Miles and Points
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Manufactured Spending 2022: My Year End Review – Great Success
Manufactured Spending is a highly lucrative method to generate enormous amounts of miles and points. I’ve covered severed well known methods over the years, but here’s my full recap for Manufactured Spending 2022 even though we still have December left. Elite Statuses Earned Hyatt Globalist I stayed about 20 or so nights at Hyatt properties…
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Manufactured Spending: The Beautiful Art of Stacking
Manufactured Spending(MS for short), is my primary method of generating tens of thousands of points each year. This method can sometimes be tedious, but when I take a nice trip with Jen, it all feels worth it. A sub-segment of MS that I utilized emphasizes the important art of extreme deal stacking. This means double…
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Manufactured Spending: Is there Anything Left after 2022?
Manufactured spending is an art and the process of artificially spending with credit cards to generate miles and points. This creates tremendous value and this post will cover what still works in 2022 and beyond. Why I Manufactured Spend? Before we get into the weeds of what methods still work, let’s recap on why I…
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A Big Thank You to Jen: The Food Curator & My Awesome Other Half
Strictly Travel was a fun venture I started back in 2019. Originally, this was a way to learn how to blog as well as working on my programming skills. Prior to founding Strictly Travel, Jen and I were fresh out of college and just beginning to understand miles and points. Although Jen doesn’t write much,…
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Last Chance: Chase Sapphire Reserve 80,000 Signup Bonus (Ends 11/30/2022)
Chase’s luxury credit card, the Chase Sapphire Reserve is currently offering an elevated signup bonus of 80,000 points after $4,000 of spend in the first three months. This card carries a hefty annual fee of $550 but also comes with a slew of benefits. One of these is a $300 annual travel credit which effectively…
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Aeroplan Selling Miles with a Big Bonus: Should you Bite?
Aeroplan, Air Canada’s loyalty program is selling points with up to a 105% bonus if you purchase 80,000 or more points. Purchasing 80,000 points would net you a bonus of 84,000 points, costing $2800 CAD(Canadian Dollars) or about $2,100 USD. This gets you down to about 1.28 cents per point. If you’re truly daring and…