First Class Seats at Coach Prices

clipped from www.10news.com Airline Secrets Could Land Flyers In First Class So, how would you like to sit in the front but pay less than someone way in the back? What's the travel trick? While booking a flight, ask the agent about a special type of fare. It's most commonly called a YUPP. But some airlines also use codes like QUPP and Z. The leading airlines all confirmed they offer this kind of fare, describing it as either a coach seat with an automatic upgrade or deeply discounted first class. In addition to sitting in the front of the plane, the YUPP seats offer even more benefits. Experts said they're generally fully refundable seats, and you may get extra frequent flier miles for being in first.

Deceptively Delicious: Jessica "Mrs. Jerry" Seinfeld

[I LOVE the writers at Jezebel, their style amuses me.] I am quite the happy carnivore, but I have friends who are vegetarian. Whenever they start preaching to me about the virtues of vegetables, I look them in the eye an say: TOFURKEY.

clipped from jezebel.com Jessica Seinfeld's "Deceptively Delicious": Kinda Deceptive, Not So Delicious We were wary when we first saw Jessica "Mrs. Jerry" Seinfeld on Oprah last week, heralding the benefits of steaming and pureeing the shit out of vegetables and then "hiding" them in kid-friendly foods so that kids will stop throwing temper tantrums at the dinner table and actually eat their vegetables. Apparently, one man's bullshit is another's inspiration: Jessica Seinfeld has anchored her new cookbook Deceptively Delicious in precisely this school of culinary trickery: Broccoli puree and flaxmeal-coated chicken nuggets. Beet puree enriches chocolate cake. Spinach and chocolate get it on. Gross.

Traveling with Wine

I have had (knock on wood) great success when I wrap wine bottles in straw beach mats, bubble wrap or several cotton sarongs. I always put the bottles in the middle of my largest suitcase and surround them with my shoes (especially great if you are a Crocs fan), and surround that tidy cocoon with clothes and other goodies. Works great!

clipped from www.gadling.com Tips for Bringing Wine back from Abroad Whether you're bringing back a bottle of wine from the Bordeaux region of France or a bottle of Kahlua from Mexico, alcohol is not only a souvenir from your travels but also a story to share around the dinner/card/pool table. if you want to bring more than two bottles of wine back with you, go to a specialty wine store and tell them you'll be traveling with the the wine. They'll either package up the wine for you really well or sell you a crate. If you have to package it yourself, use many layers of material and lots of padding -- a hard shell with soft padding in and outside is a good start.

Flying Hooks

In the walk-in closet that I am building in the back of my mind, these suspension hangars are everywhere, in various colors (coordinated to distinguish pants from skirts, of course), at varying levels.

Yes, it's a very big closet.

clipped from charlesandmarie.com Flying Hooks suspension hangers, designed by Ariëtte Bos and Tom Couvée for Goods in the Netherlands that are attached to your ceiling and then just hang down, making your fly clothes appear as if they are flying in mid air. the stainless steel cable is about 8.2′ long (250 cm) and the black polypropylene hanger is 3.5″ wide (9 cm), the rest you should know…