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http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Five-ways-you-can-still-plan-an-affordable-Labor-11943432.php Kristin Hanes Updated 3:53 am, Thursday, August 24, 2017 Labor Day weekend is coming up, and not all of us are excited to spend a ton of money on a getaway. But never fear, there are some ways to save, whether you're doing a staycation, or even a trip abroad. Here are five travel hacks that will help you keep more money in the bank while also enjoying a few glorious days away from the daily grind. 1. Trusted Housesitters Trusted Housesitters  is an online site that trades pet-sitting for a place to stay. You can browse beautiful homes and apartments in San Francisco and all over the world. Don't like dogs? Don't be discouraged. You can search for homes with other animals like cats, birds, reptiles and farm animals. Yep, you can take care of a real-life farm while on vacation, or, maybe that doesn't sound like a vacation after all. Trusted Housesitters does have a caveat, ...

Travelers have clocked 369 million international trips so far this year, an incredible sum equal to nearly 1. 6 million trips per day. Year to date, it’s 21 million more passport stamps than were achieved in early 2016. And s ome of the most popular destinations simply can’t handle the volume. Look no further than Venice. As the floating city deals with the threat of rising tides, it’s also being flooded by cruise ships and mass tourism, turning a romantic paradise into a mashup between Disney World and Times Square. Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Dubrovnik are also feeling the crunch. This year they have all taken steps to curb tourism, seeing it as a burden on locals rather than a bastion of economic opportunity. “A large part of these overcrowding issues is directly correlated to cruising,” said Melissa Biggs Bradley , founder and chief executive of the travel membership club Indagare . “In Dubrovnik, when there are two cruise ships in port and you have 3,000 extra people in the old...

Heading to the local warehouse, stocking up on our favorite food staples and other products, and then returning home, hauling it all in the house and figuring out where to store it all: It seems like more trouble than it's worth for the typical shopper. But most people could save themselves a substantial amount of time and money if they shopped wisely and purchased certain items in bulk. Buying in bulk is fairly easy and only requires consumers to be conscientious of their own shopping habits. The key to buying in bulk is focusing on items you frequently use. Here is a quick list to help you bulk up and save. Food, Cooking Items According to Rachel Paxton of PioneerThinking.com, items such as sugar, flour, spices, chocolate and peanut butter all have an incredibly long shelf life . Frequently bought food items such as grains, dried fruits, beans, pasta, nuts and dried vegetables can also be stored for an incredibly long time . Instead of paying $4 to $5 for a pound for meat ever...

One day in August, 2016, the financier Carl Icahn made an urgent phone call to the Environmental Protection Agency . Icahn is one of the richest men on Wall Street, and he has thrived, in no small measure, because of a capacity to intimidate. A Texas- based oil refiner in which he had a major stake was losing money because of an obscure environmental rule that Icahn regarded as unduly onerous. Icahn is a voluble critic of any government regulation that constrains his companies. So he wanted to speak with the person in charge of enforcing the policy: a senior official at the E.P.A. named Janet McCabe . Icahn works from a suite of offices, atop the General Motors Building , in midtown, that are decorated in the oak-and-leather fashion of a tycoon’s lair in a nineteen-eighties film. During that decade, Icahn made his reputation as one of the original corporate raiders , pioneering the art of the hostile takeover and establishing himself as a human juggernaut—a pugnacious deal machine ...