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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...