Avoid these mistakes and make sure filling your tank doesn’t drain your piggy bank.
February 20, 2024 | Read Online | | | Advertisement | | | Later in this email, find out some interesting items you are and are not allowed to take in your carry-on luggage. | | 💵 Today’s Top Stories | | | Did you know there’s a right and wrong way to fill up your gas tank? Avoid these mistakes and make sure filling your tank doesn’t drain your piggy bank. Read more. |
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| | | The tax deadline is April 15 like most years. If you’re getting money back from the IRS, here’s when you can expect your tax refund. Read more. |
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| | | Do you have a Discover credit card? You may have some changes coming your way soon. Read more. |
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| | | Americans face a record credit card debt of more than $1.1 trillion. Here’s Team Clark’s simple four-step instruction list to get rid of your own credit card debt. Read more. |
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| | | The new rule allowing you to roll unused 529 plan funds into a Roth IRA has some people looking at it simply as a way to hand out a back-door Roth. Does Clark think that’s a smart strategy? Read more. |
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| | 💵 10 Items Allowed and Not Allowed in Your Carry-On Luggage | If you’re boarding an airplane, you know the drill by now. You can’t carry huge bottles of liquid through airport security. And you can’t carry serious weapons on the plane with you. | But the list of acceptable and unacceptable items is interesting. | The Transportation Security Administration keeps a list on its website of items allowed in your carry-on and checked luggage, including details where specific instructions are necessary. | “In practice it’s often the TSA agent in your security line who makes the call about a particular item,” wrote Andrea Romano for Travel + Leisure. | For example, fresh meat and seafood must be “completely frozen” at the time of your TSA screening. | Here are items that are allowed in your carry-on luggage, sometimes with restrictions (or up for the decision of individual airlines): | Antlers Fresh eggs Handcuffs Live fish and live lobster (airline-by-airline decision) Medical marijuana (if it meets certain conditions) Microwave (airline-by-airline decision) Night vision goggles Rocks Scissors (if less than 4 inches from the pivot point) Shock collars | Here are some items not allowed in your carry-on: | Alcoholic drinks that are 140 proof+ (70%+ alcohol) Bear spray Billy clubs Dynamite Hand grenades Honey Magic 8 ball Olive oil Rocket launcher Yogurt | | 📊 Stat of the Day | 💸 123.7 million: Final average viewership for Super Bowl LVIII according to Nielsen. That’s up from fast initial estimates of 123.4 million and the most-watched TV event in U.S. history. Women ages 18 to 24 posted a 24% year-over-year viewership increase that some attributed to Taylor Swift. |
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| There’s a new hotel fee surprising travelers for something they aren’t even using. Just wait until you hear what it’s for. Also, something many of us don’t want to think about until we lose someone we love: funeral costs. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has a new warning about the shady practices that Clark has been talking about for years. It can hit you in the wallet when you are most vulnerable. | | | ☎️ Need Money Help? | The Team Clark Consumer Action Center is a free helpline that can help you navigate your money questions. Call 636-492-5275. Visit clark.com/cac for more information. | | Advertisement | | | | | |
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