Question by sandra: How far ahead is too far ahead when booking a flight from the US to UK?
I am planning to visit a friend in London around the end of December 2008 beginning of January 2009. The problem is I am not 100% sure I will still want to visit in 6 months. How far ahead should I book my flight and still get a good deal? Can I book it 3 months ahead and still pay the same as booking 6 months ahead?

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Answer by silentnonrev
simple answer is: no-one knows what conditions will be like next month, let alone in 6 months. Will oil go to $ 200/barrel? $ 250? If you are not sure you want to go, I would say hold off, because almost all tickets are non-refundable except the most expensive ones.

Assuming “normal” economic conditions…..you should still be OK three months out. Just make sure to buy your ticket with a credit card, in case the airline you choose goes belly up!

Buon viaje

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Question by *Phy*: My 1 year Anniversary is coming up. What should I do?? Any suggestions?
My 1 year anniversary to the man I absolutely LoVE is coming up on December 15th. We are both participating in the planning of something to do. We do not want to spend a lot because that is also around Christmas time.We were thinking of something along the lines of a night at a nice hotel and dinner/ or breakfast. But I don’t know, I am open to hear of any special deals you may know of or any other ideas. Thank you.

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Answer by Dave
Your idea of a night/weekend at a nice hotel is a good one. Look for a local “resort” in your area – they might have romantic/honeymoon type weekend package deals you could take advantage of.

Some helpful advice: Remember you and your husband are newly married – you’re just starting out. As for anniversary celebrations and gifts, “start small and work your way up” as time goes by. If you blow your bankroll on your first anniversary, what are you going to have left over for your 2nd? Kind of makes you stop, think, and go “Hmmmmm?”

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Question by stef: I hate my job what should i do?
I hate my job. I am a custodian at a middle school. I work 10am to 630 pm monday through friday. I get paid decent money ($ 11.17 an hour) and i like having off on the weekends its just that it pretty much takes up my whole day. I really want to go to college to be a kindergarten teacher but i dont have time. Plus my boss wont allow me to change my hours around to help me go to school. She says i have to switch to a 3rd shift position but that could take awhile waiting for a position to open up. My boss takes off weeks at a time and i am left by myself to run the entire school. I dont like being looked down upon just because of my job. thats how i am treated by teachers and staff because i am a janitor. I think i am doing pretty well for myself though. I am 21 and I have my own house and am about to get married. Which is another problem. I asked my boss to have off december 16 through the 26 because my fiance and i wanted to go on a disney cruise and get married in the bahamas. he said he will have to think about it because we have programs we have to set up that week and he cant do it himself. which i understand. what i dont get is how he can leave me for 2 weeks to run the school all by myself and that is fair but i cant go away to get married and him be alone. Its like i have to get an okay from him to be able to get married. I would say okay im going to just go and deal with the consequences later, but my boss can be a real jerk and i will pay for it later. He always gives me the shitty end of the deal. I really dont know what to do. I want to better myself and i dont know how to do it. I feel like this job is holding me back in life. what should i do?
oh and i have enough vacation time to go away. which i dont get if i have the time why cant i use it. Plus i am giving him a 4 month notice.

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Answer by Obama hood – Spread the Wealth
Quit your job and go on unemployment. That is what most liberals do.

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Question by Josh W: Cheap travel from Madrid to other European destinations?
Hi, I’m studying abroad in Madrid next Spring (January-May 2011) and I wanted to plan a few trips while I’m there during breaks and long weekends. I’ll already be able to do a decent amount of traveling in Spain thanks to the program, but I was wondering what other places would be ideal and cheap to travel to (aside from Portugal, which is already a definite) while I’ll be in that part of Europe, and if there are any deals/discount/money saving tips that anyone could offer. Also, if anyone knows anything about cheap travel to northern Africa from Spain, that would also be interesting to hear about as well.
Anyone who has any advice or thoughts to offer, just keep in mind that, unless I’m able to go during a 10-day holiday from school, I’ll only have about 3 days in whatever place I go to.

Thank you!! 🙂

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Answer by nix1602
Since you time is limited
check out Easyjet.com
http://www.easyjet.com/asp/en/book/index.asp?lang=en
and Ryanair.com
http://www.ryanair.com/en
They are the leading low cost airlines in Europe and offer competitive flights/prices

If you want to visit North Africa from Madrid, go visit the rock (and the mokeys) in Gibraltar
you can take the ferry from Spain to Morocco
http://www.andalucia.com/travel/ferry/home.htm
Distance from Madrid to Gibraltar about 300 miles, nice train ride

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Question by alwayz_prazn: What are some tips for traveling cross country with Bearded Dragon in winter?
We are going on a cross country road trip, stopping in 2 hotels before getting to our destination. We will be traveling the last week of December and I would like to know how best to travel with my adult bearded dragon the easiest way possible, with no stress to him. I don’t want to lose him. It’s not an option to leave him unless we gave him a new home. How do I keep him warm throughout the car rides? It’s about 11 hours first day, 9 hours next day and 6 1/2 hours following day good weather permitting.

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Answer by kittenslayer
There is no possible way you are going to be able to do that with no stress to him.

It would be in his best interest to leave him at home with a friend or board him at a petstore. I’m sure there is some way you could find boarding for him.

Its going to likely be cold as balls and you’ll have to keep him warm by keeping the car heater up. There are outlet adapters you can put in the cigaratte lighter of a car that you could theoretically plug a heat lamp into, but I think that might not be very safe.

He’s going to be stressed out and not likely to eat; in all honesty he would probably be fine for a week left at your empy house with heat lights on a timer and a big meal before you go and some extra crickets in his cage

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Question by desespoir_noir: How soon is too soon to spend a travel holiday with your boyfriend’s family?
My boyfriend and I have only known each other a little over seven weeks. By the time Thanksgiving rolls around, it’ll be more like twelve weeks. Christmas will be sixteen or seventeen. In months that’s roughly two, three, and four, which sounds longer than weeks, but only by a little.

However, we’ve bonded incredibly fast, and it may have been a little less than two months since we met, but both of us feels like the time before we knew each other was a loooong time ago. We’re both into having the other meet our parents this coming set of hoildays. We live in Northern California. My parents are flying out from Ohio, so that’s a big deal for Thanksgiving, and to see his parents at Christmas I’d have to travel to Southern California. That’s another big deal.

Is the time frame for this kind of visit subjective? Are we rushing it a little? Is it fine since we’re both behind the idea? Would it be weird for our families? I could conceivably travel to meet his parents at a less significant time, but my parents will only be here for three days, and who knows how long it’ll be before they come back, so he’s at least having a Wednesday night dinner with them or something.

I don’t know. This is the first guy I’ve dated since moving away from home several years ago that I actually want my parents to meet, and I’m a little lost. What are your thoughts on boyfriends/girlfriends and meeting parents that live more than, say, 400 miles away?

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Answer by Iheartyou
id say go for it if ur both feeling it .

I was only dating my boyfriend for about 4 or 5 months when I took him up in the summer on a family vaca states and states away.
my family was actually really open to it
as long as ur bf is respectful and nice I dont see why they wouldnt like him

go for it 🙂

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Question by Essennelle: Where should I vacation to in the end of THIS january?
I’m on winter break from college and I have about $ 500 savings for travel. I know hotwire and other sites have package deals for much less than that (i got a hotel and flight deal to montreal for 4 days in a 4 star hotel for about $ 450 this summer) but the question now is where would be an INTERESTING and WARM location to go for the end of january for about 3 girls? I was thinking San Fransisco but i can’t drive, or else maybe Greece, but that would be way more expensive and pretty intense to plan in just a week or so. Any ideas?

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Answer by ?Nobody?
Fiji, its a little island and is so warm and nice there. Its kinda of where you would go on a honeymoon but its also good to be alone and just relax. Im not sure of the cost but I would definitely consider it.

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Question by Luke: How much money is spent during Easter,Christmas,and other Christian Holidays?
and who Profits? Is it not the merchants of the earth?
(Revelation 18:3)  For because of the wine of the anger of her fornication all the nations have fallen [victim], and the kings of the earth committed fornication with her, and the traveling merchants of the earth became rich due to the power of her shameless luxury.”

There is three things Throught out history, that we have had to deal with ,(Politics,Kings of the earth),(Economics-Merchants), (Religion-Her ? ) or(Babylon the Great,False religion)?

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Answer by Danny
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Question by K: What’s the cheapest way to book a flight?
I’m a student and am looking for a flight from Los Angeles to Miami in December. Any hints on snagging a great deal?

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Answer by A Jones
This is a good site…You can choose from many great prices, I book my flights and hotel once every three months http://travel.zamzuu.com/902436

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Question by dominic: Which house for Christmas? My girlfriends parents or my family? Little complicated when you read details?
Which house for Christmas? My girlfriends parents or my family? Little complicated when you read details?
Me and my girlfriend have been together almost 6 months. She has some sort of prejudice against my family because most of them are older(over40) and not married. She is very close with her family and I with mine. She met my Mother under protest and is very unhappy about meeting the rest of my family(2 brothers and 3 sisters) We spent Thanksgiving at her parents house(slept over, 1.5 hours away) she says her family makes a big deal of Christmas eve and they exchange presents then and I said I would like to be with her on xmas eve and spend the night at her parents house. So I said my family does presents on Christmas day and I would like to be with them and I would like her to be there also. She does not want to travel back on xmas day so she says its okay if I do not want to spend the holiday with her but instead with my family. I feel like she is making me choose between my family or her, is this fair? What am I missing?
Thanks

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Answer by element_op
What did you do last year?

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