There's More Than One Reason to Celebrate Back to School!

There's More Than One Reason to Celebrate Back to School!

It's August and all across the country people are either celebrating (see: parents of young kids trapped at home) or bemoaning (see:teachers as well as students) that time known as Back To School. Now personally I'm ok with it as my two oldest are college age and the two at home are in high school so I have mixed feelings on that topic.

However, aside from that it signals to me that College Football is coming up fast, that the Cardinals will be playing for another October ticket, that on a local level an exciting season of high school volleyball is about to kick off and . . . . .

Bonus Points & Miles will be ripe for the picking on shopping portals!

Retailers will be jausting for your dollar and they will increase their point/miles per $ offers across many channels.

Many retailers will briefly increase their points/miles per $ offers. With a quick check today I see where JCPenny is at 10 pts/$ and Saks Fifth Avenue at 9 pts/$ shopping thru Chase Ultimate Rewards.

US Airways Dividend Miles Storefront has Dell Consumer doubling their offer from 2 to 4 miles/$.

Shop My Way by Mariott portal has nice offers on two websites that offer college textbooks:   Neebo at 7pts/$ and Bookrenter.com at 6 pts/ $.

Some shopping portals offer additional bonuses for your cumulative purchases for a limited time. Southwest's Rapid Rewards offers up to 1000 bonus points for $600+ cumulative spending.

Delta's Skymiles Shopping is also offering 1000 bonus miles for $600+ in cumulative spending.

So if you are wanting to begin actively pursuing points & miles for travel, take this opportunity to assess what foreseeable expenditures you have, formulate a plan to order things you know you will need to purchase and see if you can work a plan to order your items to make a shopping portal bonus work for you.

Last year I went with Skymiles Shopping portal. Their "fine print" was a little different then and there was a greater opportunity to accumulate cumulative bonus miles. Regardless, I formulated my plan and in late fall my Skymiles bonus of 3500 points was deposited.

Another reason to enjoy Back to School and its wasn't even what you were thinking, now was it?

Make YOUR plan:
-You could be earning points/miles with your Credit Card.
-You could be earning points/miles from the retailer of your choice by shopping through the online portal you choose.
-You could be earning points/miles from the shopping portal as a bonus for your cumulative purchases.

All of these points & miles for the same order. And it can all be for items you are going to purchase anyway!