Money Information from Magazines Week at Free Money Finance

I'm a magazine nut.  I currently subscribe to 19 of them (several were "free" in exchange for airline miles on airlines I no longer use).  My habit is to flip through each one, rip out the articles I want to read, then throw out the rest of the magazine.  There are always 5-6 articles I want to read in full, a number I consider well worth the price of the subscription (for the ones I pay for).

Several of these articles are money-related.  Even non-money magazines like Reader's Digest and This Old House can have tips that help you better manage your money.

Over the past month, I've accumulated quite a few articles that I want to share with you, and I'll be doing so over the next few days.  An interesting one to get started is found in July's issue of Kiplinger Personal Finance. It notes several interesting facts about bottled water including:

• Americans drank and average of 23.8 gallons of bottled water per person in 2004 versus 53.7 gallons of carbonated soft drinks
• Bottled water sales in the U.S. were $9.2 billion in 2004
• The leading bottled water brand is Aquafina -- with sales of $1 billion
• 73% of teens drink bottled water versus 43% of people over 65

Didn't water used to be free? :-)

Comments

[Alex Givant]

Yep, it's free, just open your tap and drink as much as you can. If other people prefer to pay for story that bottle of water tell them, I believe they have rigth to do that.

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