Greg The Frequent Miler
Greg is the owner, founder, and primary author of the Frequent Miler. He earns millions of points and miles each year, mostly without flying, and dedicates this blog to teaching others how to do the same.
What is the best tool for tracking points and miles?
How do you keep track of all of your points and miles? For the past few years I've happily used AwardWallet, which is available both as a web site and a smartphone app. But...
Buying points intentionally through credit card spend
Yesterday I detailed how people (usually unknowingly) buy points whenever they choose to earn points instead of saving money (see "Buying points, unwittingly"). That post was focused primarily on the types of everyday buying...
Buying points, unwittingly
When you earn miles & points from credit cards, shopping portals, and the like, the points seem to be free, but they're not. In most cases, you could have chosen to earn or save...
$200 Visa cards. Are they worth it?
Now that Office Depot no longer sells $500 loadable Visa or Amex cards (at least, for now), a number of people have asked me about $200 Visa cards. All three of the big office...
Million Mile Madness: Pending Success
772,000 points earned. 228,000 left to go. Background: Million Mile Madness is the fun and foolish quest to earn a million points in one month. Throughout March, I'm doing everything I can to earn...
Million Mile Madness: A setback from Sears
746,000 points earned. 254,000 left to go. Background: Million Mile Madness is the fun and foolish quest to earn a million points in one month. Throughout March, I'm doing everything I can to earn...
Pi Day! Pie for 3.14% cash or 3.14X
Today is March 14th! In the United States, we refer to this as Pi Day because of the way we write dates. Most people in the world write the date as Day/Month/Year. That makes...
Million Mile Madness: Banking on Lowe’s
706,000 points earned. 294,000 left to go. Background: Million Mile Madness is the fun and foolish quest to earn a million points in one month. Throughout March, I'm doing everything I can to earn...
Amex gift card 2% rebate not today
Quick update: In the recent post "Gift Card Churning Deals" I said that TopCashBack would offer 2% back for American Express Gift Cards bought today (March 12th). It turns out that they are experiencing...
The new king of the Ultimate Rewards Mall
In order to maximize my point earnings this month for Million Mile Madness, I downgraded my Chase Sapphire Preferred card to the Chase Freedom card. This way, I could take advantage of the Freedom...
Million Mile Madness: buying, selling Kohl’s
Background: Million Mile Madness is the fun and foolish quest to earn a million points in one month. Throughout March, I’m doing everything I can to earn as many points as I can while...
Million Mile Madness: My life as a point grabber
576,000 points earned. 424,000 left to go.
Background: Million Mile Madness is the fun and foolish quest to earn a million points in one month. Throughout March, I’m doing everything I can to earn as...
Million Mile Madness: 68000 miles per hour, decelerating rapidly
547,000 points earned. 453,000 left to go. Background: Million Mile Madness is the fun and foolish quest to earn a million points in one month. Throughout March, I’m doing everything I can to earn...
Gift Card Churning Deals
Lately I've written quite a bit about credit card churning (see, for example, "Million Mile Madness: The big churn story"). Now that I have 10 new credit cards coming my way, its time to...
