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.
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...
$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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Million Mile Madness: The big churn story
Update: Club Carlson business card was approved!
438,000 525,000 points earned. 562,000 475,000 left to go.
Background: Million Mile Madness is the fun and foolish quest...
TODAY ONLY: Free spend & points from Staples
This deal is good today only 3/3/2013 Staples has two new FAR (Free after Rebate) software downloads today only thanks to two overlapping...
