Like i said in my December recap, early January has been pretty slow. The reason for that is because of the lack of portal bonus points. Seems like Sears raised their payout for XMAS, but now that it’s over, they’ve slowed it down, which I’m not sure if it makes sense. Wouldn’t you want higher […]
One of my good friends is getting married in Hawaii next year, and instead of buying them items off their registry, I decided to use my miles & points expertise to buy them 2 first class tickets to Hawaii as their wedding gift. I checked Alaska’s web site and sure enough, it costs 40K Alaska […]
Update – as of January 11, 2016, NW Buxx cards have changed the load limits on the card. See FM’s post for full details. I’ve stopped using the cards, but it might still be usable for you. I have had my USBank Buxx Visa prepaid debit cards for years now. It used to be a […]
So I got my wife’s AMEX Business Platinum in on Friday. Mine should arrive on Monday I hope. That means I need to spend $20K in the next 3 months. I’ll walk you guys through the best way to do this and how I plan on doing this. I know my regular monthly spend isn’t […]
Since I just started this blog and the only readers so far are my friends, I wanted to go over with them the levels of participation in this ‘miles and points’ game. The Credit Card Only users This is the level most people start out with. It’s where I started out and stayed for 10 […]