Tell me about your points....

[loskadoodle]

Aug 2, 2015 9:37:29 GMT -5 boiler717 said:

Aug 2, 2015 8:57:34 GMT -5 loskadoodle said:

Omg how do you collect all these point?? Teach me your ways!

Discover, Citi, Chase and Barclay are all from personal spending -- we charge about $3k a month, plus this year we had all of our IVF expenses charged. All the travel specific ones are from work travel and my work card (Delta Platinum Reserve Amex). At my peak I was flying 3x a month, charging around $75k a year in business expenses, mostly travel. Now I'm down to once a month, around $25k a year in business expenses.

Ah ok. Dhs company books all his travel and I don't really travel anymore. We do need a new travel cc though!

[cincodemayo]

We only have airline points, I think we have like 50K Delta points after my H just cashed some in for a flight to San Fran.

Next year we will use some for a trip to Florida or to get to DHs family reunion in STL.

I guess I have Ulta points too but I always cash them in. I just recently realized you get more money for your points if you wait.

[preppy]

I used 150k Amex point for our flights to Hawaii in May and used about 320k Marriott points for the hotel stay. We are also using 100k Marriott point for SIL's wedding in two weeks. I have about 90k Marriott points left I will save for our next vacation.

I also just used all my JetBlue points for our flights to St Croix in February.

I travel heavily for work so I get tons of points.

[patbutcher]

I save my shoppers optimum points for the Spend your points weekend. I love getting stuff for free! I find shoppers expensive except for things on sale which are sometimes very cheap.

I also collect pampers points but I redeem them for photo gifts at Christmas (calendars etc)

air miles - I redeem at Rona or wherever when I have about £30 worth. Lol my phone is British now ££££££

I also like the Indigo points.

[rugbywife]

Aug 2, 2015 9:00:35 GMT -5 IrishBelle said:

I'm sitting with $109 in PC points. I have the PC Mastercard so that helps them add up faster.

Shoppers I have about $100 but our local Shoppers just closed and the next closest one is an hour away. Their everyday prices as way overpriced but their sales are great.  I've heard that they will be switching to PC Points in the new year since they are now owned by Loblaws so I will probably use them up around Christmas when they have one of their spend the points events.  

We have a RBC Visa card with travel rewards and I save those points to use on vacations.  Its not enough to pay for a vacation but it does help.  

Omg!! If I can spend my PC points there we are in trouble.

[rugbywife]

Aug 2, 2015 10:53:46 GMT -5 patbutcher said:

I save my shoppers optimum points for the Spend your points weekend. I love getting stuff for free! .

When they had their last redeem 95k point and get an extra $30 I got my clarisonic! The point I am collecting now will go towards getting new heads for the brush when the time comes.

[patbutcher]

Aug 2, 2015 11:16:43 GMT -5 rugbywife said:

Aug 2, 2015 10:53:46 GMT -5 patbutcher said:

I save my shoppers optimum points for the Spend your points weekend. I love getting stuff for free! .

When they had their last redeem 95k point and get an extra $30 I got my clarisonic! The point I am collecting now will go towards getting new heads for the brush when the time comes.

I'm so boring, I just use mine for stocking up on stuff I hate paying for- diapers, detergent, toilet paper etc. I normally do the one in December and get Christmas presents for h's assistants too.

[rugbywife]

Aug 2, 2015 12:48:14 GMT -5 patbutcher said:

Aug 2, 2015 11:16:43 GMT -5 rugbywife said:

When they had their last redeem 95k point and get an extra $30 I got my clarisonic! The point I am collecting now will go towards getting new heads for the brush when the time comes.

I'm so boring, I just use mine for stocking up on stuff I hate paying for- diapers, detergent, toilet paper etc. I normally do the one in December and get Christmas presents for h's assistants too.

See, I go and buy stuff like diapers and razor blades (OMG SO FUCKING EXPENSIVE) to GET the points, but then I am all like, eff that, I am spending the points on me. lol. 

[IrishBelle]

Aug 2, 2015 12:48:14 GMT -5 patbutcher said:

Aug 2, 2015 11:16:43 GMT -5 rugbywife said:

When they had their last redeem 95k point and get an extra $30 I got my clarisonic! The point I am collecting now will go towards getting new heads for the brush when the time comes.

I'm so boring, I just use mine for stocking up on stuff I hate paying for- diapers, detergent, toilet paper etc. I normally do the one in December and get Christmas presents for h's assistants too.

Me too but add razor blades to the list.

[rugbywife]

Aug 2, 2015 13:32:42 GMT -5 @vicmo said:

Aug 2, 2015 12:49:29 GMT -5 rugbywife said:

See, I go and buy stuff like diapers and razor blades (OMG SO FUCKING EXPENSIVE) to GET the points, but then I am all like, eff that, I am spending the points on me. lol. 

Razor blades are fucked up expensive. My H used to go through them like crazy - we buy them at Costco. But he got a better electric shaver and I feel like he hardly ever uses the manual anymore.

Essentially the best deal I can get on my Hydro 5 (I use a men's razor) is $4 a blade.  I should have gone into metal sharpening business instead of education apparently, lol. 

[wavepool]

Aug 2, 2015 13:32:42 GMT -5 @vicmo said:

Aug 2, 2015 12:49:29 GMT -5 rugbywife said:

See, I go and buy stuff like diapers and razor blades (OMG SO FUCKING EXPENSIVE) to GET the points, but then I am all like, eff that, I am spending the points on me. lol. 

Razor blades are fucked up expensive. My H used to go through them like crazy - we buy them at Costco. But he got a better electric shaver and I feel like he hardly ever uses the manual anymore.

Have you compared prices to Dorco? I asked about razor prices here a couple months ago and got that suggestion and found them so much cheaper on their site.

[arch01]

Aug 2, 2015 13:43:28 GMT -5 rugbywife said:

Aug 2, 2015 13:32:42 GMT -5 @vicmo said:

Razor blades are fucked up expensive. My H used to go through them like crazy - we buy them at Costco. But he got a better electric shaver and I feel like he hardly ever uses the manual anymore.

Essentially the best deal I can get on my Hydro 5 (I use a men's razor) is $4 a blade.  I should have gone into metal sharpening business instead of education apparently, lol. 

Get thee to Dollar Shave Club!

[arch01]

We just cashed in 73,000 Chase points to buy flights for everyone for our cruise. 5 flights for (essentially) $730. Not bad!

We still have 41,000ish Chase points left.

I've got $90 in rewards on my BR card and so far this year I've had $300 deposited back to my student loans through my Upromise CC. I love that card, I'm often getting 10+% back when I shop online.

[mainelyfoolish]

I have 1212 Coke rewards points. If they do their "sale" again this December, I should be able to get a couple of $25 gift cards to places like Home Depot, Best Buy, Walmart, or McDonalds.

[ewall]

Aug 2, 2015 9:37:29 GMT -5 boiler717 said:

Aug 2, 2015 8:57:34 GMT -5 loskadoodle said:

Omg how do you collect all these point?? Teach me your ways!

Discover, Citi, Chase and Barclay are all from personal spending -- we charge about $3k a month, plus this year we had all of our IVF expenses charged. All the travel specific ones are from work travel and my work card (Delta Platinum Reserve Amex). At my peak I was flying 3x a month, charging around $75k a year in business expenses, mostly travel. Now I'm down to once a month, around $25k a year in business expenses.

I'm jealous! We have to use our corporate card so I can't get CC points. I only get my Marriott rewards and Delta miles. 

[ewall]

I was trying to figure out what to use my Marriott points for since both of the trips we have planned this year won't work with my points. Found where I can order a $500 Visa gift card. Going to load that to my Amazon account for a month or two of "free" shopping.

[lg28]

I only recently became better at getting loyalty cards and stuff (except PC and shoppers, I've had those a while).
I have an aeroplan card for flights and an SPG card for hotel stays. I hate thinking of all the great flights and hotel stays I've missed getting points on!!!