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Considering Gym Membership? Read Fine Print Carefully
3:30PM 1/04/2011
Decided that 2011 will be the year of the treadmill and spinning class for you? Better read all the fine print before signing an expensive gym contract.
Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray says checking the cancellation policy is particularly important (not that we're saying you're going to...
Money Diet, Week 16: Time to drop the gym membership
12:45PM 4/23/2010
It probably sounds like the last thing anyone trying to lose weight should do, but I just dropped our family membership at the YMCA.
On paper, it looks so easy. If you want to lose weight, you eat less and exercise more. But, of course, reality always intrudes, and the reality is that for the past...
The gym 24 Hour Fitness has a super quick sale on gym memberships and personal training sessions but they both end today!
Get a $0 initiation fee when you sign up for a monthly payment membership. More info here.
Once you join, you can get three 50-minute personal training sessions for $99. No...
Why does buying a gym membership have to be like buying a car?
1:00PM 8/14/2009
High pressure sales tactics to "buy today" must work, or salespeople at auto dealers and vacation timeshares wouldn't be using them. But at a gym, where an annual membership is much less than buying a new car or timeshare rental?In an effort to save a few bucks, I took one of the many fliers I get...
Money still matters in zero gravity or hey, that's my toilet!
10:00AM 4/06/2009
You'd think being surrounded by the cold and endless void known as space would be enough to get nations to leave their money squabbling behind, but that's not the case. Ever since Russia started charging the U.S. to send astronauts to the International Space Station, other countries have responded...
Get your cable shows free (by watching at your gym...)
5:00PM 1/26/2009
When people look to save money by cutting back on bills, cable is often one of the first expenses to be cut. While you can stay up to date with many shows online, there are just as many that you can only catch on cable. Usually you'd have to make due without. But one of my friends has come up with...
A couple of years ago, the combination of quitting smoking and sitting on the couch with my new daughter began to take its toll. All of my size 36 pants started fitting tightly, my shirts were bulging out in the middle and...well, let's just say that, in the words of Dennis Miller, my belly button...
A recent piece in the Wall Street Journal looks at the troubles associated with joining a gym. Membership plans are convoluted and obfuscatory: "Attrition (nonrenewal) runs as high as 40% annually, First Research reports. No wonder clubs try to slice and dice membership types and incentives to...
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