Miles For Family

Long-Term Card Strategy for “High-Spender” Family

September 29, 2015 By Leana 2 Comments

Most of the advice in my blog is primarily of use to “low-spender” middle-class family. If you are looking for sophisticated MS or reselling strategy, you are in the wrong place. That said, majority of my credit card advice does apply to high spenders as well. Here is an email I got the other day. […]

(Update: Dead) Get Sallie Mae Barclaycard While You Still Can

September 28, 2015 By Leana Leave a Comment

Update: The link is dead, and according to one commenter, Barclays stopped accepting applications for this product. Not sure what happened, I just published a post on this, but it got deleted. Let’s try this again. Folks, last call on Sallie Mae Barclaycard. Looks like Barclay’s is closing all new applications for this product. Doctor […]

Going All-In With IHG “Accelerate” Promo

September 28, 2015 By Leana 1 Comment

And by all-in, I mean staying just 1 night. I’ve written about Accelerate promo from IHG and the fact that it can be quite lucrative for some families. That said, I personally had no plans to participate in it. We have a lot of IHG points, and no major vacation plans coming up this fall. […]

Questions From Readers

September 27, 2015 By Leana Leave a Comment

Now and again, I’ll try to feature questions from readers. I hope you’ll find this segment helpful. The absolute best way to contact me is via email at milesforfamily@gmail.com Don’t hesitate to reach out! Unless I’m on vacation, I’ll usually respond within a day. I also try to make sure I acknowledge every comment […]

Changing All of My Travel Plans… Again

September 25, 2015 By Leana 4 Comments

I’ve freely admitted before that I happen to be the most indecisive person in the universe. I work and re-work my plans multiple times. And so it goes with the upcoming visit of my parents in March of 2016. Originally, we planned to just vacation in Florida. Then I’ve decided to take them to Puerto […]

New Twist in My Citi Thank You Premier Card Dilemma

September 23, 2015 By Leana 5 Comments

I wrote not too long ago how I tried to convert this card to Citi Thank You Preferred and unfortunately, failed. Well, I decided to think about it some more before deciding what to do with the points. Then, few days ago, I got my new shiny Citi Thank You Premier MasterCard. It came in a […]