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Free & Cheap Travel Gadgets

Free & Cheap Travel Gadgets

There’s no reason to spend lots of money on travel gadgets and gear to lighten the load and keep you organized on the road. It’s easy to find free and cheap alternatives in your kitchen, bathroom, hardware store or office supply store.

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20+ Spring Cleaning Hacks

20+ Spring Cleaning Hacks

Spring cleaning often means debating what to throw out and what to hang on to. Save time and money with these eco-friendly tips to de-clutter your closets, dresser and desk drawers, countertops and bins, with this handy guide to what you can toss guilt-free, what has the potential for re-use, and what should be donated
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How to File Your Taxes for Free

How to File Your Taxes for Free

April 15th will be here before you know it. Here’s how to file your 2020 taxes for FREE online, even get free help preparing the documents, and a couple of low-cost options if you don’t qualify for the tax filing freebies. Note that some free services are not available to homeowners, taxpayers with itemized deductions,
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How to Boost Your Spotify Exposure

How to Boost Your Spotify Exposure

Spotify is one of the fastest-growing streaming services on the planet, with 180 million active users, nearly half of whom are paying subscribers. Every musical artist needs a Spotify presence, so here are the tools and tactics to maximize your exposure and success.

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Travel Tips: Why You Need Travel Insurance

Travel Tips: Why You Need Travel Insurance

Coronavirus, political turmoil, blizzards and snowstorms that shut down airports in winter, hurricanes that shut down airports in summer and fall, computer outages, an injury or family emergency that prevents you from taking the trip you paid for. These are just some of the reasons to have travel insurance.  There are many more. Travel insurance
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10 Ways to Stretch Your Travel Dollars

10 Ways to Stretch Your Travel Dollars

Since you might not have traveled in a while, consider this a quick refresher course for how to stretch your travel dollars. These top ten tips for saving green — dollars — are from Amex Business Travel for business travelers, but they work for leisure travelers as well, at the peak holiday travel time, or
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How to Track Santa with NORAD and Google

How to Track Santa with NORAD and Google

Where’s Santa? Since 1955, the team at North American Aerospace Defense Command, better known as NORAD, has kept track of a certain toy-filled sleigh pulled by reindeer. Curious kids can follow Santa’s route on Christmas Eve, as well as receive updates from the North Pole online at NORAD Tracks Santa. We are told Rudolph’s glowing red
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Scam Alert: Preying on Seniors

Scam Alert: Preying on Seniors

Top scams targeting seniors include identify theft, sweepstakes, home repairs, romance and investments frauds – and the upcoming holiday season is prime time for targeting the elderly. Seniors lose an estimated $2.9 billion each year to financial scams, according to a 2019 Congressional report The vast majority of cases of elder exploitation involve family members,
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How to Avoid Buying a Flood-Damaged Car

How to Avoid Buying a Flood-Damaged Car

Scam Alert. Unfortunately, many cars and trucks flooded in hurricanes and other deep water disasters wind up for sale by unscrupulous dealers to unsuspecting customers. Here’s how to avoid getting soaked by buying a vehicle that is – simply – dangerous to drive. Electronics, including computer chips, hate water Since modern vehicles are heavy on
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Donate Your Wedding Dress to Brides Against Breast Cancer

Donate Your Wedding Dress to Brides Against Breast Cancer

October is National “Donate Your Wedding Dress Month” sponsored by Brides Against Breast Cancer Charity, which supports research and early detection education programs which save lives. Donating your wedding dress gives a second life to your dress and the chance for a low-income bride to get a dress she otherwise could not afford. It also
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