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943: Why Gym Memberships Can Be A Smart Investment by Elissa Bass with Get Rich Slowly on Investing in Health

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🗓️ 9 October 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Elissa Bass with Get Rich Slowly shares why gym memberships can be a smart investment.  Episode 943: Why Gym Memberships Can Be A Smart Investment by Elissa Bass with Get Rich Slowly on Investing in Health  J.D. Roth has been reading and writing about personal finance for a decade. Today he’s financially independent, but ten years ago, his money life was a disaster, with over $35,000 in consumer debt. He started turning everything around in 2004. By being the boss of your own life, you, too, can be the master of your own financial fate.  The original post is located here: https://www.getrichslowly.org/investing-in-your-health/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Bella Ramsey time watch on BBC I player this is optimal finance daily episode 943

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Why gym memberships can be a smart investment

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by alyssa Bass with get-rich slowlyorg And I'm Dan, I'm your host and it is Yom Kippur if you're listening in real time, so here's wishing you an easy, fast, and a good holy day.

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This is of course where I read to you from some of the best personal finance blogs on the planet.

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I do that each Monday through Friday.

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For now, let's get right to our post

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as we optimize your life.

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Why Gym memberships can be a smart investment by Alyssa Bass with Get Rich Slowly.

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I've just come from the gym. My arms are so spent I can barely type. My glutes are

1:15.9

killing me as I sit on my wooden chair. I am guzzling ice water and still sweating

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a little bit. An hour of concentrated exercise with a trainer, part of my gym memberships, has left me feeling

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both exhausted and accomplished. I love my gym. My gym membership costs us $158.46 per month. I can hear the gasps of horror from the frugal

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corner. That's $1,901.52 a year. Over the next 10 years, that's almost 20K I could be putting into my Roth IRA.

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That's $5,704.56 we could be putting into the 529 college account for our second child. You remember him, the one we call Hope He Gets

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