{"id":13014,"date":"2025-12-25T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=13014"},"modified":"2025-12-25T09:35:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T16:35:26","slug":"guest-thursday-diaries-of-a-p2-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/25\/guest-thursday-diaries-of-a-p2-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Thursday: Diaries of a P2, Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

EDITOR\u2019S NOTE: Matt is on vacation until at or around January 1, 2026. Until then we have guest posts, today\u2019s post is brought to us by Matt’s P2, Lindsay! Special thanks for the post!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you\u2019re a P2, especially if your P1 is the infamous MEAB, there\u2019s a level of normalcy that becomes second nature. For example, on any given day a hundred credit cards could arrive at the house and you don\u2019t bat an eye. Or perhaps you mention to your P1 that all the kids will be gone for Thanksgiving, and suddenly you\u2019re going on a Christmas market extravaganza for the second<\/em> year in a row. (It was amazing, by the way, there\u2019s the cutest elf themed market in Cologne that I highly recommend). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, yes. I\u2026and perhaps you as well my fellow P2\u2026operate on a different level than the average human. One that is an intense privilege to experience. One that will ruin our children as they age because \u2018ew, I have to fly coach are you kidding me<\/em>?\u2019 or \u2018you\u2019ve never been to Europe? That\u2019s so cute<\/em>\u2019 or even \u2018for our wedding, can we take Qatar First Class to Dubai? We don\u2019t want to have to fly with the regular people.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear readers, I want to be clear that I\u2019m being slightly flippant, but I also see nothing wrong with this. My P1 works incredibly hard to give us the life that we lead. So much so that he basically works two jobs: his regular life, and his points one. Additionally, as a formerly single mom who lived in low-income apartments across the hallway from a stripper who would come over and steal my make-up I never could have GUESSED that I\u2019d be able to take my mom and daughter to Paris on lie flat seats because my husband found us great award space<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

P2\u2019s, let\u2019s face it. We are on a different level. And we are lucky. Soooo lucky. There are many things in this new level that I did not anticipate. Big, life changing experiences like having to explain to your friend group that YES, you fly first class but NO, you\u2019re not secretly a trust fund baby. Yes, there are many things about this life that I didn\u2019t expect. However\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think one of the largest things I didn\u2019t anticipate was the inability to watch Secret Lives of Mormon Wives without thinking to myself \u201cok cool story bro, but that\u2019s not super special.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HEAR ME OUT LOYAL MEAB FANS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re anything like me (and I\u2019m talking to the P2\u2019s here) then you\u2019re watching, or have watched, Secret Lives of Mormon Wives on Hulu. If you\u2019re not watching this show, it\u2019s a shame, because it\u2019s demonstrably the best reality show on TV right now, hands down. Even if you\u2019re not watching, I\u2019m sure some of it has seeped into your lives and your streams. From the term \u201cFruity Pebbles<\/a>\u201d to low dosing ketamine<\/a> when you have a fight with your husband to whether or not the Afflecks are actually related<\/a> to Ben, the show is an exquisite romp that will leave you with your mouth hanging open and your fingers slamming the \u201cnext episode\u201d button. BUT, you\u2019ll never want to skip the intro because it is that<\/em> good<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, you might be wondering, how in the world does this connect to the life of the average P2? Don\u2019t worry, I\u2019m getting there. The ladies on SLOMW are constantly traveling, whether it be Europe, LA, or simply St. George. Part of the fun of the show is watching the women traveling. It\u2019s meant to be the thing. <\/em>The big experience that proves these women have made it big<\/em>. We, as the audience, are supposed to watch with a sense of awe as the women enter into their hotel rooms or travel to exotic places like Beaver, Utah. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, when I\u2019m watching, I find myself often sort of sneering at the experience of the travel itself. Sometimes I\u2019m like \u201cHuh. That room is just meh.\u201d or WORSE, I\u2019ll think to myself \u201cew, she flew Southwest, where every<\/em> seat is first class?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me try and give a good example. There\u2019s an episode (or maybe even two) where #momtok and #dadtok get flown out to LA to do press or something like that (IDK, it doesn\u2019t matter). And, sure, they get professional hair and make-up, and sure, they get to do cool things like give interviews and have busses with their boobs<\/s> er, faces on them. BUT, their hotel was only sort of\u2026OK. Like, it was nice, I guess, but I was convinced that if any one of them had any sort of status they\u2019d have been given a better room. Or, perhaps, gone to a different hotel that was bougie-er (is that a word?) So, the very thing that Hulu is trying to sell me: beauty, influence, extravagant travel to extravagant places\u2026I\u2019ve already experienced, probably in better accommodations. And I\u2019m just a girl with no influence and no followers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which got me thinking. My lovely P2\u2019s, are we\u2026are we influencers without the drama? Because I guarantee you that I\u2019ve flown better, eaten better, had better rooms, and seen more things than the lovely Taylor Frankie Paul\u2026and I didn\u2019t need to be involved in a scandal to do it. And sure, I\u2019d love their reality TV paycheck, but other than that it\u2019s gotten to the point where \u201cnext steps\u201d are things that the average person couldn\u2019t dream of, and typically involves things we can\u2019t get with points. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, I want to stay at Chateau Marmont<\/a> like a freaking A list celebrity. I want to stay overnight at the Palace of Versailles like a princess. I want to go to Club 33 at Disneyland, then stay in the guest suite above Pirates of the Caribbean (even though I\u2019m currently in a fight with Disney because I think their Genie Pass RUINED EVERYTHING, but if they offered me a stay inside the park I don\u2019t physically have the willpower to turn it down). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are the last dregs of bucket list items that, annoyingly, points are unable to purchase. These are the things that normal people typically can\u2019t do, and these are the experiences that even the beautiful ladies of the BEST REALITY SHOW ON TELEVISION have yet to do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, I\u2019m painfully aware of how lucky I am. I\u2019m also aware of how much life has changed in irrevocable ways since MEAB started playing the points game. I\u2019m the luckiest passenger princess, the luckiest bougie bitch, and I am so grateful for everything that my family and I get to see and do and experience. But, dear readers\u2026how do we as P2\u2019s get to that \u201cnext level?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, I\u2019ve thought about it, and I\u2019m officially pitching a new reality show concept. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It will be called \u201cThe Bougie Lives of P1 Wives\u201d(\u2122). It will be almost exclusively travel based, with the exception of the home shots where our P1\u2019s tell us (probably mic\u2019d but behind a closed door for drama) that they\u2019ve booked us on some crazy cool first class trip because award space opened up. The next shot will be P2TOK(\u2122) getting drunk on Krug 30,000 feet in the air while flying Qantas First Class. We\u2019ll fawn over the pajamas that we get, and exclaim over the amenities kit with $200 perfume samples. (As an aside, that actually happened, MEAB brought me back some from his latest flight and I about died when I looked up the price). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ll stay, on points, at places like the Waldorf Astoria Cabo, or an old castle in Argentina, or in an overwater bungalo in the Maldives. The drama will not, as may be assumed, come from infighting, but from 4x reward redemption days at Safeway where there will be multiple shots of P1TOK(\u2122) and their P2\u2019s rushing from store to store to grind because \u201cdo you want to go Koh Samui or not Lindsay?\u201d The shot will end with us, in the passenger seat, with a little sweet drink for our sweet little faces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If your P2 would like to be a part of this, or, if you happen to know any Hollywood producers who\u2019d be interested in my pitch, please let me know! If not..well..that\u2019s ok. Just remember the next time your P1 is grinding for points, or you’re on hold with a credit card company for 30 minutes because the card is in your name, that you are cooler than an influencer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Lindsay<\/p>\n\n\n

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