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Million Mile Madness: Success!!!!!

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1,000,546 points earned!  Background: Million Mile Madness is the fun and foolish quest to earn a million points in one month. Throughout March,...

Club Carlson Prizes!

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$500 and elite status could be yours...  If you read Frequent Miler often, then you know that I'm a big fan of Club Carlson's...

Million Mile Madness: Easy points

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955,000 points earned. 45,000 left to go. Background: Million Mile Madness is the fun and foolish quest to earn a million points in one...

Million Mile Madness: Credit scores and pulls

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927,000 points earned. 73,000 left to go. Background: Million Mile Madness is the fun and foolish quest to earn a million points in one month....

Bluebird soars higher

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While Bluebird continues to be one of the best tools available for collecting points and miles (see "Bluebird takes flight and changes the game"),...

Tips for selling on Amazon

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When shopping portals run big promotions, it sometimes pays to buy things just for the shopping portal points.  For example, early last year, the...

Million Mile Madness: Bumps in the road

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860,000 points earned. 140,000 left to go. Background: Million Mile Madness is the fun painful and foolish quest to earn a million points in...

What is the best tool for tracking points and miles?

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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...

Buying points intentionally through credit card spend

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Yesterday I detailed how people (usually unknowingly) buy points whenever they choose to earn points instead of saving money (see "Buying points, unwittingly").  That...

Buying points, unwittingly

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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Today is March 14th!  In the United States, we refer to this as Pi Day because of the way we write dates.  Most people...

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