{"id":2360,"date":"2012-06-03T22:52:44","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T04:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=2360"},"modified":"2013-01-04T22:02:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T05:02:08","slug":"confessions-of-a-travel-points-hoarder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=2360","title":{"rendered":"Confessions of a Travel Points Hoarder"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve seen them – episodes of the grossest kinds of atrocities, people buried in mounds of their belongings, garbage, or both. I’m a bit of a packrat, but thankfully I don’t have that kind of problem.\u00a0 My problem is of a slightly different variety. \u00a0I hoard travel points and I have a problem.<\/p>\n

I hoard frequent flyer miles<\/a> and points.\u00a0 I can’t get enough of them.\u00a0 Like a garage-saler that picks things up just because they’re cheap, I spend my free-time, and (shamefully) some of my not-so-free time accumulating points I may never use.<\/p>\n

I am not ashamed.\u00a0 I wrote a few days ago about a high-school teacher of mine who picked up pennies while jogging.<\/a>\u00a0 The truth is that the fools are those who let the opportunities pass them by.<\/p>\n

I had always been a point collector, but I crossed a line about a year and a half ago when I started “risking” my credit score to get American Airlines points.\u00a0 I know, I sound like a junkie who shared needles to get a high, and that’s actually another good analogy because I pretty much am a junkie, and I do get high…<\/p>\n

But it’s hardly been a dangerous habit.\u00a0 My credit score was 799 about a year ago when I started tracking it with CreditSesame.com<\/a>\u00a0 In its “depths,” as I zealously applied, it sunk to 767, and now I’m comfortably floating around 788.\u00a0 My wife’s has followed a similar pattern.<\/p>\n

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In the meantime, oh the things that I’ve done.<\/p>\n