10/16/18 Newsletter: 🌴Giveaway: Tropical Getaway🌴

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Spotlight

If you’ve been dying to embark on a tropical getaway, now’s your chance. Enter for a chance to win a giveaway package that includes cash prizes toward airfare, hotels and more. No need to touch your savings — we’ve got you covered.

The Deets: The lucky winner will receive $1,000 in travel cash, courtesy of Swirled, Tripcents, Lolli, and TTF, a $400 hotel voucher from Triphop and a two-month subscription to Tripcents, which can help you save even more money during your travels.  

The Bottom Line: If you’ve been struggling to save for your next vacay, this giveaway could make all your travel dreams come true. You deserve an incredible tropical vacation. ENTER NOW.

Life Hack Of The Day: Pumpkin Edition

Want your carved pumpkin to last longer? Apply petroleum jelly to the cuts to prolong your pumpkin’s life.

Health

To be on the safe side, go organic with your coffee beans. According to research, the roasting process eliminates the bulk of synthetic chemicals from pesticides found in the beans, but not all of which disappear. Plus, you can find organic beans for less than $10 a pound if you know where to look, so the switch won’t break your budget! [Swirled]

Did You Know? There are a handful of surprising foods that can contribute to bloating. Chicken breasts, for example, are commonly injected with a high-sodium flavor solution that (supposedly) makes them taste better, but it can cause unwanted bloating. Make sure you avoid that “enhanced” poultry if you want to skip the bloat! [Swirled]

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Career + Finance

There are some serious benefits to feeling busy all the time. Research shows that those who consider themselves consistently busy have better self-control in all aspects of their lives, including work, health and leisure projects. [Swirled]

Digit Of The Day: 13 percent of full-time employees said in a recent report that their job search took longer than six months. What’s more, “only 41 percent of workers seeking technical roles apply to five or fewer jobs, signaling tougher competition for companies,” and “only 1 percent of recent hires accepted a job after more than 6 months of interviews.” [Swirled]

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Food + Drink

You have to eat a stroopwafel when in Amsterdam. The wafer sandwich cookie is unmissable, stacked over a layer of delish caramel and drizzled with chocolate. You can find the OG ‘wafel at Original Stroopwafel in the Albert Cyupmarkt. You can also find stroopwafels stateside, but we can’t promise they’ll be as good as the ones in Amsterdam. [Swirled]

Recipe Of The Day: Skillet brown butter banana bread is exactly what you need this week. Using a cast iron pan, brown butter (butter that you cook on the stove until you smell an overwhelmingly nutty aroma and see a caramelized color), bananas and a select few other ingredients, you’ll have an incredible banana bread that rivals your grandma’s. [Swirled]

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Travel

Deal Of The Day: You can fly roundtrip to Paris for as low as $312. Prices on flights leaving U.S. cities like NYC, Boston, Atlanta, Miami, LA, Chicago and Seattle to Paris are ridiculously low if you plan to fly between November of this year and May 2019. [The Points Guy]

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