u/Chilabo

We have a household account with 4 members (2 adults and 2 kids), with about 7,500 Avios in each account, about 30k total.

No plans to use these, and they are all set to expire in a couple of months, so I am trying to figure out how to extend the expiration, or even just offload them somehow.

I know I can use the shopping portal, but that's sort of a pain, logging in and out for 4 different accounts, and then buying things we don't want or need.

Someone mentioned aviosforthoughts.com, but the link to sign up seems dead. Plus, this would only be for the adults -- apparently kids don't qualify.

We could also transfer Chase UR to the 2 adult accounts, but again,that leaves the kids' accounts dormant and still open to expiration.

Any ideas?

EDIT: I should have mentioned, I am in the US, where it seems to be much more difficult to earn Avios through many of the methods folks suggested below. Thanks!

I have about 8k personal Avios, and about 30k in our Household account. I've never used them, but don't want to lose them.

Got a message from BA that my 8k Avios will expire in 5 months. But when I log into my account (on desktop), I cannot find any mention of an expiration date. Do they deliberately hide it somewhere?

Can I simply extend the life of my points by pushing in 1k UR from Chase to BA? How long will the expiration date extend?

And will that also extend the life of the Household pool?