HK:We don’t always ask for what we want because we’re taught to wait and be polite. And I think we are afraid sometimes. We are just happy to be at the party, but there has to come a point when we feel we deserve to be at the party. KLG: The problem starts early on. We’re raised with fairy tales about waiting for a prince to come along. They don’t tell you that your prince is going to find another little princess he likes better. Why do you two get along so well? KLG: I only intended to stay on the show one year because I felt like I did the best television that I could do with Regis [Philbin]. But I fell in love with Hoda. HK: There are times when I can’t believe I’m sitting next to Kathie Lee. Who would’ve thought? KLG: Because on paper it made so much sense: a postmenopausal has-been and an award-winning Egyptian journalist! I love that you enjoy wine on the set. Was it Chelsea Handler who first brought alcohol on the show? KLG: Chelsea’s the one with the problem, not us! [laughs] HK: She started it, then Brooke Shields came a couple days later and said, “Where’s my cocktail?” KLG: And then Joel McHale showed up with his own bottle of Hennessy, and then they started doing skits about us on Saturday Night Live. [Watch the spoofs at parade.com/snl.] How do you feel about the jokes? KLG:Look, you don’t get parodied on SNL unless you’ve made an impact. But everybody who has ever played Hoda has gotten fired [or left]. HK: It’s terrible. As long as it’s not Kenan [Thompson], I don’t care who plays me!


Vacation and school supplies and new clothes, oh my! If you’re feeling financially pinched this month, you’re not alone. In a recentParade focus group of Walmart Moms, women said that


August is the toughest time to stay on budget. According to the National Retail Federation, the average family spends more than $650 transitioning from summer to fall.


there’s no shame in getting thrifty: When it comes to back-to-school expenses, creativity counts!


SUNDAY FREEBIE: BACK-TO-FALL BONANZA! •


to weekend activities—there are a host of tricks for scoring bargains. Here, we’ve collected our fa- vorites. And since the best deals are free, we’ve blown out our weekly Sunday Freebie into a give- away extravaganza, full of prizes! Enter for a chance to win one of them atparade.com/freebie.


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If you’re willing to buy secondhand, you can get gently used clothes at sites like Schoola.com and ThredUp .com. And borrowing rather than buying can help you save on pricier items like graph- ing calculators (from $9 a month at rentcalculators.org) and musical instruments (schmittmusic .com leases popular strings and horns). Amazon Prime members can even rent textbooks, in hardcover or on a Kindle.


For other expenses in the months ahead—everything from backpacks But in this economy,


1. Soft Tunes The Libratone Loop sounds and looks good: This wire- less speaker wrapped in cashmere streams music even without a Wi-Fi connection. ($500; libratone.com)


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2. Stock Up Prefer to buy in bulk? Whirlpool’s 28 Cubic-Foot, Four- Door Refrigerator has adjustable bins, dividers, and shelves so you’ll be able to fit that five-dozen egg carton and six-pack of romaine. ($3,099; whirlpool.com for stores)


3. College Prep Send your under- grad off with the essentials. The Reagan 23-Piece Pro Campus Col- lection includes a comforter, shams, sheets, towels, pillows, a mattress pad and topper, a caddy, a hamper, and a blanket. ($400; bed- bathandbeyond.com)


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4. Top Performer The LG Chromebase computer stores your photos and videos in the cloud so you can open them on any device and never worry about losing data in a crash. ($350; amazon.com)


© PARADE Publications 2014. All rights reserved


NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. TO ENTER AND FOR FULL RULES, GO TO WWW.PARADE.COM/FREEBIE. EACH SWEEPSTAKES STARTS 12:01 A.M. ET 8/7/14 AND ENDS 11:59 P.M. ET 8/15/14. OPEN TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE 50 UNITED STATES/D.C. 18 OR OLDER, EXCEPT EMPLOYEES OF SPONSOR, THEIR IMMEDIATE FAMILIES, AND THOSE LIVING IN THE SAME HOUSEHOLD. ODDS OF WINNING DEPEND ON THE NUMBER OF ENTRIES RECEIVED. A.R.V. OF THE 37 PRIZES: $70 – $3,099 EACH. SPONSOR: PARADE MEDIA GROUP. THIS PROMOTION IS IN NO WAY SPONSORED, ENDORSED OR ADMINISTERED BY, OR ASSOCIATED WITH, FACEBOOK.


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