Ok, so like I said before, my main points earning strategy is earning bonus points through the Chase Ultimate rewards Mall. There are a bunch of online retailers there. The number of bonus points per dollar varies by retailer and those numbers change frequently. Most offers are between 1 and 3 bonus points. However, sometimes retailers offer gobs of points to shop their site. Today Magazine.com was one of those sites. They are offering a whopping 40 bonus points per dollar spent. 40 POINTS!!! I can't just pass that up, so I bought a subcription. I happen to be a fan of those gossip magazines at the check out and regularly spend $3+ a shopping trip to find out all sorts of pointless info on people who really shouldn't matter to me at all. My subscription cost $33 and my purchase will give me 33 regular points plus 1320 bonus points. That's a big 1353 points for a $33 spend! No too shabby!
I also snagged another 20 Hawaiian miles with the tool bar. I spent 24 at a restaurant. Did I mention that you get double miles with the Sapphire card at restaurants, so that is 48 points. Plus I spent I spent another 25 out and about.
Grand total for the day....... 1446.
Not to bad.
I don't do affiliate links (yet!). This is a link to find the Chase Sapphire card. The link takes you to FrugalTravelGuy.com and the offer is all over his site. He's my points hero and he'll make a few bucks if you sign up through his site. In the past three years, I have learned enough from him to earn 16 free airline tickets. Really, he's a free travel ROCK STAR! You should definitely be reading him if you want to learn to fly free.
Monday, January 2, 2012
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Hawaii or Bust!
I'm a bit of a travel freak. Ok, so most of the time I just dream about it. However, over the past few years I've learned a trick or two. I have discovered how to fly free and stay cheap. I mostly go to Florida. I have a weakness for a certain mouse. We were there two years ago and are headed back in May. Knowing how to fly free really makes traveling with a family of five affordable.
Now I have my mind set on a new adventure. I want to take my family to Hawaii. I live in New England and the avarage plane ticket is about $1000. I am going to need to use every trick in the book to earn enough miles to fly free for this one.
I figure I need to earn 250,000 miles to make the trip. I plan to travel by February of 2015. I need to have the miles in place about one year in advance, so I basically have two years to earn the miles. My goal is 300 miles per day. I basically don't fly (well not flights I pay for, anyway), so I'll have to earn my miles in other ways.
Today I earned 890.
This was through my normal shopping at Target and lunch out. I put all my purchases on my points earning credit card. I also bought a subscription to Goals on Track (much more on that in another post). My significant purchase was a $90 textbook from Barnes and Noble. I have a credit card that earns Chase Ultimate Rewards. I went through the Ultimate rewards portal to Barnes and Noble and earned 7 bonus points per dollar spent on top of the point per dollar I earned for using my chase card. That purchase will give me a sweet 728 points! SWEET! I also have a toolbar from Hawaiian Airlines that gives me points for searches and that racked me up another 20 points.
I'm going to share every trick with you, so keep coming back!
Now I have my mind set on a new adventure. I want to take my family to Hawaii. I live in New England and the avarage plane ticket is about $1000. I am going to need to use every trick in the book to earn enough miles to fly free for this one.
I figure I need to earn 250,000 miles to make the trip. I plan to travel by February of 2015. I need to have the miles in place about one year in advance, so I basically have two years to earn the miles. My goal is 300 miles per day. I basically don't fly (well not flights I pay for, anyway), so I'll have to earn my miles in other ways.
Today I earned 890.
This was through my normal shopping at Target and lunch out. I put all my purchases on my points earning credit card. I also bought a subscription to Goals on Track (much more on that in another post). My significant purchase was a $90 textbook from Barnes and Noble. I have a credit card that earns Chase Ultimate Rewards. I went through the Ultimate rewards portal to Barnes and Noble and earned 7 bonus points per dollar spent on top of the point per dollar I earned for using my chase card. That purchase will give me a sweet 728 points! SWEET! I also have a toolbar from Hawaiian Airlines that gives me points for searches and that racked me up another 20 points.
I'm going to share every trick with you, so keep coming back!
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