Personal Investments • How do YOU integrate cognitive decline with investment...
We simplified our portfolio and reduced the number of accounts we have opened. We keep our financial documents up-to-date. We trained our sons to manage their own brokerage account. We are in the...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • What is an easement worth?
In response to your initial question, the only guide is looking for a local comparable. Usually there are a couple title companies in the area that do a majority of the title insurance work, maybe you...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Chicken bone broth
What's the difference between bone broth and stock?Bone broth is slow simmered, 16 hours or so. Stock can be done in 1-2 hoursStatistics: Posted by bob60014 — Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:26 pm — Replies 6 —...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • How many credit cards do you have
I currently have 6 and carry 3. I've considered the 5% cards or Bank of America, and I've passed on the rotating categories cards.UMB Simply - 3% for grocery, gas, food, discount storesFNBO Evergreen...
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Investing - Theory, News & General • Can you do better than BND, Part 2:...
For grins, I decided to assemble the bear and the bull market performance lines onto one chart.<snip>The most surprising element in the comparison is the performance of the long Treasury/T-bill...
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Non-US Investing • Big Mistake! [out of the market]
I know all the arguments for it, but dollar cost averaging is, IMO, silly. It tortures and delays what is actually a very simple thing. If your objective is to be in the market, then be in the market....
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Ego vs Greenworks self propelled mower
Bought a Kobalt 80volt self propelled 5 years ago for $350 during fall clearance- it’s been an awesome mower. I easily get 75-90 minutes on a charge. Have another small 80v battery from othe Kobalt...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Opinions on Vanguard check writing services
Anyone have experience with Vanguard check writing services connected to their money market account?I signed up for check writing services and ordered a checkbook. Wondering if its worth it or if i...
View ArticleInvesting - Theory, News & General • Underspending Paradox
I believe HousePain's question is one of philosophy/psychology rather than economics. With a 4 mil portfolio, a pension, no debt, modest spending needs and wants, and SS soon all added, there is no...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Idea of buying land for family restaurant
If you're going to acquire a $2M+ piece of commercial real estate you also have to consider what use or value the property might have if the family business closed and you had to seek other tenants....
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Maxifi - First to Die Considerations w...
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View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • High Quality Patio Dining Furniture
Another vote for Pollywood.We have a 7 piece dining set on the back deck that stays outside all year.It's heavy, doesn't move around in the wind and still looks good.We had a problem with one of the...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Please help me organize the fixed income part of my...
The info above was that space in the TSP is limited. Holding cash or short-term instruments is based on being able to exchange them at the portfolio level for TSP G (which has stickier rates than...
View ArticleInvesting - Theory, News & General • Trading Treasuries (nominal and TIPS)
Anyone looking at Schwab right now? Don't see any min = 1 quotes available. Smallest min = 10 right now (11:30am PST 3/28).Statistics: Posted by silvergga — Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:37 pm — Replies 4193 —...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Is there a Boglehead consensus on how much...
Statistically speaking I'm guessing that driving is likely the most dangerous activity the average American engages in in a day-to-day basis, but I'm also thinking that $500,000 coverage limits = over...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Give spouse 1099-NEC filing jointly
Is the spouse a contractor, employee, partner, co-owner?contractorStatistics: Posted by goru1 — Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:41 pm — Replies 2 — Views 206
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Incorrect 1099-R from Vanguard
I converted X number of shares of a Vanguard mutual fund from my IRA to my Roth IRA on 12/29/2023. When Vanguard calculated the dollar amount of the conversion, they used the closing price from...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Retirement budget planning and trying to...
I would say it is too early to try to plan a retirement budget. I would stay focused on the accumulation phase. I created a 15-year accumulation plan at age 35 to review once I reached 50. The...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • can someone please explain HSA use for a...
I thought ACA couldn't offer a high deductible plan?Nothing - as far as I know - against ACA and HDHP...But as the "actual plans offered" vary so drastically by location, it really depends on if an...
View ArticleNon-US Investing • Career break to maximise time with kids?
There is an important point. The kids learn by the parents as they act and not as they talk.In other words you’ll be a model for your kids.I went to school with the children of investment bankers,...
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