The Points Mom

Do You Feel Like Me Right Now?

    I have to believe that the person at Chase who thought up the Chase Freedom card with its 5% bonus categories must be a mom with kids.  The amount of money I have spent over this last spring quarter at drugstores and supermarkets (the Freedom 5X bonus categories) may be more than I […]

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We Are Saving $9,700 When We Head To Amsterdam And Paris This Christmas

  And here are the details as to how it’s being done… We Are Headed To Amsterdam And Paris And We Saved $2,700 On Flights Using Avios Points   Christmas In Amsterdam-3 Nights, 2 Rooms, $2,500 Saved With Chase Ultimate Rewards   I Have 9 Months To Accumulate 360,000 Marriott Rewards Points To Save $4,500 […]

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Christmas In Amsterdam-3 Nights, 2 Rooms, $2,500 Saved With Chase Ultimate Rewards

We are off to Europe for Christmas 2017.  Remember, we saved $2,700 on our British Air flights.  We will be spending our first 3 nights in Amsterdam and next 5 nights in Paris. In Amsterdam, I booked 2 rooms at the Hyatt Andaz Amsterdam Prinsengracht.  Chase had numerous hotels on the Ultimate Rewards Travel site, but […]

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If You Were Thinking About Applying For A Chase Sapphire Reserve Card, The Clock Is Ticking…

  Happy New Year and stay tuned for my new and improved website which is coming soon. 🙂 In the meantime, let’s move to more pressing topics… Last year, I often posted about one of Chase’s latest products, the Chase Sapphire Reserve card. I applied for that card last fall and scored a 100,000 point […]

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