Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[kristabelle13]

Considering I only went physically into a store 4 times this year. And didn’t do a single Blue Friday. I’m shocked that I got 7500 Airmiles. AND, I’m still waiting on 1500 outstanding Airmiles which I can’t chase til after Dec 31 (mostly those Tuesday BMO offers - hope they post for next year ) — all of my Airmiles were basically grocery items.

That Shell+ program is a real coup. Getting $20 in sparkling water or other things from the store that are often priced better than Thrifty’s. That results in like 44AM. It’s wild. And we don’t even have to go inside! Pandemic win! lol

 

[Debbie]

Where are you seeing the number of airmiles that you earned this year? I can't seem to locate it on the website.

 

[cari12]

My total for the year ended up slightly higher than 2019. This year just over 14,000 miles, last year just under 14,000.
I wasn’t affected by Rexall withdrawing from AM except when it comes to doing 1 more offer for the big promo’s which this latest STB was the first I really could have used that- first time not getting 7 offers done.

 

[ottawamom]

@tinkerone I finally got the nerve to try adding a GC to my grocery offer at Metro. I picked a new (to me) cashier and plopped my card on top of my groceries. At the end of the transaction I said "I'll use AM cash and the balance on M/C". She then replied you want to use all $70, I said yes. The balance of $7 went onto my M/C. No questions nothing. I will use that Metro G/C now to pay those balances when I redeem AM Cash for my regular groceries instead of charging .95 to debit/mc.

I put the value of the G/C into my vacation fund and will continue to put all Cash AM redeemed into that fund. With all the changes at Airmiles and redeeming for tickets etc I'm glad to have the funds under my control. I'll save enough Dream miles for flights but that's it.

 

[marchingstar]

Where are you seeing the number of airmiles that you earned this year? I can't seem to locate it on the website.

view transactions —> filters —> view statements for the last 12 months

 

[ottawamom]

Where are you seeing the number of airmiles that you earned this year? I can't seem to locate it on the website.

Go to view transactions. Change the period of time you are looking at (View statement for) from last 30 days to "since January 1, 2020". Your total will appear at the top of the page.

 

[cari12]

Where are you seeing the number of airmiles that you earned this year? I can't seem to locate it on the website.

Go to transactions and choose “Since Jan 1, 2020”. If you received any refunds for travel you may want to subtract those to get your true earnings this year. (I had 2 hotel refunds due to COVID).

 

[Debbie]

Where are you seeing the number of airmiles that you earned this year? I can't seem to locate it on the website.

Ah, I found the tab. I made about 9600 this year. I'm pretty sure that last year I made over the 10 000, but I'm not sure.

 

[mort1331]

Sorry OT and sorry Mods if not allowed. Doing big clean out. Not sure why but we were holding onto those Incredibles boxes that the magic bands used to come in. I have one that has 4 slots and one that has 2. No charge, so hope its ok to put on here. Just if someone wants and we can meet up in the GTA. Let me know.

 

[marchingstar]

i’m almost surprised that i managed more than 6,000 miles this year, but somehow i did!

i’m definitely down from last year. not quite as down as i could have been, though.

i’ve also been really prioritizing PC points, both because i fit that program and because superstore is a better one-stop-shop for my family. i’ve redeemed about 1000$ worth of those points this year, so that’s something!

 

[Mickey&JoshNut]

Just a reminder to those who like to keep track tomorrow is the day to save your "transactions" on Airmiles for the year to a PDF.

How do you save the transaction list to a PDF?

I am down 000's , but I have not been trying this year. Not even close to getting Onyx. But I think they are carrying over this year?
I have been getting more and more pcpoints. As I have said, lack of AM, both how to collect and where to redeem, and huge increase redemption, just for me at least. Fading fast.

My AM collecting has really gone down this year - I am not driving as much and now that Rexall isn't a partner (earned a lot of AM there). I have also been getting more with PC Points - over $500 of free groceries this year.

 

[ottawamom]

@Mickey&JoshNut ,

Had to figure out what I did last year. This is what I do. Go to your AM account. Bring up the entire year of transactions. Then I right click my mouse. That brings up a bunch of options (one of them is the "print option" I click on print, under destination I have the option of chosing my printer or a PDF. I chose PDF and save it on my computer.

There may be an easier way but that's what I do.

 

[Mickey&JoshNut]

@Mickey&JoshNut ,

Had to figure out what I did last year. This is what I do. Go to your AM account. Bring up the entire year of transactions. Then I right click my mouse. That brings up a bunch of options (one of them is the "print option" I click on print, under destination I have the option of chosing my printer or a PDF. I chose PDF and save it on my computer.

There may be an easier way but that's what I do.

Thank you, that worked!!!!

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

I have collected 12,682 miles for 2020. DH (also me) has collected 5,369 for 2020. I think I am on par for how many miles I would earn in total for a calendar year.

Edit to add: DH was definitely more last year, now that I think about it. He was 9,000+. Pretty sure we were over 20,000 combined.

 

[Debbie]

When I saved this year's airmiles, I found last year's collection.....I'm 2200 AM less this year than last. And I used up 2/3 of the miles that I did earn on product. But the Christmas gift was a BIG hit with the grandson (Playmobil Space Set)

 

[tinkerone]

Just did a check on my account as well. 17,271 AM's this year but I have no idea how that happened. As with most, our shopping has been limited and with cancelation of several vacations a ton of AM's were taken back from credit card charges. Then there is the fact that I have been collecting PC points and have redeemed over $1000 of them just last year. I just don't understand.
Pleasant surprise anyways.

 

[bababear_50]

Since January 1, 2020 Summary - All transactions
Miles collected:
+29,465
How I did that during a Pandemic is beyond me.
I did manage to spend all of them and more
Miles used:
-34,403


I got a call regarding my missing Airmiles today. (Office of the President Airmiles)
Apparently they still have till Jan 27th to post them (purchase made Sept 27 & Sept 28th 2020) , however they will investigate with the sponsor now.
She said she will get back to me next week and gave me a reference file #
Fingers crossed.


Hugs Mel

 

[juniorbugman]

So once again the stand in bear lady is at again.
We always get together for New Years eve with my family and friends but can't this year so I set up my stand in bears to match our photo from last year.


I present to you my New Years Eve party and yes I did have the bears wear masks in another photo. I sent all three of my photos to my friends so that they too could enjoy New Years Eve with us.


I want to wish all my fellow Air Miles Collectors a Happy New Year and a Happy Hogmanay.
My stand in bears can now take a much deserved break until they are needed for our next annual get together which is the Daytona 500 in February.

 

[Disney Addicted]

I'm getting frustrated here, nothing is posting to my account that you're all mentioning, Mastercard I've spent close to $800 as of Monday, nada posted. I bought lottery cards at Shell the first weekend, nada posted for that either. A bunch of AMS transactions, 2 of which were well over $100 and they've either not posted at all or are split into several different amounts, so no coupon triggered there either. I haven't been getting any of the extra targeted offers for Mastercard so that's easy to not track

I thought i could share this in here and it might slip past the moderators for slightly off-colour language (unless one of you reports me) Santa always adds a calendar to the kids stockings and this year the girls asked for a "funny one" that they could put up in the kitchen. Found this perfect one for this year -- our DIL has quite the potty-mouth so this will fit right in
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I love the calendar! It's too funny. I know a couple of people who would have loved that.

Merry Christmas everyone! I thought you all would appreciate my gift from DH - a little Disney at home since we couldn’t do our trip this year!

Very pretty! That was a nice gift.

here's a few pictures of the rest of my family so you can see that we did in fact ALL wear masks. I've added more details to the Christmas thread but pictures are only in here, with my DISfamily

I'm glad you were able to visit with your family. My Dad came over for Christmas Eve dinner and a movie. Then we went to his house Christmas Day. He's by himself so we considering our two houses one house.

My family is happily enjoying the new Nintendo Switch that Santa brought...

What fun! It's been a few days. How's everyone liking it? What games did you get?

I have to share what my sister made / gave me for Christmas. She made me a knitted Bob Ross doll. He was an artist who used to be on PBS and could crank out a picture in about 1/2hour and added a little tree here to make this picture perfect. I also got a gift card from Michaels in the door.
The door frame is a little fairy door from a place called Practical Art. They are online but also operate a booth at the St Jacobs farmers market in Ontario.
Isn't my sister talented?
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That is cute! Awesome skill to be able to knit.

He lives in our backyard. The kids have trained him to run up and down their arms and legs and he LOVES to sit on my son's head and shoulders.

There is a whole Chipmunk/Squirrel community on Instagram and many people in Japan keep them as pets like we keep hamsters

That is great! We used to have chipmunks trained like that at the cottage. It's been decades. We have some out back we feed (along with the squirrels), but with a cat in the house they don't stay here long.

 

[Disney Addicted]

I'm down about 10,000 AM from what I was able to collect in 2019 but I'm happy with my total considering...

Like you @dancin Disney style , I have been putting everything on my CC since the start of all this. I figured I would squeeze out every AM I could.

Just a reminder to those who like to keep track tomorrow is the day to save your "transactions" on Airmiles for the year to a PDF.

Ohh yes, thank you for the reminder. I will go do this right now!