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So it is currently December 2021 and back in January I signed up for the Southwest Rapid Rewards program and since then I have accumulated 124,000 points. Just a little bit over and 50,000 came from the initial sign up bonus and then another 30,000 came from meeting a threshold of spending so much within the first three months and after that is where the remainder come from.
I was looking through their website and I was like where can I find maybe like how much I’ve earned per month if you go into your account and look there’s a section on the right hand side that shows you the amount of rewards you currently have and this is where I’ve got the amount of 124,181 and if you look right below that number there’s a Rapid Rewards points with an arrow. If you click that it’ll take you off of your current page going to the Southwest website. I was like that’s not what I want and if you go right below it you’ll see the See More Details and Redeem. That might have something I want to look at and so i clicked on it and i was like yeah this, I’ve seen this before. This has details of how to earn your points. It has the rewards program details and it kind of lists out how many points you get for each dollar spent on Southwest purchases, hotels, car rentals and other items like that and how many points you get on your anniversary depending on which card you actually have. Different cards have different amount of points that they give you on your anniversary and one of the reasons they actually give you those points is because there’s a a fee associated with actually having the card. Then if you look it kind of gives you more of the benefit.
Sounds like none of this is what I’m looking for but then I looked over here and there was a see rewards history I was like that that’s exactly what I’m looking for and here it was. It breaks it up by the different points you earn and gives you a total for the month and so you can go month by month and see what you’ve gotten.
So I signed up for this card in January they processed it in February and so it goes back to March as far as being the first statement that you can look at. So if we go back and look through this past year back in March we can see that I earned 3,036 points. There’s a few months where I actually did earn some points that gave me 2x but here in the first month it shows you the new card member bonus and there’s the 50,000 points that i got and gives you a total so I had 53,000. If we jump over to April it shows that we got 4,508 points. These are just earned on purchases that didn’t qualify for additional points. If we look at May of 2021 we got 6,592 and by this point it shows you the new card member bonus this 30,000 points is the points you earn when you actually spend that threshold within the first three months and so that gives us for this month a total of thirty six thousand five hundred ninety two. We look at June we got five thousand one hundred and twenty one. July six thousand one hundred and forty six. August three thousand two hundred and ten. In September we got four thousand two hundred and sixty one and October we got 4,736. If you look month by month it is breaking up in more detail as the months go by and I’m not sure why that’s doing that. Maybe they’re getting better on their reporting the points and then November we got 5,274 for our normal purchases and then 57 for two times points for select streaming. We had the same services throughout all these months and so I don’t know if that’s just a feature that they added within this time period that gave us these extra bonus points but the total was 5,331.
So that takes us through 2021 and what we’ve gotten so far. If you want to keep going along with this journey with me and just kind of seeing how many points we’re getting and what we’re going to do with it we have a trip coming up where we’re actually going to use these points and fly out to Arizona and take a family trip and go see family. So that’ll be fun and we’ll actually get to go through that process of taking these points and using them and you can watch us as we do that.
So if you’re interested in doing this yourself there is a way to sign up. I’ve got a link in the description below and if you also want to get some bonus points additional to your initial sign up they do have a way where you when you refer people Southwest are doubling the amount of points that they are giving for each referral from 10,000 points to 20,000 points. So you too can get it, I think it goes through 2022 of June so you need to get on that if you actually want to earn any of those additional bonus points.
So if you want to sign up there are four different cards you can sign up for for the Southwest card. There’s the priority credit card, the premier credit card, the plus credit card and then the business credit card. I believe we signed up for the premiere and that is where we got the total of 80 000 bonus points last year.
Thank you so much for going through this with us. We are going to be going through more things like this going forward. I am a certified public accountant and I love talking about anything money related. Thanks so much for making it this far in the video. If you enjoyed it please hit that subscribe button and the thumbs up as well and I will see you next time.
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Personal 2021 Southwest Bonus Points Revealed for the Chase Credit Card.
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