I am really get slack with keeping on top of this airmiles stuff.
I have to take advantage of some deals at Sobeys this week...
Prime stuffed chicken breasts...$9.99 buy 2 get 7 air miles. (don't know what these are like but they look interesting)
Kraft Handi-Snacks $1.49 buy 3 get 5 air miles.
Pringles Select bold crunch $2.49 buy 2 get 5 air miles.
Coke products case of 12 $4.99 buy $25 get 25 air miles.
Allens apple juice $2.69 buy 2 get 5 air miles.
And...our air miles balance is now 3081! 25 air miles are already showing for my February searches through the airmiles search bar.
I did rack up some miles at Lawtons this week...I bought the Lays Potato Chips buy 4 get 5 miles and Multigrain Tostitos buy 2 get 5 miles...and I got 2 base miles so 17 airmiles in total at Lawton's this week.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
March 12-19th at Sobeys and Foodland!
I am getting slacker as the weeks go by. This week I added to our air miles balance with purchases at Foodland and Sobeys. At Foodland we earned 38 air miles and at Sobeys...the bill shows 71 but it is actually supposed to be 76. (I'm learning that you really need to watch those sponsors!) I did go to customer service and she said that 5 miles will be credited to my account...so I guess I have to be on the look out for that as well. Each air mile this week cost about $1.48 each.
Balance update...my air miles toolbar (and according to the call I placed with them tonight) We currently have 2942 air miles! Yeah! Feb 15 we had 2366! That's 576 air miles in a month! It would be nice to keep that rate up for the next 12 months! We need 5083 to reach our goal!
Balance update...my air miles toolbar (and according to the call I placed with them tonight) We currently have 2942 air miles! Yeah! Feb 15 we had 2366! That's 576 air miles in a month! It would be nice to keep that rate up for the next 12 months! We need 5083 to reach our goal!
Thursday, March 11, 2010
New Platinum AMEX air miles card
...applied earlier this week and find out today with my regular statement that apparently I've been approved. They did try and rip me off with a few miles though which makes my blood boil. We had our car in for repairs earlier this month and the company made the mistake of charging us twice...(paying once is bad enough!!!)...anyway...we informed the car company and the credit is now showing on the AMEX statement...BUT the AMEX people tried to take away more air miles than they should. They took off 20 but it should only be 15.5 to be exact. I just got off the phone with them and they said the adjustments will show on my next statement. I WILL be watching.
Anyway...we went WAY over budget on our AMEX this month and earned a whopping 101 air miles! (Too bad the platinum card didn't kick in until the last transaction!) So my air miles tool bar is now showing a balance of 2660.
I didn't get to Lawton's at all this week. It's been a crappy week. I would like to pick up a few things there tommorrow but don't know for sure about that.
PS. While I was on the air miles site tonight I noticed an advertisement to earn 10 air miles by completing a survey. So naturally I clicked on the site. I ended up doing two surveys and could have done more. If I earned ANY airmiles they are supposed to show up in 30 days. I'm not convinced that I earned any miles though.
Anyway...we went WAY over budget on our AMEX this month and earned a whopping 101 air miles! (Too bad the platinum card didn't kick in until the last transaction!) So my air miles tool bar is now showing a balance of 2660.
I didn't get to Lawton's at all this week. It's been a crappy week. I would like to pick up a few things there tommorrow but don't know for sure about that.
PS. While I was on the air miles site tonight I noticed an advertisement to earn 10 air miles by completing a survey. So naturally I clicked on the site. I ended up doing two surveys and could have done more. If I earned ANY airmiles they are supposed to show up in 30 days. I'm not convinced that I earned any miles though.
Monday, March 8, 2010
March 5-11th at Sobeys
Sobeys has better deals this week as opposed to last week for air miles offers. There are a few things that are of interest to me.
These include:
1. Kraft Cracker Barrel Cheese 300g or 252g $3.99 each buy 2 for 10 air miles
2. Kraft Delissio Flatbread Melt 167-170g $2.46 each buy 2 for 5 air miles
3. Kraft Pourable Salad Dressing 414-475ml $2.99 buy 2 for 5 air miles
4. Christie Cookies $3.89 550g each buy 2 for 10 air miles
5. Kraft Bagel-fuls 283g $2.49 each buy 2 for 10 air miles
6. Christie Thinsations 115-225g $2.49 each buy 2 for 5 air miles
7. Compliments chicken wings 800-908g 11.99 each buy 2 get 8 air miles
8. Kraft singles 500g 2.99 each buy 2 get 10 air miles
9. Cashmere Bathroom Tissue double or ultra double 12/24 rolls $5.99 buy 2 get 10 air miles
As mentioned in the previous post I have already made one trip to Sobeys and did accumulate 47 air miles. I spent $87.39 so each air mile this trip cost ~1.86. I didn't get the cheddar cheese, bagel-fuls, pourable salad dressing, flatbread melts and the Christie Cookies...so I may be able to get 40 more air miles this week from Sobeys...not sure though.
ps.....did manage to get 13 more air miles this week at Sobeys for a total of 60 air miles...don't have the exact breakdown though...I'm getting slack!
These include:
1. Kraft Cracker Barrel Cheese 300g or 252g $3.99 each buy 2 for 10 air miles
2. Kraft Delissio Flatbread Melt 167-170g $2.46 each buy 2 for 5 air miles
3. Kraft Pourable Salad Dressing 414-475ml $2.99 buy 2 for 5 air miles
4. Christie Cookies $3.89 550g each buy 2 for 10 air miles
5. Kraft Bagel-fuls 283g $2.49 each buy 2 for 10 air miles
6. Christie Thinsations 115-225g $2.49 each buy 2 for 5 air miles
7. Compliments chicken wings 800-908g 11.99 each buy 2 get 8 air miles
8. Kraft singles 500g 2.99 each buy 2 get 10 air miles
9. Cashmere Bathroom Tissue double or ultra double 12/24 rolls $5.99 buy 2 get 10 air miles
As mentioned in the previous post I have already made one trip to Sobeys and did accumulate 47 air miles. I spent $87.39 so each air mile this trip cost ~1.86. I didn't get the cheddar cheese, bagel-fuls, pourable salad dressing, flatbread melts and the Christie Cookies...so I may be able to get 40 more air miles this week from Sobeys...not sure though.
ps.....did manage to get 13 more air miles this week at Sobeys for a total of 60 air miles...don't have the exact breakdown though...I'm getting slack!
Interesting comparison...
I finally managed to log into my air miles account to view my transactions. I found it very interesting, but unfortunately I could only view October to February. Anyway...here's what it looked like:
January 110
December 81
November 36
October 99
So in the past month while I have been scouting out the air miles deals I have earned more in just one month than what I earned from October- January!!! In February alone I earned 332 miles as opposed to 326 air miles in 4 months!
We did go to Sobeys today for a quick trip and I did get 47 miles...I will post about it later. We didn't get a chance to pick up everything that I wanted so there will be another trip to Sobeys and a trip to Lawton's yet this week.
January 110
December 81
November 36
October 99
So in the past month while I have been scouting out the air miles deals I have earned more in just one month than what I earned from October- January!!! In February alone I earned 332 miles as opposed to 326 air miles in 4 months!
We did go to Sobeys today for a quick trip and I did get 47 miles...I will post about it later. We didn't get a chance to pick up everything that I wanted so there will be another trip to Sobeys and a trip to Lawton's yet this week.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Base and Bonus Air Miles
So...just to give myself some idea of what I need to be doing in order to reach my goal of 3 'free' tickets for a trip to the sunny south next year I have calculated what I am hoping to accumulate in both base and bonus air miles.
I am hoping that I can purchase around $1000 a month on my AMEX card. I think that that is an attainable goal because I usually budget around $1600 a month on my Visa aerogold. Given that AMEX is not accepted as much as Visa is, I think $600 a month less is realistic.
So, if I do manage to average around $1000 a month on my air miles AMEX card, that translates into 600 base air miles a year. I also hope to collect 30 airmiles a month from the air miles toolbar alone which translates into 360 a year. So in base miles I will have 960 air miles
That means the remainder of my air miles for our trips in 2011 will have to come from these bonus offers. Each free trip costs 2675 air miles, therefore we need 8025 air miles to reach the goal of 3 free trips. We currently have 2647 miles, so we actually need 5378 air miles within the next year to reach the ultimate goal. Now...dividing that number by 52 weeks means that we have to earn on average 103 bonus air miles each week.
That's a little steep, and may not be attainable. May have to look into the platinum AMEX card that they are currently offering until March 14. It costs $50 a year...which is the bad side of it...but there are a few positive things about it. You get 250 air miles on approval and 150 more when you spend $1000 on your card in the first 3 months. PLUS it would mean we would get 1 air mile for every $10 at Lawton's AND Sobey's, and 1 air mile for every $15 everywhere else. So...that would mean over 200 more base miles in a year (it's hard to count the actual number because I don't know how much of the $1000/month will be spent at Lawton's and Sobey's)...plus the bonus 400. So for $50 we get over 600 more air miles. I think I will probably apply for this card.
I am hoping that I can purchase around $1000 a month on my AMEX card. I think that that is an attainable goal because I usually budget around $1600 a month on my Visa aerogold. Given that AMEX is not accepted as much as Visa is, I think $600 a month less is realistic.
So, if I do manage to average around $1000 a month on my air miles AMEX card, that translates into 600 base air miles a year. I also hope to collect 30 airmiles a month from the air miles toolbar alone which translates into 360 a year. So in base miles I will have 960 air miles
That means the remainder of my air miles for our trips in 2011 will have to come from these bonus offers. Each free trip costs 2675 air miles, therefore we need 8025 air miles to reach the goal of 3 free trips. We currently have 2647 miles, so we actually need 5378 air miles within the next year to reach the ultimate goal. Now...dividing that number by 52 weeks means that we have to earn on average 103 bonus air miles each week.
That's a little steep, and may not be attainable. May have to look into the platinum AMEX card that they are currently offering until March 14. It costs $50 a year...which is the bad side of it...but there are a few positive things about it. You get 250 air miles on approval and 150 more when you spend $1000 on your card in the first 3 months. PLUS it would mean we would get 1 air mile for every $10 at Lawton's AND Sobey's, and 1 air mile for every $15 everywhere else. So...that would mean over 200 more base miles in a year (it's hard to count the actual number because I don't know how much of the $1000/month will be spent at Lawton's and Sobey's)...plus the bonus 400. So for $50 we get over 600 more air miles. I think I will probably apply for this card.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
First 'month' with the Air Miles toolbar...
...well actually it was only two days...and it was only one day that I had seen the number of searches and the reward miles. So...I managed 254 February searches which gives me 25 air miles. Apparently the reward miles will appear in my account within 60 days of the end of each month. So I guess they should be there by end of April. :) EASY air miles
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