Start off the new year with these resolutions on how to spend more wisely.

• Get more tips from the Savings Challenge

Martina: Eating Healthy During the Holidays

By Martina Navratilova

Moderation, exercise, and nutritious foods are the keys to navigating this season of overindulgence.

Fat 2 Fit: Make Your New Year’s Resolutions Stick

By Carole Carson

Follow these three tips to reach your fitness goals this year.

• Fat 2 Fit: A One-Step Holiday Eating Plan
• Get in Shape Cheap
• Fat 2 Fit: Fit for the Holidays
• Meditation: Not Just for Yogis
• Flu Season Guide
• Six Secrets of Those Who Never Get Sick

2009 Holiday Gift Guide

By AARP The Magazine

Family and friends will guess you paid twice as much as you really did for these trendy treasures. Your secret is safe with us!

• Bonus Feature: Peggy Post's Holiday Tipping Guide

Toys of Christmas Past

By Bill Hogan

Some toys have real staying power. Here are 50 playthings that have remained on the market, almost unchanged, for 50 years--and better yet, for $50 or less.

• Book Excerpt: 'Tinsel: A Search for America's Christmas Present'
• Video Game Reviews
• Shipping Deadlines
• Top Ten Gift Ideas for Lovers
• Deck the Halls for Less
• Books for Grandparents
• Pay Less for Anything
• Holiday Road Trips the Thrifty Way
• Gift Return Tips
• Grandparents: Six Gift Ideas That Can Help Bridge the Distance
• Saving During the Holidays Without Being a Scrooge
• New Year, Stronger Retirement

Holiday Entertaining Guide

By Joanne Weir

Food Network chef Joanne Weir serves up her secrets for throwing a budget-friendly bash!

Good News for Cocoa Lovers

By AARP Bulletin Today

Here’s a study that should warm hands and hearts. Regular consumption of chocolate milk—including hot cocoa—may reduce the inflammation that contributes to heart disease.

• Seven Great Party Recipes
• Trading Cookies
• Tasteful Baking Gifts
• Hot Mulled Wine
• Roasted Butternut Squash Soup With Honey-Pecan Butter
• Oven-Roasted Autumn Vegetables
• Olive Oil Mashed Potatoes
• Wilted Baby Spinach With Raisins and Pine Nuts
• Cranberry Upside-Down Cake
• Myth-Buster: Does Turkey Make You Sleepy?

Holiday Travel

By Peter Greenberg

Need a break from the Yuletide madness? Skip town for a cheap year-end vacation.

Big Cities, Small Prices

By Laura Daily

Some of the world's most expensive cities, like Tokyo, just got more affordable. Here's where to find big winter deals.

• Hot Deals on Winter Vacations
• Holiday Flight Tips
• Gas Comparison Web Sites
• Ship and Save on Your Luggage
• Luggage Shipping Companies
• Airline Bag Fee Chart

Create the Good

By AARP.org

AARP is calling on its members to Create The Good in their neighborhoods this holiday season. Get involved!

Voluntourism

By Peter Greenberg

Want to experience a vacation with real meaning? Try a volunteer vacation. It's a great way to immerse yourself in another culture, while giving back and having a great time.

• Find Fun Ways to Give Back
• Living Green Year-Round
• Charitable Giving Calculator
• Brother, Can I Lend You a Hand?

Single for the Holidays? You Don't Have to Be

By Dr. Pepper Schwartz

Here are the top-five things to do for holiday happiness—all guaranteed to make single people just as happy as anybody else for the rest of this year. Maybe happier, actually—some of those couples you are watching might enviously wish they could be you…

Video Slideshow: Santa School

By Bulletin Today

Each fall, dozens of people from across the country descend upon the Charles W. Howard Santa Claus School in Midland, Mich., for three intensive days of training in all things Santa. The school’s mission is to uphold the traditions and preserve the history of Santa Claus. Ultimately, these highly trained Christmas ambassadors are dispatched around the country to spread joy and holiday cheer to thousands of children.

• AARP Radio: Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel!
• Bring Your Family Stories to Life
• A Virtual Family Gathering
• Get Crafty With the Grandkids
• Family Holidays: Chaos or Cheer?
• Tips for Cooking With Grandkids
• Stop, Fluffy! Not the Poinsettia!
• Grandparents: Six Gift Ideas to Bridge the Distance
• Ask at Holiday Time: Are Your Parents OK?
• Keep Your Family in High-Tech Touch
• When Your Parents' Money Is Your Problem