It used to be common knowledge that Tuesdays and Wednesdays were the best days of the week to purchase airline tickets. However, a recent Texas A&M study says otherwise. The study revealed that the weekends are actually the best time to make your purchase, and that prices can be discounted up to 5% on Saturdays and Sundays.
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Last week’s heat wave brought me back to the summer that I lived in Delaware between junior and senior year of college. I remember moving in to the house that summer on an uncomfortably hot day. Lugging bins of books, clothing, furniture and all the college essentials from a storage unit across town to the house was no party.
Neither was surviving the brutally hot weather that summer, but we certainly made the best of it. Especially after a very memorable, 98-degree day where we found it particularly difficult to cool down. We had all the windows open, fans running, cold drinks in hand, and still sweating. It wasn’t until hours later that someone noticed the thermostat was set to 90 degrees and the heat had accidentally been switched on.
After that experience, we all became very well-versed in cheap ways to cool down without air conditioning. Here are some of my tips for staying cool and sticking to a budget: [click to continue…]
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