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| New to the newsletter? Subscribe to The Daily Money to get the best consumer and financial news from USA TODAY delivered to your inbox every weekday morning. And give our news-inspired Spotify playlist a listen. It features every song quoted here. |
| Happy Tuesday, Daily Money readers. Jayme Deerwester here with you, hoping Tax Day 2022 was an uneventful one for you. |
'Back to how it was before': Airline mask mandate ends after 2 years |
| It looks like the mask mandate on airplanes won't be in place an extra two weeks after all. |
| United, American, Southwest, Delta, Alaska and other airlines late Monday said they were dropping their face mask requirement effective immediately given a federal judge's ruling in Florida and the White House response to it. And just like that, passengers no longer have to cover up to fly. |
| But official communication from federal agencies to airports and carriers came late in the day, leaving crew and passengers confused. In fact, many airline employees kept their masks on because they hadn't gotten official word from their airlines yet. |
| USA TODAY was on the scene at airports – and in the sky – to capture the reaction of passengers and workers as they shed their masks for the first time in two years. |
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| COMMUTING COSTS: How to save on gas and other back-to-work expenses. |
👰How much should you spend on a wedding gift? 👰 |
| Is your summer already booked up with weddings? If so, you may be navigating the uncomfortable question of how much money you should spend on a gift for the couple. |
| An appropriate range for a wedding gift can be quite wide, from $50 to $500 and beyond," Sara Margulis, CEO and co-founder of honeymoon registry site Honeyfund, tells USA TODAY, noting that the average gift on Honeyfund runs between $125 and $150. But she says there are other factors at play including the giver's financial situation, location and relationship with the couple. |
| Elaine Swann, lifestyle and etiquette expert and founder of The Swann School of Protocol, refers to the thought process around your relationship with the recipient as the "onion" method. Near the onion's middle are guests closer to the marrying couple – say a family member or close friend. Then as you get farther from the middle, you have coworkers and acquaintances who are not obliged to spend quite as much. |
| You "spend a little less and less and less as the relationship itself is not as close," Swann said. |
🎧 Mood music 🎧 |
| For the past two years, masked airline passengers have seemed like eyes without faces. So to mark the end of the TSA mandate, I'm going with this Billy Idol classic. (Apologies for any "Nip/Tuck"-related PTSD this song may trigger.) |
| "Now I close my eyes and I wonder why I don't despise. Now all I can do is love what was once so alive and new. But it's gone from your eyes, I'd better realize." |
| LISTEN WHILE YOU WORK: You can hear just about every song quoted in the newsletter on the Daily Money Mood Music playlist on Spotify. |
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