{"id":9186,"date":"2024-02-16T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=9186"},"modified":"2024-02-15T23:41:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T06:41:35","slug":"weekend-quad-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/16\/weekend-quad-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Quad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>EDITOR\u2019S NOTE:&nbsp;The feedback I\u2019ve gotten for guest post Saturday has been resoundingly positive. I\u2019ve got a few posts left to publish, but I\u2019m running low. If you\u2019re interested in a guest post, please&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:milesearnandburn@gmail.com\">reach out<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-9.png\">Chase is sending targeted offers on its personal Southwest cards for 3x points<\/a> at gas, grocery, and dining through the end of 2024, and bonus points count for companion pass but not toward other status levels. <br \/><br \/>What does Southwest have to do with gas, grocery, and dining you ask? Well, they&#8217;re probably the worlds biggest supplier of pretzel snack-mix bags, and the snack-mix bag cabal knows how to pull strings, trust me. (Thanks to Lava121)<br \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We&#8217;re not yet at the point that the <a href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/18\/unsung-hero-citi-shop-your-way-rewards-mastercard\/\" class=\"ek-link\">Citi Shop Your Way Rewards card<\/a> moves from <a href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/category\/unsung-heroes\/\" class=\"ek-link\">Unsung Hero<\/a> to just Hero, but we&#8217;re approaching it. In addition to holding a card with greater notoriety, holders also saw a new round of targeted offers for online spend through March 14:<br \/><br \/>&#8211; 200,000 Shop Your Way Rewards points after $750 or more in spend (MS Ninja)<br \/>&#8211; 250,000 Shop Your Way Rewards points after $1,000 or more in spend (Jacob)<br \/>&#8211; $50 statement credit after $750 or more in spend (David 99)<br \/><br \/>Yes, these offers stack with the <a href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/03\/wednesday-quad-30\/\" class=\"ek-link\">2024 monthly statement credits<\/a> for grocery, gas, and dining provided of course that you spend in those categories online. What does Citi have to do with gas, grocery, and dining you ask? They&#8217;re a credit card issuer and they want to attract spend on their cards, duh.<br \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Marriott Bonvoy Business card has a best offer sign-up bonus of five free night certificates for up to 50,000 points per night each after $8,000 spend in three months. [insert joke here about overpriced Marriott hotels in Lubbock]<br \/><br \/>I&#8217;m not linking to anything on this one because I hope that you can find someone to give you a referral, so they&#8217;ll earn points on your successful application too. Using a referral is a great networking icebreaker in the miles and points community for those of you looking to expand your network. (Thanks to <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.doctorofcredit.com\/american-express-marriott-bonvoy-business-five-free-night-signup-bonus-50k-each\/\">DoC<\/a>)<br \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/11\/on-the-importance-of-cell-phone-burners\/\" class=\"ek-link\">Having a stable of burner phones and phone numbers<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/08\/looking-at-the-other-wheels\/\" class=\"ek-link\">eminently useful<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/dannydealguru.com\/metro-by-t-mobile-free-moto-g-stylus-40\/\" class=\"ek-link\">DDG<\/a> highlights a great, low cost option for adding a new device to your portfolio: A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metrobyt-mobile.com\/cell-phone\/motorola-moto-g-stylus-5g-2023\" class=\"ek-link\">Moto G Stylus 5G plus a month of service for $40<\/a>. Make sure you activate the phone, and I&#8217;d suggest only leaving it active for the first month then moving to a cheaper service. It&#8217;ll unlock automatically in 180 days.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a nice weekend!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-10-768x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9189\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-10-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-10-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-10.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">The leader of the the pretzel snack-bag mix cabal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDITOR\u2019S NOTE:&nbsp;The feedback I\u2019ve gotten for guest post Saturday has been resoundingly positive. I\u2019ve got a few posts left to publish, but I\u2019m running low.<\/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":[54,170,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-phones","category-quick-hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186","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=9186"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9193,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186\/revisions\/9193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}