The Barclay's website doesn't give you a "You've spent $X,000 this year" number, so I figured that number was unknowable until you got the 10,000 miles of status with US Air. I didn't think I actually spend enough to hit the $25k requirement.

Well, I was wrong. I figured out how to run a report in Mint to show how much spend I've had on each card.

So I screwed up BIG this year. I made the mistake of splitting my purchases over two credit cards: my US Air and my Discover Card. Running that report I mentioned above and I'm only about $1k away from the $25k if all of my purchases had been on one card and I have two expensive work trips coming up! I run all of my work expenses through my personal cards, so this mostly isn't even $25k of my own money!

Well, strategy change now. I'm not going to spend extra, but I'm going to direct all of my spending that isn't in the Discover 5% cashback category onto the US Air card. I just might make it to $25k by end of 2012.

Do you track your spending on these types of cards to make sure you hit the status mark? If so, how?