It's my pleasure to welcome you here to the Clark Howard Show. You know, our mission is to serve

you with advice and information that empowers you so you make better financial decisions in

your life. You know, now the holidays are over, we're mid-January, many people are doing what I want them to do.

They're thinking about travel for spring or summer.

And I got some tips for you as you dream about those longer, brighter, potentially warmer days.

And later, do you know what Amazon brushing is? brighter, potentially warmer days.

And later, do you know what Amazon brushing is?

It's a scam.

You need to know and you need to know that this is a gift you don't want.

As I'll explain the riddle later.

So January is a bargain month in travel. For people who can travel this month,

they just can't believe their eyes, the prices they're getting on travel. But also, there are a lot of deals that are present right now for spring travel and a lesser extent

summer travel that you're not going to find as the calendar moves forward.

And the reason that January is a bargain month is that a lot of people, well, after Christmas, they're a little short of funds.

And so it means that people who are okay in the wallet are going to pick up these really good deals.

But when you go shopping for deals, things are not always like they appear.

So I want to give you an example of this because everybody knows you buy a ticket from an

airline that once you buy that ticket, they're going to get in your wallet for this thing

and that thing and the other thing.

And by the way, we've got this other thing as well, and we're going to fee you.

And they learned it from the deep discount airlines like Spirit that's in bankruptcy

and frontier that hates its customers and all that.

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