Gym membership on a tight budget

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The YMCA is income based. It has you do a spin down of what you

make, and what your expenses are, and then bases your gym fee on

that. You can get in for as low as $10-15 a month for a family of 4

in some cases.

If there’s one near you, look into it!

— In Budget101_@yahoogroups.com, pen2i@… wrote:

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> Hi Everyone. I’m a lurker and an occasional poster, but now I have

the need for any and all information you all can share. My situation

is this: I am on an extremely tight budget. With each paycheck, I

have to juggle who gets what, and when, literally. With that said, I

am also overweight, and desperately want to join a gym. I have had

extremely positive results in the past, and know this is the route I

need to take again. My question to you all is this: is there a way

that I can join a gym frugally, meaning tax deductible or in any way

that it will positively affect my finances? Is there any way of

having to pay for a memebership, but yet somehow have it reimbursed

in some other way? I haven’t done any research online, yet. But so

many of you have such wonderful ideas, I wanted to start here first.

Please, no suggestions of how I can do excercises at home, at work,

or the like. I am all too familiar with these options. I am really

specifically looking for a way to incorporate a gy

> m membership in my budget, but with little or no affect in my

finances. Many thanks to you all.

> ~Penni

> Hillsborough, NC

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