Not sure if this truly belongs in this thread, but I found it humorous. If you look up "Flyertalk" on Urban Dictionary, there's this definition:

written by one "Randy Petersen."

http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...term=flyertalk

Hold the front page :-)

Get a Bottle of Tide Laundry Detergent for Free from Walmart (after cash back)

http://lechicgeek.boardingarea.com/g...art-cash-back/

The 'Fat Walletization' of the P&M world....

Tide's a rather expensive detergent and all.

But can I funnel the purchase through MyPoints and end up with another 200 United miles or something for the transaction?

BoardingArea is finally being cleaned up with at least one article — and people are still agitated.

Instead of going against the Tide, does anyone not realize that it all comes out in the wash in the end?!?If your FlyerTalk name was bleachmouse; perhaps.

In all seriousness, it probably is possible, as Wal*Mart is a shopping partner of MyPoints. I am a member of MyPoints; but just like other programs, that one has devalued over the years.

You could also use your credit card — regardless of whether it gives cash back or miles or points — to take advantage of the deal by purchasing that laundry detergent. Aside from the cost of sales tax, it is like getting a bit of free money or free miles or points...

Except it doesn't quite all come out, and I'm one of many people with sensitive skin who has discovered that there are only a handful of laundry soaps out there that don't cause skin irritation. (Tide is on my 'good' list.)

I'm actually okay with the free Tide sorts of blog posts if there's a way you can stack those promos to get some travel benefits out of them, hence the Mypoints reference. Not so much if it comes down to the 'and then you can use it as your credit card spend to trigger bonus points- check out my affiliate link for the Red Lion Inns credit card' sort of slight stacking.

I've found Seventh Generation detergent (and softener) does really well with my skin, which is also very sensitive to detergents. Whether it's really due to the higher amount of "natural" ingredients or not, it just agrees with my skin. And I like the lavender & eucalyptus scent which is more subtle than the usual brands' heavily perfumed scents.

I'm a fan of Le Chic Geek though...her content does go beyond just the pure P&M stuff which to me is a feature not a bug (though being a guy I skip the occasional posts about women's clothing and such). And I have a lot of overlap with her geek-type interests in movies, TV shows, etc.

I don't understand the "point" of this blog other than to engage in arguments with people who happen upon his blog b/c Randy decided to put it in our faces on the front page of BA. I've never seen a more hostile comments section on a travel blog and that includes TBB who actually encourages that kind of back and forth.

His interview on CNN provided minimal information other than showing off that he flys for "free" on points by opening CCs. Which CCs should a newbie open? How many at a time or in a year? You won't find any of that in the interview or on his website so I would argue the interview was actually hurtful to the viewers.

My vote is for BA to replace his blog with DoC or Drew. Anyone with me?

Newbies...

And no one is with you.

TPOL is simply the worst blog on BA, which in itself is quite a feat. It's aggressively awful. I would actually support replacing it with nothing.

Agreed. He should change his tag line (which in and of itself is awful) so it reads "Living doesn't have to suck, but my blog does."

But then we'd miss that dope post about "I thought I cancelled my card?!!?!!" that objectively added nothing of value to BA... A feat in and of itself

The back and forth on "MPX Purchases will/won't earn 5x on Amex Plat" is fairly amusing...

What really mystifies me are all of the BA bloggers that publish weekly digest or "recap" posts. This is shameless filler, but that's not even the most obvious problem. Nobody cared about your slap-dash, barely coherent word-diarrhea posts the first time around, and we REALLY don't care about them the second time.

You're wrongly assuming that the post was meant for you? Its all about pageviews and rankings... luckily the advertisers are double checking the quality of the pageviews and paying very little for such page impressions.