Keep something with a far-off expiry date, such as granola bars or dried fruit, for emergencies like this.
"Most hotels issue early-booking offers of up to 30% off, with expiry dates in December-January, or sometimes February," says Emma Barnett, co-founder of family specialist Totstoo.
Patents on many lucrative drugs are on the verge of expiry.
The 29-year-old's career appeared to have veered off course, the expiry of his contract at Chelsea in the summer of 2010 confirmed as he lingered on the fringes of an England side labouring ignominiously at the World Cup finals in South Africa.
"Release on expiry of the tariff period is not automatic.
The expiry cuts off access to €7.2bn of money left in the rescue package, cash Greece had wanted handed over to cover wage payments to its public sector workers, pensions and money due to the IMF.
Scotland's prospects of yet taking a place in the World Cup play-offs remain reed-slim but a difficult, at times even improbable, victory over Macedonia at Hampden Park at least saved them from expiry.
And the cookies of "active" users will be automatically renewed upon expiry.
Barroso waited only two months after the expiry of his 18-month cooling-off period before taking the Goldman gig.
If we didn't know better, we might conclude that the airlines were choosing an imminent passport expiry as an excuse to bump passengers off a flight that had been overbooked and needed to shed some travellers.
The criminals use software that automatically generates different variations of a card's security data – for example, the card number, expiry date and three-digit security code known as the CVV – and fires these off to hundreds or even thousands of websites around the world at the same time.
