Number of households that hire a residential cleaning service or maid: 1 in 10
Weight of garbage Americans generated in 2010: 250 tons
(BoltInsurance)

The first credit card was issued by American Express in 1951.
About 30% of consumers use their credit card as their main means of buying Christmas goodies, 70% do not save to buy Christmas gifts and 86% of consumers do their Christmas shopping during December.
Excessive use of credit is cited as a major cause of non-business bankruptcy, second only to unemployment.
(DidYouKnow.org)

The average age of Forbes’s 400 wealthiest individuals is over 60.
In 1955, the richest woman in the world was Mrs Hetty Green Wilks, who left an estate of $95 million in a will that was found in a tin box with four pieces of soap.
Liliane Bettencourt, the daughter of L’Oreal’s founder, has been the richest woman in the world for most of the past decade.
Queen Elizabeth II is one of the 10th wealthiest women in the world.
(Forbes)

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