{"id":5606,"date":"2022-10-21T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=5606"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:19:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:19:09","slug":"getting-ready-for-the-big-game-a-few-other-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/21\/getting-ready-for-the-big-game-a-few-other-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready for the Big Game (+ A Few Other Things)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/promotions.bankofamerica.com\/card\/morerewardsday\">Bank of America has a promotion on Saturday, November 5<\/a> for an extra 2% back or 2x bonus miles on all non-cash advance purchases, which really means any normal spend or normal manufactured spend. In preparation:\n<p>\u2013 Open <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/09\/bank-of-america-followup\/\">another round of Bank of America cards<\/a> as soon as possible<br \/>\u2013 Make sure your credit lines are paid off by November 3rd<br \/>\u2013 Set aside time on November 5th to maximize your earnings<br \/>\u2013 Bypass the <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/promotions.bankofamerica.com\/preferredrewards\/en\">Preferred Rewards 90 day waiting period<\/a> by opening a business account in branch and asking to be part of the program<\/p>\n<p>And some related but general advice <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milenomics.com\/\">prosthelytized by Sam and Robert at Milenomics<\/a>: You should always be ready with a basic game plan for when a big event like this lands so you can spring into action.<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cashbackmonitor.com\/cashback-store\/giftcards.com\/\">Giftcards.com<\/a> is back up to 8% cashback on the mobile <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/capital-one-shopping\/id1089294040\">Capital One Shopping portal<\/a>. Just <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/14\/the-curious-case-of-capital-one-shopping-and-giftcards-com\/\">watch out for the $2,000 gotcha<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/giftcards.kroger.com\/visa-mastercard-gift-card\">Kroger online has $10 off of $150 or more<\/a> in Visa or Mastercard gift cards through Tuesday <br \/>with promo code <em>OCT2022<\/em>, and you\u2019ll earn fuel points to boot. While Kroger offers better cards in-store, the online variety is Metabank. (Thanks to <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gcgalore.com\/kroger-online-buy-150-visa-or-mastercard-gift-cards-get-10-off\/\">GC Galore<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/s3.grocerywebsite.com\/production\/printable_ad_images\/56311\/original\/SNS-1.pdf\">Shop <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.grocerywebsite.com\/production\/printable_ad_images\/56311\/original\/SNS-1.pdf\">n<\/a><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/s3.grocerywebsite.com\/production\/printable_ad_images\/56311\/original\/SNS-1.pdf\">\u2019 Save stores have $10 off of $100 <\/a>in Visa or Mastercard gift cards through Wednesday, limit five per account. These are also Metabanks. (Thanks again to <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gcgalore.com\/shop-n-save-buy-100-visa-or-mastercard-gift-card-get-10-off-your-next-purchase\/\">GC Galore<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5609\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-1.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-1.png 640w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-1-225x300.png 225w\" width=\"420\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">I can\u2019t argue that this isn\u2019t a plan, but it\u2019s not exactly what I had in mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bank of America has a promotion on Saturday, November 5 for an extra 2% back or 2x bonus miles on all non-cash advance purchases, which<\/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":[54,53,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-gift-cards","category-scaling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606","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=5606"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6919,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606\/revisions\/6919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}