{"id":13406,"date":"2026-03-16T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=13406"},"modified":"2026-03-16T09:23:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:23:52","slug":"monday-q2-5x-credit-card-updates-thankyou-sharing-and-paypal-bill-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/monday-q2-5x-credit-card-updates-thankyou-sharing-and-paypal-bill-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday: Q2 5x, Credit Card Updates, ThankYou Sharing, and PayPal Bill Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. It’s time to register for Q2 rotating category card bonuses:

    – Chase Freedom and Freedom Flex<\/a>: Amazon, Chase Travel, and Feeding America
    –     Discover IT<\/a>: Restaurants and Home Improvement
    –     Citi Dividend<\/a>: Grocery and Citi Travel
    \u2013\u00a0    US Bank Cash+<\/a>: I choose utilities and electronics

    Every one of these has a way to manufactured spend your way to your $1,500 quarterly. I’d suggest knocking these out on day one so you don’t have to think about them, but you do you.
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  2. The Chase Freedom Unlimited no-annual fee card has an increased sign-up bonus of $250<\/a> after $500 spend in three months via referrals only.

    The sign-up bonus isn’t great, but there are a number of use-cases for 1.5x Ultimate Rewards everywhere. Its 3x categories have niche use-cases too.
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  3. Citi ThankYou Points sharing between different accountholders is ending on May 17<\/a>. If this doesn’t sound like a big deal, it’s not really because the limits were 100,000 points annually. You’ll just have to join team QR now.
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  4. The American Express Bevy and Brilliant Marriott Bonvoy cards have new language<\/a> restricting eligibility for cardmembers that:

    – Have or had a Chase Marriott card in the last 30 days
    – Opened an American Express Boundless, Bold, or Bountiful card in the last 90 days
    – Got a sign-up bonus for a new Boundless, Bold, or Bountiful in the last 24 months

    Can gamers still game? Undoubtedly. Or should I say, Bundoutably?
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  5. There was a time when PayPal Bill Pay games<\/a> could amount to huge profits in a short period of time. Then there was another period with different games, and yet another period with even more games. PayPal has thrown in the towel now, BillPay is completely gone from the app and website<\/a>.

    Other FinTechs that use the same backend have been going through interesting changes recently too. Coincidence? I doubt it.
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  6. Office Depot \/ OfficeMax stores have $15 off of $300+ in Mastercard gift cards<\/a> through Saturday, limit nine per transaction.

    These are Pathward \/ BlackHawk Network gift cards.
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    Have a nice Monday friends!<\/p>\n\n\n

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    Even playing the whah-whah trombones for PayPal BillPay died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Have a nice Monday friends! Even playing the whah-whah trombones for PayPal BillPay died.<\/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":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,53,12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-gift-cards","category-ms-hints","category-quick-hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13406","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=13406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13410,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13406\/revisions\/13410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}