The Points Mom

Win-Win-Donating My Kids’ Miles And Extending Their Miles Expiration Dates!

If you followed #8 on my Lets Get Started page, hopefully, you have opened frequent flyer accounts for your children.  However, a few airlines, like American Airlines, have account mileage expiration dates due to lack of activity in an account. With American, kids can’t drum up activity by using American Airlines Citi cards and Barclays […]

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Why I May Choose To Let My Kids (And Mine) Hawaiian Airlines HawaiianMiles Expire

  We traveled to Hawaii back in December of 2015 on Delta SkyMiles.  Although we used Barclaycard Arrival miles for our inter-island flights, these flights counted as paid fare with Hawaiian Airlines.  The flights were ones in which we were able to receive HawaiianMiles for the flights. We each earned 528 miles for these inter-island […]

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I Ordered Magazine Subscriptions AGAIN To Prevent My Kids’ American AAdvantage Miles From Expiring

I did it once and I just did it again.  I just ordered magazine subscriptions to prevent my kid’s American AAdvantage miles from expiring. If you followed #8 on my Lets Get Started page, hopefully, you have opened frequent flyer accounts for your children.  However, many airlines have account mileage expiration dates due to lack of […]

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Don’t Let Your Free Night Awards Expire-Here Is What I Did With An Anniversary Award

  Many of the Chase hotel cards offer a free night’s stay each year, upon your card member anniversary.  For example, the Chase Hyatt Visa, offers 1 free night at any Category 1-4 property.  The Chase Marriott Rewards Premier Credit Card offers 1 free night at any Category 1-5 property.  The Chase IHG Rewards Club Select Credit Card offers 1 free night at […]

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