Home for Christmas - Living Better

by mary2

The Motto of The Dollar Stretcher is "Living Better...for Less" I can really get behind the "Living Better" part. And, for that matter, I can get behind the "For Less" part, too. I love a bargain!

Full Disclosure: I am Mrs. Dollar Stretcher. That's right, I am Gary Foreman's wife. Since 1974 he's been showing me how to live frugally. Since 1974 I've been showing him how to spend it

I must state at the outset that this blog post IS NOT AIMED AT MY DAUGHTER--the away-at-college, now-all-grown-up one who can figure things out herself and, besides, if she doesn't know how to do something it must be because her mother did not do a good job teaching her while she was young . 

No, this is aimed at someone who might happen to be needing to make travel arrangements to fly somewhere, say home for Christmas  or something like that. For those people, here are a few of my favorite travel sites.

Be sure to remember to book holiday flights early. They fill up quickly, and prices may go up the closer we get to the holidays.  But you already knew that.

It used to be I'd check prices on each of the reservation sites --Travelocity, Expedia, Orbitz, etc. And then I would go to the airlines' sites directly. Then when I was done with all of that, the prices would change and I'd have to start all over.

No longer, thanks to kayak.com . They search all of those sites and display the flight options and prices in one place. The only pricing that I have noticed that they do not provide is from Southwest Airlines . So be sure to check their site before you make a decision.

Now, once you have your flight selected, it's time to go to my second-favorite travel site, seatguru.com . This site gives the dimensions and characteristics for individual seats on the airplane. They tell you which seats have limited recline, misaligned windows, and reduced legroom. If only they could tell you which seats have the screaming babies!

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