Welcome to the board!

A very common question many of us have ask too.

There are many answers to your question. Mine is to just wait and over time things seem to grow. Many credit card providers will give points in a particular program for just signing up and perhaps one purchase. This is the same for the long distance phone companies. My Points, Greenstamps and many other programs also offer chances to get ff miles. Some online brokers do the same. The point is that there are numberous way to get miles in addition to flying, renting cars and staying at hotels.

There also ways to transfer some points from one program to another, most of these are to costly, in the loss of points to be worthwhile.

If you are handy with the computer, you might try the search funtion on this board, as this topic has been covered over and over.

Maybe some more skilled than I will reply and give you the links to some of the previous posts.

Again welcome to the board.

ranles

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