Archive for April, 2010
Friday Finance Findings for April 23rd
Hopefully by now you’ve all completed your taxes and received your refund if you had one coming. Did you do anything fun with your refund money or just tuck it away into savings? We got a surprise refund this year but no plans for anything extravagant. For now it’s just sitting in our FNBO savings [...]
Payday Loans – Ripping You Off One Fee at a Time
Payday Loans Can Cost You Thousands Payday loans go by a variety of names: payday loans, cash advance loans, check advance loans, post-dated check loans, or deferred deposit check loans. They sound harmless, because in most cases you’re just borrowing money to get you through to pay day, but under the surface they are one [...]
How Much Money Do I Need to Save For Retirement?
Calculating How Much Money You Need for Retirement Every so often I receive questions from readers. I try to answer them all directly, but occasionally a question comes up that is very broad and is one that more people are thinking about but not asking. Everybody wants to know how much they should be saving [...]
10 Ways to Get Physically Fit Without Spending Money on a Gym Membership
The 2009 Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index found that out of the 673,000 Americans they interviewed by phone, 36.6% are overweight and 26.5% are obese. The survey, conducted between January 2008 and December 2009, notes that “59.2% of obese Americans exercised at least one day per week, compared to 69.9% of overweight people, and 73.8% of normal-weight [...]
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