Just curious what people have managed to accumulate on their various credit card and travel loyalty programs!
Until this year, I used to blow through my points as fast as I'd earn them. I spent about half a million United miles in the last couple years, for example, buying merchandise at a horrible 0.6c/mile redemption value, mostly because I had no plans for personal travel and didn't know what else to do with the points.
But starting this year, when I finally got my first rewards credit cards and started reading up on the best ways to use them, I've decided to start actually saving my points/miles... finally.
So far this year, here's what I've saved up in my various accounts:
138,000 United miles
19,000 Southwest points
70,000 Ultimate Rewards points
2 hotels.com free nights
1 free National rental car day
I really want to start using it to book some vacations, but on the other hand I also kind of want to just keep growing it and see how many I can get, haha. One thing is certain, though - I definitely won't be wasting 100k united miles for an 18-bottle wine fridge again any time soon 
Total Loan Balance: $43k / $65k
Total SL: $78k
@coreysw12 wrote:Just curious what people have managed to accumulate on their various credit card and travel loyalty programs!
Until this year, I used to blow through my points as fast as I'd earn them. I spent about half a million United miles in the last couple years, for example, buying merchandise at a horrible 0.6c/mile redemption value, mostly because I had no plans for personal travel and didn't know what else to do with the points.
But starting this year, when I finally got my first rewards credit cards and started reading up on the best ways to use them, I've decided to start actually saving my points/miles... finally.
So far this year, here's what I've saved up in my various accounts:
138,000 United miles
19,000 Southwest points
70,000 Ultimate Rewards points
2 hotels.com free nights
1 free National rental car day
I really want to start using it to book some vacations, but on the other hand I also kind of want to just keep growing it and see how many I can get, haha. One thing is certain, though - I definitely won't be wasting 100k united miles for an 18-bottle wine fridge again any time soon
Best website I’ve seen for searching for award availability is www.awardhacker.com.
I have the following:
177K AA Miles
70K MR Points
600K HHonors Points
85K Barclays Travel Points
not a lot, but I’m saving up and hopefully will put to good use for an awesome vacation in a couple years!
Holy cow, how have I never found that website before?!? Thank you!! That is going to save me a ton of time