{"id":1046,"date":"2021-02-26T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2023-04-18T14:42:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:42:44","slug":"bye-bye-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/26\/bye-bye-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye Bye February"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the end of the month approaching really quickly, it\u2019s time for me (and I hope you) to do the following:<\/p>\n

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  1. Make sure you\u2019ve spent any American Express credits in Uber Eats or Uber by Sunday evening. Watch out for combining <\/a>accounts<\/a> that have stored Uber Cash and American Express Uber credits<\/a> though.<\/li>\n
  2. Make sure you\u2019ve spent any $10 American Express Personal Gold dining credits. The easiest way IMO is to buy something for pickup for $10ish at a local coffee shop on GrubHub.<\/li>\n
  3. If you have an American Express co-branded personal card (Marriott, Delta, Hilton), make sure you\u2019ve attached the dining offer to your card<\/a> and spend it. The easiest way to do this from home seems to be to buy an exact value DoorDash or Uber Eats gift card on Fluz<\/a>, which will code correctly as a restaurant on the co-brands. Find a Fluz referral from a friend to make their day if you don\u2019t have an account already.<\/li>\n
  4. Spend any American Express co-branded business card wireless credits. I prepay my cell phone bill with this one, and after last year\u2019s Master Value Injection I\u2019ve racked up a big credit. Just make sure you\u2019ve added the offer to your American Express card<\/a> first.<\/li>\n
  5. Check for any credit cards that have had annual fees post in February and call them for a retention offer. I suggest saying something like: \u201cI\u2019m thinking of closing this card because of its high annual fee and I\u2019m not using the benefits right now, but before I decide what to do I was wondering if there are any retention offers or spend bonuses.\u201d I don\u2019t think it works with other banks, but with AmEx you can do this over chat rather than the phone.\n

    Note: Don\u2019t skip this one! Stu emailed me earlier this week to say that he got a total of $1,250 in retention offers after making just a few calls. Be cool, be like Stu!<\/em> <\/li>\n

  6. Cancel any cell phone burner accounts that you\u2019re done with (and that you didn\u2019t use a virtual account number that expires on).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    Time to clean up after all of the \u201cfood\u201d you bought with your dining credits.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    With the end of the month approaching really quickly, it\u2019s time for me (and I hope you) to do the following: Make sure you\u2019ve spent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housekeeping","category-quick-hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7347,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/7347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}