Who else is hopefully wrapping this up this month?
Just checked my January statements for Southwest cards. Excited to see the 50,000 welcome bonus points on each. Really neat to see it work.
I used Redbird to generate 5,500. Paid Mortgage, Property Taxes, a few other bills, and sent the balance back to one of the cards. My kids thought I was crazy as they witnessed one of the transactions.
Premier and Plus Card: 108,299 points
Transfer from Choice Hotels: 1800 points
Total: 110,099 points
An interesting note on Choice: I had 990 points left from somewhere/sometime that were going to expire 12/31. With the 30% bonus sale on Choice points, I was going to purchase just enough points for $33 that when added to the 8,000 bonus would generate 12,000 points, and just throw away the 990 points. However, part of my calculation was the points earned by the purchase itself with the Choice credit card which generates even more points than I thought. Anyway, the Choice statement closed on me before the purchase converted to points. I was left with something like 12, 940 points. Since I would have less than 12,000 after 12/31, I panicked somewhat and decided to go ahead and purchase enough points to exceed 18,000 and convert 6,000 in 2014 and 12,000 in 2015. To my surprise, the Choice points say they take 4 to 6 weeks to convert to Southwest points as was previously mentioned in another post. I think I may end up getting the converted 2014 points in 2015 and still have 12,000 plus points lingering in my Choice account which I can either convert or not. Just something to keep in mind.