We didn’t have any new credit card applications in March. We did, however, take a spring break trip to Biloxi, MS and spent a night in New Orleans on the way to Biloxi. Our spending was a little higher as a result of that trip. Since we were still new to points and miles, no points were used on the vacation.
On to the point check!
Jenn spent almost $2,100 on her United Explorer card, which got her to her bonus. She earned about 2300 points on that spend and the 60,000 points on the bonus. Adding that all up she had almost 64,000 points. I spent $2,400 on my United Explorer account and earned 3700 points and a 60,000 point bonus. We had spent around $8,100 to earn those points which were worth about 1.3 cents per point meaning that we had accumulated around $1,950 worth of points on $8,100 in spending for a return of around 24%. That’s a whole lot more than the 1% cash back we used to get with Discover.
We finished the month with 88,400 Citi miles and 149,700 United miles those points were valued at around $3,400.
Newby to Expert Traveler 