How goes your card reward tracking, I thought I remember you starting to dip into it but can’t find the exact post, thought it may have been this one… how many accounts do you end up having open at a time? Wife and I started doing it 2-3 years ago but tracking it all is starting to be a bit much.

By the way, I’m really looking forward to an upcoming book called Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport, I preordered it but it’s not out yet so can’t recommend it as of yet. I hope it has good ideas on how to cut back on non physical clutter, but thought you may be interested in the book if you haven’t heard of it.

Jeff

1 million miles? I’m so jealous…

Also, as for the miles, yeah, we’ve just been hording them. We’ve got about a million at this point. What we’ve found is that since we can travel mostly as expenses for our company, it’s actually better to get the tax write offs on that and then use the miles for things we can rope in work excursions. So we just save them up. It’s worth while to have a huge stock pile of them, though.

Cool site. I’ve heard of this concept but never found a site which searches for you.

Yeah, just because the experiment doesn’t go exactly as planned, it is not really a failure as long as you learn something. I have 8 months to go, so I’m anticipating more challenges 🙂

Start with 1 miles card with the airline you fly the most. Usually you can get a huge signup bonus bolus of miles, and many give you perks like free checked bags or discounted companion tickets. Sometimes there is an annual fee, but it is often worth it.

True, but in our case many of the decisions are not one person or the other but a mix of both. If I didn’t discuss her purchases it would give an incomplete and potentially misleading picture on my/our consumption. I don’t want my readers to get angry at me and think I am deceiving them somehow 😉

I’ve let so many points and miles expire it’s almost embarrassing. My new strategy is to just focus on a couple of programs and set up some low recurring monthly bill and put it on auto pay. That way there is monthly or yearly activity.

🙂