green living, smart spending
There are great meal deals at national restaurant and fast food chains every week, to help you stretch your strained budget. Top new deals include Olive Garden BOGO dinners, new spring menu at Friendly’s, $6.99 footlongs and other daily deals at Subway, new smashed burgers at Huddle House, $9.99 meal deals at Farmer Boys, new
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Save the green in your wallet along with our great green globe, with these tips for green living on the cheap at home or on the road, on Earth Day and year-round.
The peak holiday driving season is getting underway, which often means clogged roads and traffic jams. Road rage is a driving danger, along with drunk driving and distracted driving such as texting while driving. These tips will help you avoid aggressive drivers, or become one yourself.
Here are a dozen-plus dozen spots in New York City and the rest of NY State where you can enjoy acres of these blooming beauties through mid-May. Many for FREE in public parks, so you can enjoy cherry blossoms on the cheap.
Like most of you I’m already looking forward to the 2025/26 skiing and snowboarding season. There are changes to multi-resort passes, and new lifts and terrain on the horizon. Here’s what we know now.
Closets and dresser drawers bulging from your recent purchases? Clear the clutter and get paid for recycling things you no longer want or use. Recycling is a win-win, because is reduces waste and compensates you for your good deed helping the planet.
The decision by low-cost Avelo Airlines to contract with the Dept. of Homeland Security to fly deported immigrants out of the USA to locations overseas and also within the USA is generating calls to boycott the airline.
Reminder that the final deadline to have a Real ID for air travel and entry to federal buildings is May 7, 2025. A compliant Real ID will be required by anybody 18 or older to board a plane, enter a federal building or a military base, even a nuclear power plant. Here’s how to get one.
Now that my hometown is back on top of the must visit destination list, here’s how to enjoy NYC on the cheap. Things to do include FREE museum admission, a new museum exhibits honoring Flaco the owl and 100 years of the New Yorker magazine, the 50th Anniversary Macy’s Flower Show and the 125th Anniversary
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Many of us are thinking about a warm, beautiful beach somewhere, with sparkling turquoise water and equally sparkling sunsets. But where? And when? These have been voted as best beaches, including Europe, Asia, the Caribbean and the the USA.