Club Carlson Prizes!
$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 new credit cards (see "Club Carlson rocks our world… Again"...
Million Mile Madness: Easy points
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 month. Throughout March, I'm doing everything I can to earn...
Million Mile Madness: Credit scores and pulls
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. Throughout March, I'm doing everything I can to earn as...
Bluebird soars higher
While Bluebird continues to be one of the best tools available for collecting points and miles (see "Bluebird takes flight and changes the game"), it is just now living up to its promise of...
Tips for selling on Amazon
When shopping portals run big promotions, it sometimes pays to buy things just for the shopping portal points. For example, early last year, the British Airways shopping portal briefly offered 36 points per dollar...
Million Mile Madness: Bumps in the road
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 one month. Throughout March, I'm doing everything I can to...
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...
