green living, smart spending
Hershey, Penna., is synonymous with chocolate and with its giant amusement park. But you can avoid expensive, crowded Hershey Park and still have a great time, including special exhibits at the Hershey Auto Museum, a butterfly-filled garden and a 4D experience at Chocolate World. Here’s how to enjoy this popular destination and keep your budget from melting through your fingers like warm chocolate.
Once again, Frontier Airlines is offering its all-you-can-fly unlimited passes, one for annual travel, the other just for summer. There’s also a monthly unlimited pass. All you pay are taxes, fees, and a one penny processing fee for each flight.
The big 50th Anniversary season of Saturday Night Live ended on May 17th, so it’s time to start planning for tickets to the 51st season of shows, which begins in September. It’s not easy to get a FREE ticket to the late night shows taped in NYC, including to shows starring Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart
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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 FREE 50th Anniversary Macy’s Flower Show, car-free streets, Whitney
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There are great meal deals and new menu items at national restaurant and fast food chains every week, to help you stretch your strained budget. The best of what’s new includes the first-ever Summer Pass at Dave & Buster’s return of all-you-can-eat at Applebee’s and Golden Corral, Chicken & Waffles are back at KFC, three-course
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Low-cost airline Spirit is upgrading the customer experience with extra legroom seats for an additional price, just like the full-fare airlines. The new, more comfy seats are being installed on planes in June and available for purchase in July across most of the Spirit fleet, with the new seating arrangement on flights starting July 9.
Movies on the cheap – See nine weeks of family-friendly films on the big screen for just $1 per ticket, plus get discounts on popcorn, snacks and drinks. This year’s list includes Spider-Man, Kung Fu Panda and Minions films.
Scam Alert – Beware of a text or email saying you owe money for unpaid toll roads, and threaten penalties including loss of your license. The FBI and several cities and states are warning about the scam – and the warning do not click on the link in the scam text or email, which impersonate
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Get ready for clogged roads and airports. AAA predicts more than 45 million of us will be on the move over Memorial Day weekend, the largest number in 20 years, and more than one million more than last year. Not surprisingly, nearly everybody will be traveling by car – more than 39 million of us – also an increase of one million compared with last year, and also a record.
Epic Pass for the 2025/26 ski and snowboard season is on sale now at the lowest price of the year, and include free passes for friends and family. Prices increase on May 26, and you lose the free passes.