Extra inventory for award redemptions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Old apple products for really cheap<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Broadly speaking, if you play the game today, you&#8217;ve got two choices:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Stick with what you know and can earn on any other day<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Follow slickdeals, deal blogs, chatrooms, reselling slacks, and everything else to find great quick hits like those mentioned above<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Either works obviously, but when you&#8217;ve built a war chest of manufactured spend volume, you&#8217;re probably going to earn more by sticking with what you know then you&#8217;ll earn or save by staying in front of a computer looking for today&#8217;s deals all day. So, unless you&#8217;re in this for the chase and the thrill of the new deal, consider spending your time today either doing what you normally do or learning more about how to build your war chest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or, we can summarize this post simply as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Try and get the expected value of what you know bigger than the expected value of today&#8217;s quick hits. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy Monday friends!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/apple-economy-is-brutal-v0-a36p8fncs07g1.jpeg-768x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13742\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/apple-economy-is-brutal-v0-a36p8fncs07g1.jpeg-768x1024.webp 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/apple-economy-is-brutal-v0-a36p8fncs07g1.jpeg-225x300.webp 225w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/apple-economy-is-brutal-v0-a36p8fncs07g1.jpeg.webp 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center alignwide wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Not all $15 apples are a good deal, even today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memorial Day, like Labor Day, Mother&#8217;s Day, Christmas, National Bubble Bath Day, and a few other favorites, typically presents a great opportunity for one-off manufactured<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13739"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13744,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13739\/revisions\/13744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}