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GOING AWAY FOR THE HOLIDAYS?

If you are going away for the holidays this year, here are three great websites to help you save money and avoid headaches: AutoSlash.com is the best site for car-rental deals. This site helps you save in three ways: It searches multiple vendors to find your best rental option, digs for coupons, and monitors offerings [...]

THIS WEEKEND IS ONE OF THE BEST TIMES OF THE YEAR TO SHOP ONLINE

On and around the weekends before and after Halloween, some merchants tout “early Black Friday” sales with select “door busters” (like off-brand electronics marked down about 30%) aimed at early-bird shoppers. Don’t get too excited. Often these items are the sites’ standard weekly specials, rebranded to fit the holiday-shopping season, says the deal site BradsDeals.com. [...]

YOUR COSTUME IS THE WINDOW TO YOUR SOUL

Personally, I think the costumes we choose to wear on Halloween say a lot about who we really are, or, at least, want to be. If a guy is wearing a devil costume, I don’t trust him. He’s saying, “I’m wearing my inner bad on the outside today.” Devil costume guys always seem to be [...]

NOT ALL OF THE HALLOWEEN CANDY GOES TO TRICK-OR-TREATERS

If you hold back some of the candy you bought for Halloween trick-or-treaters, you’re not alone. According to the National Confectioners Association’s Halloween survey, four in ten adults admit that they purposely keep candy, instead of giving it all away to revelers. In fact, nearly 1/3 of adults admit that they will pocket at least [...]

PEOPLE WHO EAT CANDY ARE THINNER THAN THOSE WHO DON’T

Here are a few good reasons to go ahead and break into that Halloween candy you’ve set aside for this weekend. Louisiana State University Agricultural Center researchers studied more than 15,000 adults and found that those who ate candy (a little over one ounce a day on average) tended to have smaller waists, a lower [...]

WHAT ARE THE MOST POPULAR HALLOWEEN COSTUMES THIS YEAR?

As shoppers continue to watch their pennies, thrift shops and discount stores are pulling out all of the stops to boost their affordable Halloween costumes and accessories for cost-conscious customers. Even though Halloween falls on a Monday this year, Halloween spending is expected to grow 11.7% fro 2010, to $5.9 billion, according to industry research [...]

UNICEF IS GOING HIGH-TECH

Remember when kids used to trick-or-treat for UNICEF around Halloween and collect boxes full of change? Well those cute little UNICEF boxes have gone high-tech this year. Kids can now ask you to scan the barcode on the side of the box with your smartphone and donate any amount on the spot. No camera phone? [...]

WHAT’S THE BIGGEST THING YOU’VE EVER APPROPRIATED?

October 12th is Columbus Day, the official day commemorating the landfall of Christopher Columbus in the new world on October 12, 1492, thus beginning the systematic theft of native occupied lands in America by the European-born white man. In honor of Columbus Day, consider the topic, “What’s the Biggest Thing You’ve Ever Appropriated?” You could [...]

PRICEY FARES AWAIT HOLIDAY FLIERS THIS YEAR

Flying over the holidays is going to cost more this year. And the longer you wait to book, the pricier it’s likely to get. The average domestic airfare for the weeks of Thanksgiving and Christmas is $383, 4% higher than last year, according to Expedia. Considering the economy is sputtering and people still can’t find [...]

WOULD YOU LET YOUR KIDS HANDLE A BLOWTORCH?

If the idea of letting your children play with a blowtorch is absurd, then letting them handle fireworks and sparklers should be too. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission chairman Inez Tenebaum, sparklers burn at the same temperature as blowtorches: 2,000 degrees. The CPS reports that, in a time frame as narrow as the [...]