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Toni Perkins-Southam

Freelance Writer

Toni Perkins-Southam joined the AwardWallet team in 2017 as a moderator for AwardTravel 101, the original Facebook points and miles community, before later joining the AwardWallet Blog team as a freelance writer.

 

She is an award travel enthusiast who has been leveraging credit card rewards to travel around the world, for nearly free, with her husband and their four young children. Toni and her kids have spent the last several summers living in Europe, Central and South America and have encountered countless adventures throughout their travels.

 

Her passion is to inspire other big families by showing and teaching them that traveling with kids is not only logistically possible, but financially feasible for even the smallest of budgets.

Latest Posts

U.S. Bank Altitude® Connect Visa Signature® Card Review: Quality Earnings and an Attainable Bonus

The U.S. Bank Altitude® Connect Visa Signature® Card is a user-friendly option that comes with a generous welcome offer along with practical everyday spending categories. Travel purchases and fuel purchases — which include gas stations and electric vehicle charging — earn 4x points, and grocery purchases get 2x back. Is this the right card for you? Read our Altitude Connect review to find out more.

Stack the Savings to Earn up to 3,900 AA Miles, Save up to $145 on Blue Apron Purchase of Just $50

Right now, new Blue Apron subscribers can stack offers to earn up to 3,900 American Airlines miles plus $120 off and $25 cash back a purchase of just $50. But, you'll need to act by March 14 to take advantage of all of these offers. Here are all of the points, miles, and cashback offers and how you can stack them to save money on food delivery while building up your award miles.

Select Chase Cards Now Offer NEXUS Membership Fee Reimbursement

If your Chase credit card comes with a Global Entry/TSA PreCheck reimbursement benefit, you may have a new use. Chase recently, but quietly, added a new option to several of its cards: an application fee credit for the Trusted Traveler Program called NEXUS. But what is this program, and how do you use this benefit? You might be surprised to learn that NEXUS is a better option than Global Entry or TSA PreCheck.