So added up all the hits I've set in motion and will set in motion (will end up spending $152 above what I was planning due to hotel hopping to get all 6 hotel hits, but its worth it).

Roughly speaking, I'm going to probably be around $1000 dollars it would have cost to buy the miles, but a lot of the stuff I bought will be given as gifts and such, and I made a vacation out of hotel hopping in Montreal, so the actual cost is considerably less (I had a real blast in Montreal :-)).

Still coming up at 32 hits though planned (and that's assuming I'll get emiles, balance is at 420 miles; I'm at $23.95 on e-rewards, one survey will push me into the necessary redemption area :-)), need to find four more, plus two more backups to get to that all powerful 36 ...