Tuesday: 5x Time, Fee-Free Gift Cards, A Backdoor to Miles & More, and a new Drinking Game

1. It’s time to register for quarterly 5x card earning for Q3:
   
   – Chase Freedom: Gas, EV charging, live entertainment, and instacart
   – Discover IT: Gas
   – Citi Dividend: Gas and home improvement
   – US Bank Cash+: I choose electronics stores and grocery
   
   I’d recommend knocking all of these out in the first week of July so you don’t have to think about it for the rest of the quarter.
   
2. Staples has fee free $200 Mastercard gift cards through Saturday, limit nine per transaction.
   
   These are Pathward gift cards.
   
3. American Express offers has a targeted offer for: 3-5x at gas stations with Delta cards, up to 5,000 bonus SkyMiles. There’s a speedy way to knock this one out.
   
4. Chase Ultimate Rewards has a 65% transfer bonus to Marriott Bonvoy through June 30. Also because it’s Marriott, they’ve pre-Bonvoyed you by lowering the bonus to 50% between July 1 and August 15.
   
   There’s a slightly interesting play for converting Ultimate Rewards into difficult to earn airline programs like Lufthansa Miles&More (EDIT: Gary reminded me that Lufthansa Miles&More is no longer part of the program), which has a transfer ratio from Ultimate Rewards through Bonvoy of 1:0.687 in 25,000 mile increments.
   
5. The Citi Shop Your Way Rewards Mastercard sent new mid-month spending offers for online spend:
   
   – $100 statement credit with $1,000+
   – $75 statement credit with $750+
   
   (Thanks to Dave 37 and K)
   
6. It’s time for a new churning drinking game: Now that we’re less than two weeks away from American Express Membership Rewards being able to be transferred to Hawaiian, we’ll be bombarded by blog posts, reddit comments, FlyerTalk comments, and group chats about transferring to Hawaiian (and thus Alaska) while you still can. Two things:
   
   – If you’re going to do a transfer, just knock it out now so you don’t have to think about it later
   – Every time you see one of these articles, take a shot of your favorite beverage
   
   The churner who finds the most articles and comments about the “partnership ending” and “last chance” gets a prize!

Happy Tuesday!

A churner passes out after reading RSS feeds for 17 minutes while playing the new drinking game.