I am considered by my family as a hoarder because I don't use miles for family trips. We fly coach, and I can buy a ticket for less than the equivalent value in miles. So I still have almost 200k of the AA "original" miles, and almost 1 million Marriott points, etc. On the other hand, I have lifetime earnings of about 3 million Marriott points, 3 million AA miles, and probably 2 million other points/miles between all the programs. And I currently have only about 2.5 million between all those programs. So I have used them when there was a good value.