{"id":3851,"date":"2014-12-12T11:16:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/?p=3851"},"modified":"2014-12-11T13:46:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T18:46:44","slug":"financial-wellness-the-extra-20-in-your-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/uncategorized\/financial-wellness-the-extra-20-in-your-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Wellness: The Extra $20 in your Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/files\/2014\/12\/dollar-bill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3855\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/files\/2014\/12\/dollar-bill.jpg\" alt=\"dollar bill\" width=\"365\" height=\"139\" \/><\/a>The average tank of gasoline for your car is $1 less than it was even six months ago. For a car with a 20 gallon gas tank, this is a $20 savings per fill up. We do not know when the pump prices will increase or decrease, so the extra money is likely temporary savings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, what are you doing with the extra $20?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Possibly, consider saving it, or putting it in a child&#8217;s college savings account.<\/li>\n<li>Create or add to a rainy day fund.<\/li>\n<li>Put it toward paying off debt, or spend cash at the holiday season rather than adding charges to a credit card bill.<\/li>\n<li>Consider trying a super food with the savings.<\/li>\n<li>Maybe purchase new walking\/running shoes, yoga mat, or a balance ball.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Consider this,if someone makes $10 per hour who is filling up his\/her car each week, this is 2 hours of work they have to increase their financial wellbeing.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The average tank of gasoline for your car is $1 less than it was even six months ago. For a car with a 20 gallon gas tank, this is a $20 savings per fill up. We do not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/uncategorized\/financial-wellness-the-extra-20-in-your-account\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paB9fc-107","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3851"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3862,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions\/3862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}