Points and miles beginner’s guide: Maximizing household spending

So far, we’ve racked up thousands of miles with program sign-up bonuses, taking surveys, using rewards shopping portals, requesting insurance quotes, credit cards sign-up bonuses, maximizing credit card-spending, and business credit cards.

We’re on to bonus point offers in everyday spending categories. Whether it’s your cable, satellite, gas, or even mortgage, there are tons of companies offering bonus points when you purchase these services. Below is a comprehensive list of bonus point offers in various categories.

Cable/Satellite Subscriptions

DirecTV

American Airlines: 25,000 AAdvantage miles for new DirecTV service.

Southwest: Earn 3,900 points with DirecTV

Energy Companies

Energy Plus

American Airlines

Earn 10,000 American miles after 2 months of service, plus 2 miles per $1 on your bill.

Southwest

Earn 15,000 bonus points after 2 months of service, plus 2 points per $1 on your bill.

Rapid Rewards Credit Card members receive 2,500 additional bonus points after 2 months of service, plus an additional 1 point per $1.

United Airlines

Earn 10,000 bonus miles, plus 2 miles per $1 on your bill. MileagePlus Credit Card members earn an additional 1 point per $1.

Georgia Natural Gas

Delta

Earn 2,500 Skymiles for signing up as a new Georgia Natural Gas customer. Plus earn 2 miles for every $1 spent. Use promo code DELTA25.

Gexa Energy

Gexa Energy once had a partnership with both American Airlines and United, offering plenty of options to earn miles on energy bills. Now, there is only one partnership left. 

You can earn 15,000 AAdvantage miles for switching to Gexa Energy. Additionally, you’ll earn 2 miles per $1 spent on your energy spending. Unfortunately, this is only available to residents of Texas.

Mortgage

Chase

Chase offers up to 75,000 Ultimate Rewards points when you get a new home mortgage.

Real Estate

Miles From Home

Miles From Home partners with American Airlines so you can earn miles for buying, selling or financing your home.

American Airlines: Earn points for buying, selling, financing your home, or moving.

• Sell a home for $250,000 = 50,000 AAdvantage miles
• Buy a home for $250,000 = 50,000 AAdvantage miles
• Combined services = 100,000 AAdvantage miles

Travel

Car Rental, Shuttle, and Car Services

American Airlines

Delta

Southwest Car Rentals

Southwest Ground Transportation

United Airlines

Magazines

American Airlines

With American Airlines, you can earn up to 5,000 miles for various online and print magazine subscriptions.

Delta SkyMiles

If you’re in the market for a new magazine subscription, you can earn up to 5,000 SkyMiles.

Southwest Rapid Rewards

Southwest doesn’t offer the most points on magazine subscriptions. The highest bonus is 3,600 points for a Fool subscription. However, considering Southwest Rapid Rewards is a revenue-based rewards program, your points can go a lot further.

United MileagePlus

United offers up to 2,600 miles for new magazine subscriptions.

Flowers

1-800 Flowers

American Airlines

AAdvantage members can earn up to 20 miles per $1 spent at 1-800 Flowers.

Southwest Rapid Rewards

Southwest Rapid Rewards members can earn 7 points per $1 spent on flowers.

United MileagePlus

MileagePlus members earn 15 miles per $1 spent at 1-800 Flowers.

FTD

American Airlines

If you’re in the market for flowers, FTD and American Airlines have you covered. You can earn up to 20 miles per $1 spent through this partnership.

Delta Skymiles

Delta SkyMiles members earn 20 miles per $1 on flowers at FTD.

United MileagePlus

United MileagePlus members earn 20 miles per $1 at FTD.

Teleflora

American Airlines

Teleflora keeps it nice and simple. American AAdvantage members will earn 750 miles for every order of flowers.

United MileagePlus

MileagePlus members earn 750 miles per Teleflora order.