I'm wondering if anyone actually does this Mint thing for anything except hitting spending requirements on new cards.

Otherwise, how can the effort be worth it?* I mean, for 25K miles (or 25% more, if using SPG card), you have to:

- Diligently reorder every 10 days for 250 days
- Go through the trouble of spending the coins or taking them to a depository institution, and often waiting for a long time to get them deposited

Is this really worth the equivalent of a few hundred bucks? I've certainly ordered my share for spending requirements, but after that I lost steam because the reward just didn't seem large enough.

Am I missing something or does everyone broadly agree?

*If you use the trick to get past the 1k/10day limit, then I suppose the timing issue goes away but the transport/depositing nuisance remains.