Earn Frequent Flyer Miles Like My Cat
My cat Mojo is cool… Zen even, and he can do this stuff in a snap. He kinda has to, since he sleeps 20 hours a day.
Yet somehow, that lazy furball managed to get a ridiculous amount of FF miles. Seriously, what’s that about? He can fly First Class anywhere in the world and hang out in the finest cafes in Tokyo, where he has many fans.
You might be wondering how Mojo could possibly have earned FF miles. Wouldn’t he need a social security number, or passport or bank account or something? Yes. He would.
How, you ask?
Let’s just say, for the four hours a day that my cat is awake… he is hyperproductive.
Don’t believe me? Here’s a picture:
Mojo in deep thought, planning out his FF strategies.
While the masses are sweating it out in airport waiting areas, he’s relaxing in luxury in an airline lounge. While they’re cramped in Economy seats, he’s living it up in First Class. —Drinking warm milk, watching “Ratatouille,” stretching out in a lay flat bed with blankets to snuggle in. Sly bastard.
How’d he do it?
Well, let’s talk shopping. Mojo hates shopping –especially at the mall. The tile floors are cold, the muzak is atrocious and there’s waaay too many people. Who wants to get sprayed with nasty perfume while making their way to the pet shop for a snack? Screw that. My cat has better things to do with his four hours of awake-time a day.
Pretty sure Tim Ferriss got his 4-hour work-week idea from my cat.
Mojo does all his shopping online. Yeah, I said he was lazy, not stupid.
Airline and Hotel e-shopping malls are where he orders all his fancy hairball-reducing cat food, balls of twine, nail sharpeners, clothes, computers, tv’s, vitamins, squeaky toys and whatever other weird cat stuff he chooses.
The e-malls have all the same stuff he’d buy through a regular site, but when he uses the online shopping portals, he just enters his FF’s and he gets double, triple, quadruple sometimes even more (10+) points for everything he buys.
For instance, he’s planning to learn Spanish soon and oh, lucky day… Rosetta Stone (through the American Airlines e-shopping mall) is offering a special deal of 14 miles per dollar spent (normally it’s 7 miles per dollar spent). A complete language set is $500, so at 14 miles per dollar spent, he’ll be earning 7000 miles in one easy purchase. Snap! He was gonna order those CD’s online anyway.
When X-mas rolls around, he’ll be online shopping at the Sharper Image for stocking stuffers because they’re currently offering 6 miles per dollar spent. If I didn’t already mention it, these shopping portals are FREE and can rack you up some great Airline miles and/or Hotel points.
My cat’s got over half a million airline miles stowed away and a huge hunk of hotel points to boot and he practically earned them all in his sleep.
You can do the same by using the links to the e-shopping portals. Just make sure to enter your FF# when you shop. Don’t have one? No problem. You can sign up for one of the major FF programs (for free) and get your very own FF# in minutes.
And that stuff is only the beginning.
Listen, I know you’re busy. So is my cat… what with all the sleeping, chasing pieces of twine, licking his tail, and what have you. Maybe you’re not into shopping and you just want the most bang for your buck. Well, Mojo does too and he knows damn well that the single best way to rack up tons of miles is to sign up for my newsletter.
After getting his first Rock Your Travel newsletter, he decided to get some bitchin travel credit cards. He’s got awesome credit and thanks to the info I emailed him, he knew exactly which cards would be best for him. Each one gave him a sweet sign up bonus (anywhere from 30,000 miles – 75,000 miles). Just one of those cards alone would earn him enough miles for a free round-trip flight… or three!
Don’t be one-upped by my cat! Sign up for my newsletter below.
NOTE: You don’t have to use a miles card when shopping at a mileage mall but if you do… it’s a win-win.
Mojo also signed up for Airline Dining Programs using his miles cards. Dining Programs? Wait. What? There’s dining programs to earn miles? Yes there are. Meeeoooww. They are also FREE to sign up for and do not require a miles-earning card to sign up. Any credit or debit card will do.
You can check out the various Airline Dining Programs here. Each one allows you to peruse their list of participating restaurants… from way cheap to super fancy-schmancy. My cat prefers schmancy.
Mojo is a miles collecting machine. Don’t get me started on his four-star trip around the world. Don’t believe me?
Here’s some photos to prove it.
Here he is in Italy:
Mojo in Venice, Italy
Of course he’s not in the shot. Duh! Who do you think took it?
And here he is in Amsterdam:
Mojo in Amsterdam
Here he is in Japan. (He was ridiculously popular there)
Mojo, hangin’ with the Harajuku crowd.
Okay, back to miles. If my cat, who sleeps 20 hours a day, can earn these kinds of miles, so can you.
Yeah, that’s right. It could be you wandering through the streets of Venice, eating croissants in the south of France or making friends with sexy cats in Tokyo.
Do yourself a favor and use the links above to start earning miles for all the things you’re buying anyway.
All this stuff is free and could rack you up some serious miles… especially if you use a miles-earning credit card as well. Did I mention signing up for my newsletter will give you the 411 on all the current best miles cards and bonuses? Sweet!
Don’t let my cat have all the fun. Get in on all this stuff now, so you can travel in style as soon as humanly possible.
Trust me, it’ll take way less time than it took my cat. Have you ever tried to type with paws? No amount of auto-correct can fix that shit.
