This blog was meant to follow all the miles and points I earn throughout the year. I was planning on doing a weekly update, but that may be too much. So I’ll stick to a bi-monthly format (or is it called bi-weekly); whichever is every 2 weeks. Early January has been slow thus far; the main reason for that is because I bought so many AMEX gift cards in December that now I have to use them all up. So before I update my January points so far, let’s recap December’s points.
Tracking Sheet
When I built this site, I also knew I would need a more robust tracking spreadsheet. I also decided to use Google Sheets because I wanted to access this on my work PC and also on my laptop and desktop at home. I then created this Google form that feeds the spreadsheet. Here’s a screenshot:
There’s more at the bottom, but now that it’s been a month, I feel that it’s 99% complete. So, here are my results from December 17 to December 31.
| AA | 15,199 |
| Alaska | 1,500 |
| Discover | $1,469 |
| Southwest | 33,325 |
| Virgin America | 90,712 |
| Grand Total | 142,205 |
Here’s December 1 to December 16 (I had a different spreadsheet at the time):
| Alaska | 8,912 |
| Discover | $111.48 |
| FL United | 52,877 |
| Savingstar | $12.20 |
| Grand Total | 61,912 |
Most of the AA, Alaska, United, and Southwest came from Sears. Discover 10% was a mix of Kohl’s and Sears. Virgin America was 95% AMEX gift cards at 2X. Is this good or bad? I think if you take out the 90K Virgin America, I gained about 100K points from Sears. That’s definitely on the high side, and I’m nowhere near that this month since there have been no major bonuses for Sears. Btw, I’m not trying to brag or flaunt; I’m just giving you an example of how many points you could earn from shopping portals and reselling.