{"id":2512,"date":"2014-03-15T07:35:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T14:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/giddyforpoints\/?p=2512"},"modified":"2014-09-19T10:44:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T15:44:04","slug":"week-2-milemadness-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/giddyforpoints\/2014\/03\/week-2-milemadness-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2 #milemadness Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have been following #milemadness, <a href=\"http:\/\/saverocity.com\/travel\/themanufactured-spending-tournament\/\" target=\"_blank\">it is a tournament among some bloggers <\/a>to see who can manufacture the most points given certain spending restrictions. Saverocity and the Frequent Miler are the moderator and judge respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Well my week 2 was definitely NOT one to brag about and was not as great as <a href=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/giddyforpoints\/2014\/03\/milemadness-1st-week-update\/\" target=\"_blank\">my week 1 results<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I did get to max out my Amex Blue Preferred card which got me 6% at grocery stores.<\/p>\n<p>I also purchased Amex giftcards by first going though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topcashback.com\/ref\/utbusigal\" target=\"_blank\">TopCashBack<\/a> to get 3% on my purchase and using my Barclays Card which got me 2pts per $. When I got them in the mail, I off loaded them using several methods including Amazon Pmts and buying Vanilla reloads and Visa Cards.<\/p>\n<p>My week 2 unofficial results in earnings are:<br \/>\n10,068 Barclays pts<br \/>\n2,499 UR points<br \/>\n2,001 Delta miles<br \/>\n3,016 United miles<br \/>\n$454 cash back<br \/>\nI spent a total of $16,642 and my total fees were $142<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;m going to keep up with everyone else, I&#8217;ll need to find more creative ways to manufacture my spend! I&#8217;ve been hoping that my Amex cards would give my something in &#8220;My Offers Tab&#8221; to work with but nothing that I could churn thus far.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some 2nd week updates from other competitors<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/milesabound.com\/milemadness-day-14-second-week-summary\/\" target=\"_blank\">MilesAbound<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.milespointsandmaitais.com\/manufactured-spending-madness-day-14-week-2-totals\/\" target=\"_blank\">Miles, Points, &amp; MaiTais<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saverocity.com\/bighabitat\/3-15-13-milemadness-week2-time-battle\/\" target=\"_blank\">BigHabitat<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hackmytrip.com\/2014\/03\/milemadness-mid-month-update-100000-miles-7-days\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=milemadness-mid-month-update-100000-miles-7-days&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hackmytripfeed+%28Hack+My+Trip%29\" target=\"_blank\">Bengali Miles Guru<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have been following #milemadness, it is a tournament among some bloggers to see who can manufacture the most points given certain spending restrictions&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[193,192,261],"tags":[517,520],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - 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