Need some American Airlines miles to top off your account or build up your balance? Here's an easy way to do it this month. American Airlines Eshopping is offering a mystery bonus event. You have to log in or join and click on the button to reveal your deal. I clicked and I was offered 2,000 bonus miles for spending $500 in the mall by 6/30/17.
I usually shop through cash back portals where I earn up to 10% cash back. So if you compare the offers, I would value 2,000 American Airlines miles higher than $50. Especially since I have about 22,000 miles in my American Airlines account right now so this will put me really close to a free domestic airline ticket or even there since you actually earn more than 1 mile per dollar through the portal. I could transfer Starwood points and reach the magic 25,000 mark as well, but hey, if I can leverage some spending and do it without using Starwood points, then that's better.
So I'm directing all my spending this month through the American Airlines shopping portal. I bought my cat food from Petsmart.com, bought new headphones for my son through Apple.com and I bought my replacement yoga pants through Oldnavy.com.
These were all purchases I would make anyway, but now I am leveraging the buying power to fly free. By the way, I'm using my Southwest Airlines credit card to make the purchases since that card offered me double miles for the next 3 months if I spend $500 per month.
That's how we do it at almost FREE family travel.