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The change in seasons is a good time to give your vehicle some care and attention to prepare for colder weather. These common sense car care tips can help prevent costly breakdowns and even accidents. Schedule a Check-Up Take your vehicle to a trusted repair facility to perform any needed maintenance before heading out. Oil
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The fall season brings many wonderful things, including technicolor leaves and cooler temperatures. But it also brings autumn driving hazards, including wet leaves, fog and frost. Here’s how to anticipate and keep you and your passengers safe in potentially dangerous fall driving situations, whether it’s your daily commute or shopping expedition, or a weekend getaway.
Since our mental health is connected to our physical well-being, these FREE fitness apps will help motivate you at home or on the road. They offer exercises including yoga, measure your walks and hikes, and meditation to help you sleep more restfully when day is done.
Some simple daily exercises and on-slope tips especially for those of us 55+ can prevent aches, pains and worse during snow season. Here are some work-out suggestions and more to help you get fit now and stay fit and injury-free during the season.
Closets and dresser drawers bulging? Clear the clutter and get paid for recycling things you no longer want or use. Recycling is a win-win, because is reduces waste and compensates you for your good deed helping the planet.
You might want to sleep with the lights on in one of these 100+ historic hotels in the USA reported to have friendly ghosts. From spooky hotel tours and spirited stories to real life hauntings, these members of the Historic Hotels of America are worth visiting any time of year, especially around Halloween.
Now that gas and diesel prices are higher than ever because of the ongoing US war on Iran, it’s important again to save money at the pump. You can do that if you tune up, slow down, lighten up, and use money-saving apps to find the least expensive gas near you. Here’s how: How to
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This is a great time to be in NYC, for Off-Broadway Week 2-for-1 tickets, fall foliage in parks and gardens, ongoing exhibits commemorating the 25th Anniversary of 9/11, the annual Corn Maize in Queens, ice skating rinks re-opening for the season, FREE Halloween events, Archtober architectural events, the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree arrives, and more.
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Banned Books Week, Oct. 4-10, celebrates classic and popular novels, and protests restricting public access to well-written books providing knowledge, information and diverse perspectives. This year, the final day of Banned Books Week is being celebrated as Let Freedom Read Day, to help defend books from censorship and to stand up for the library staff,
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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. Including – McDonald’s Monoply returns, Applebee’s expands its 2 for $25 appetizer/main menu, Burger King upgrades its chicken nuggets, new value meals at TGIFridays, Olive Garden brings back the never-ending
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