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Savvy Tip: Forgo the Hotel Room and Get a Whole House
For my sister's birthday, we all migrated to the Big Apple to celebrate in style. She has her own place there, but finding rooms for the rest of us — my parents, my brother, and me, plus our significant others (three couples in total) — presented a bit of a challenge. Staying in Manhattan at any nice hotel is always a pretty costly vacation — especially if you need three separate rooms.
Would You Book Two Flights For One Destination?
Major hubs will be where you'll usually find the most frequent and most direct flights, and often the cheapest, too! Even when residing near a big airport, it doesn't hurt to price-check other origins. If you can inexpensively get to that alternate airport, even purchasing two separate tickets on separate airlines can make your trip cheaper than buying one ticket from home.
Does Abigail Breslin Earn More Allowance Than You Did?
She may hold a place on Forbes' Young Hollywood's Top-Earning Stars list, but Abigail Breslin has to earn her allowance like any other kid. The My Sister's Keeper actress celebrated her thirteenth birthday in April, and in her house that meant her allowance increased by $1. She earns her age in weekly allowance, and the chores she must fulfill for the $13 might sound familiar to what you had to do as a kid.
Biggest Headline of 2008: The End of Wall Street as We Knew It
The business glamour exuded by Wall Street met its demise when one old bank after another collapsed because of bad real estate bets. The debts they owned outnumbered their assets, and that's a recipe for exactly what happened: disaster. Bear Stearns was bailed out back in March, months before the other big banks could no longer fend off failure.
Panic, Manic Monday: What's Up on Wall Street
A long weekend of talks attempting to figure out a way to save Lehman Brothers, one of the country's oldest investment banks, concluded with the bank filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The 158-year-old firm surrendered to failure after midnight last night and the effects could already be seen in this morning's down market. Lehman was left with no other option but bankruptcy after they couldn't find a buyer.
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