160. 2025 Year in Review: The Cards We Opened and Our Points-Fueled Trips

Points Talk®: Your Travel Dreams, Made Possible by Points

Alex, Pam and Jess

Education, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, How To

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

What were the highlights this year for award travel for the Points Talk Squad? In this episode, Alex, Pam, and Jess take you through their year of points and miles. The Squad walks through their card openings, closures, and the strategies they used to earn millions of points.

They also share how they used those points for family vacations, girls' trips, and more. From Bora Bora to Iceland to Japan, the Squad discusses the destinations they traveled to and how they turned their points into memorable experiences. Tune in hear who opened nine new credit cards, who earned almost 2 million points, and who took 17 trips this year.

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0:00.0	As 2025 comes to an end, we thought you'd like to hear about the cards we opened this year,
0:04.7	the cards we canceled, and even better the trips we used points of miles on. Hold on to your seats.
0:10.0	2025 has been an incredible year. Welcome to Points Talk. We are three moms who've discovered
0:16.0	how to leverage credit card welcome offers to get hundreds of thousands of dollars of travel expenses for nearly free.
0:22.8	We've used credit card points of miles to take vacations to places like Hawaii, Paris, Greece, Maldives,
0:28.6	Japan, and so much more. And the best part? We each still have 800 plus credit scores.
0:34.6	Imagine being able to take the vacation of your dreams for nearly free. It's totally
0:38.9	possible and we're here to show you how. Hey, I'm Alex. And I'm Pam, Alex's mom. And I'm Jex. Let's Talk
0:50.0	Points. Today we're talking all about 2025 and our adventures on points in miles. It has been a
0:57.2	great year with earning credit card points and we've each been earning and burning those points
1:03.7	to take some amazing trips. I earn and burn more than these two. They're more on like the
1:09.2	hoarder side of things, but I'm working on them.
1:12.1	And regardless, we can't wait to share it all with you. So first, we are going to kick it off with
1:16.8	cards that we have opened so far this year and the points that we have earned. I'm not going to
1:22.4	lie. I have an extensive list this year. Shocker. Shocker. I think this is you every year, though.
1:30.5	Like every year just like, I'm going to take it easier.
1:32.5	I'm not going as crazy.
1:33.7	And then she can't be stopped.
1:36.5	She always has the most.
1:38.7	But listen to who does the earn and burn.
1:42.1	We know why she needs to have the most because she's burning those points. I am burning them so fast. Um, so it's, okay, I'm going to tell you how many I opened and I'm going to tell you how many Ted opened and I opened much more than him. We kind of take turns like who's going harder every year. So like last year he opened by he,
2:04.6	I mean me, but you know, he in quotes opened more cards than I did. And now this year I've opened a lot
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