The company wanted to find out over a one-month period where in the home families spend the most time. This family spent 175 hours in the kitchen. Family members opened the refrigerator 55 times a day and some spent 17 hours just looking inside the refrigerator. 31 hours were spent in the living room. There's a new focus on new home builds to make the kitchen an expansive center of the home.
Banking trends Everyone wants to be a banker.
Sony, the maker of the original Walkman, is experimenting with banking in overseas markets with offers of loans, money accounts, ATM machines and banking in convenience store locations. State Farm, USAA Insurance and e-Trade are offering bank services or investments. There is a shift in the number of resources for banking as the traditional bank system now takes only .09 cents of every consumer dollar. Clark suggests that we do business with a credit union. You will be surprised at how many of us are eligible to join a credit union co-operative.