Checked your cortisol levels lately? On Saturday, May 11, all Sam’s Club stores with pharmacies will offer several basic medical screenings for free, including one for the “stress hormone,” to get a reading on how well your adrenal or pituitary glands are working.
(This Mayo Clinic page explains what can happen if your cortisol goes haywire.)
You don’t have to be a member to take advantage of these screenings, so stop in.
And the gift cards?I’ll get to them in a minute. Don’t stress out.
Last night I hit the midnight movie with my friend Linda B., who agrees with me that there’s no sense seeing “Iron Man 3” during the day when we’re well-rested.
There’s just something fun about being there at 12:01 a.m. the day it opens, especially for a popcorner like this one.
I hope to see a lot of other movies this year, with Linda or with my niece and her boys. Maybe you want to go to the movies, too, but are horripilated by the price of the tickets.
I can help: This week I’m giving away two $15 gift cards to Regal Cinemas.
Late yesterday afternoon the UPS left leaving an envelope whose contents — “Superman: Last Son of Krypton” and “Beware the Batman” — sent me rocketing back to my childhood.
They’re two of the books to be given away tomorrow for Free Comic Book Day 2013. Every first Saturday in May the comics industry gives away millions of titles for free at comic shops across the country.
Some 4.6 million comics will be handed across counters this year, which is a 30% increase over 2012.
Comics have moved beyond the POW! ZAP! these days. SpongeBob Squarepants has his own comic series. So does “Sesame Street.” The wildly popular series “The Walking Dead” began as a comic book, although purists would probably call it a graphic novel.
The free-comic lineup is quite the mixed bag: books based on the usual superheroes like Superman, Batman and The Hulk, plus titles whose heroes range from Judge Dredd to MegaMan to the children’s book character Pippi Longstocking. (Go here for a full list of offerings.)
Got health insurance? If not, you can get some free testing this Saturday at any Sam’s Club location that has a pharmacy. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., both members and non-members can take advantage of: Total cholesterol test Blood pressure reading Vision screening Glucose test Body mass index screening Oral health questionnaire “Dental tablets,” … Read more
Want to change careers but fear you’ve already invested “too many” years in your current one to give up?
Or needing to focus on what’s happening right now while still hoping for change?
Maybe you’re trying to follow a dream but beset by setbacks and naysayers. Or you’re either on top of the world or at the depths of despair.
If any (or all!) of this is true, you might want this week’s giveaway.
Got a money question? Let the experts answer it. Four financial advisors will host a free live web chat on Kiplinger.com on Thursday, March 21.
They’ll take questions about topics such as insurance, taxes, investing for retirement and saving for college from 1 to 3 p.m. Eastern. Ask your question before or during the chat using the Kiplinger web chat link or the Kiplinger Facebook page, the NAPFA Facebook page, or the #JumpStartRetire hashtag on Twitter.
Can’t stick around for the whole rodeo? You can go back later and view a transcript.
Previous giveaways of odd conference swag or anti-“Blue Monday” boxes have always been popular. Maybe that’s because a bunch of little oddments are fun to open. Or maybe it’s because the readers, like me, can’t resist a freebie.
This week’s prize is a collection of this-and-that from the Last Frontier, as much as I could fit in a large flat-rate Priority Mail box. I didn’t get these things at a conference but they should certainly fight the blues. After all, how many chances do you get to win a kuspuk pattern?
Want to cut your food bill? Jump-start the process with the “Grocery Couponing 101” webinar, jointly sponsored by Savings.com and LearnVest.
The free program, designed to reduce your supermarket spending by up to 50%, takes place from 8 to 9 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, April 4. Presenters are Andrea Deckard of SavingsLifestyle.com, Lauren Greutman of I Am That Lady and Ellen Derrick, a certified financial planner with LearnVest.
Just how much can you learn in an hour? So glad you asked.
How much do you earn? How much do you think you should earn? This book by Brian Tracy offers ways to “maximie your income at any time in any market.”
If you ‘d like to know more, enter to win a copy.
When I was a kid I felt sorry for people with “hay fever,” the catch-all name for seasonal allergies. Those greatly magnified images of pollen on the Contac commercials gave me the creeps: Imagine all that pointy-edged stuff digging its way into your nose and eyes! (It didn’t occur to me that I’d inhaled the same li’l monsters.)
A few years ago I discovered that you can develop seasonal allergies after childhood. Lucky me.
So if you’ve noticed sniffles, itchy eyes and raw throat in the springtime but figured it was just an end-of-winter cold you couldn’t shake, you might have developed allergies as well. You can find out for free on Saturday, March 9 if you live near a Sam’s Club with a pharmacy.