Thanksgiving, a time to save

Everybody knows finances are tight today. Now, one can only hope against hope that by the time this column hits your hands, the sentence I just wrote is a lie. That by some miracle the ever-escalating balloon of inflation in our country has run into a sharp knife and rapidly became a splattered has-been on the ground. I’m hoping all of us are crowding the stores, once again stocking our pantries and keeping our credit cards smoking.

Yeah, I know, the eternal optimist.

But let me leave that topic for a few paragraphs, because this eternal optimist wants to take you on a trip into the very near...