Seven hits today...

The good news is, I did seven hits today.  If all eight credit (and they should, since none of them is a "controversial" hit), that's 10,000 miles at just under 0.6 per mile.

Biscoff: Anna's sampler for $8.47, plus $5.00 in shipping (subtracting out $.40 for the value of the SPG points I earned on my credit card).  See Beltway's thread (the link is in a previous post) for the cheapest hit.

1-800-FLOWERS was also kind enough to sell me a set of Pierced Ribbon Votives.  I have no idea what they are, but they could be elephant dung (I'm pretty sure they're not.) and I would have taken the hit for $13.99.  Beltway's thread.  Edited to Add: There is at least one post in the FT thread where 1800F posted the hit for a date before the promo began, even though it was ordered after the promo.  I'd wait a week on this one.

I have my Visa Debit card from last year and that got me a free hit today.  It counts as free if I am purchasing something that I would have purchased otherwise, since there is no additional outlay.

I gave in and did my first hotel transfer, as well.  850 SPG points became 850 miles, which is a net loss based on 3c per mile.  A $25.50 hit this early in the game hurts, but I'm pretty sure that I would have needed this one to push me over the top, anyway.

Freebies:

Here's where it gets good: I got three free hits (well, virtually free, anyway).

1) I downloaded the US Airways Toolbar and did three searches to earn a mile.  Possibly the easiest hit in the history of this promotion.

2) I used Points.com to transfer four AA miles into a US mile.  I value AA miles at two cents each, so that was an $.08 hit.

3) I transferred my e-Rewards into US Airways miles.  No cost there.  The thread I linked to describes both the e-Rewards and e-Miles programs.

Tomorrow gets more difficult.  I got through the easy stuff and will have to start making decisions about which hits to take chances on (Will DFW SuperShuttle give points for a no-show again?) and which ones are worth the cash.