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- Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:00 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: You'll probably be dead by 80
- Replies: 64
- Views: 10321
- Wed Mar 18, 2009 8:50 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Double taxation: 1099-INT (Saving account/CDs)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3454
- Wed Mar 18, 2009 7:13 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What can you use instead of a bank safe deposit box?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6716
I deal a lot with safes as a hobby of mine. If you're going to get a safe for burglary protection then make sure it is built well. They are a lightening rod for burglars so you must ensure they can survive an assault with commonly used tools. Expect to pay more for a good safe. Many safes you see in the stores are not well made unfortunately. A generic gun safe that was easily burglarized: http://crawlingroad.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/genericgunsafe.jpg Another gun safe that was burglarized: http://crawlingroad.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/libertyburglary2.jpg A Sentry fire safe that I blasted open with a sledgehammer in about two minutes just as a demonstration: http://crawlingroad.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/smas...
- Wed Mar 18, 2009 7:08 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What can you use instead of a bank safe deposit box?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6716
- Wed Mar 18, 2009 10:45 am
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: Paying cash for a vacation home in today's market.
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5171
- Tue Mar 17, 2009 7:07 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Squeak when I lift foot off brake
- Replies: 28
- Views: 100643
When I lift my foot off of the brake, it squeaks also. Are you sure it is not your knee like mine is?Jim Squeaking when you lift your foot off the brake is an indication that the calipers are not releasing. For disc brakes, the calipers hold the brake pads. They close when you step on the brake pedal. If they get rusty, they won't release cleanly. The rotors are designed to throw the calipers open when the wheel starts turning. This isn't happening as it should. Without going into further detail, you need to take it to a mechanic to fix it. He/she will probably charge some $$ to take the caliper assembly apart and clean / lube. If you don't do this, the pads will wear prematurely, the rotors will get hot and reduce braking efficiency (long...
- Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:35 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: Your Opinion Please-Update
- Replies: 51
- Views: 11346
- Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:14 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Returning new pants to store after washing?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 24402
- Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:06 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Favorite TV Police/Crime Dramas...
- Replies: 91
- Views: 14521
- Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:02 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: In the market for a laptop.... suggestion please
- Replies: 62
- Views: 10133
- Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:55 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Dolphin bubbles
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2745
Great utube vidio, right now Im in walking distance from the Dolphin research and rescue center in grassy key FL, they really are amazingly intelligent. The staff was going to lift a wheelchair bound individual in with them via a special lift for doing that however last minute the individual chickened out( I know the person). I think the individual missed out as im still able to snorkle---Sombreo reef is truly AMAZING.
- Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:33 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Squeak when I lift foot off brake
- Replies: 28
- Views: 100643
- Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:24 am
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Inflation Hedging beyond TIPS and Commodities
- Replies: 39
- Views: 6059
- Sat Mar 14, 2009 8:17 am
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Buying a cash-only home in HI - any advice?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3833
- Sat Mar 14, 2009 7:48 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Florida Residents?!
- Replies: 44
- Views: 7712
- Fri Mar 13, 2009 6:19 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Madoff and Vanguard
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6662
X2........ try elsewhere, if you like more risk! And im a skeptical/trust but verify type*. A new aquaintence just told me to F-OFF because I told her I was running''' her because I need no one around me thats ""uncertified"" in my book..~chaz wrote:It's no concern to me. Vanguard is the best place to invest IMO.
- Fri Mar 13, 2009 6:08 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Article: # Millionaires Shrinks in 2008
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3048
- Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:51 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: BOGLEHEADS 8 ANNUAL REUNION ANNOUNCEMENT
- Replies: 265
- Views: 103173
- Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:07 am
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: xx
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2103
Not to be a bummer but I've seen alot of vacation spots going belly up in the FL keys over the last 2 yrs Ive vacationed there. Last year the place Im at right now had to close in the off season because it was costing -30 bucks a day just to keep the doors open and electriticy on, another place on the same MM jojos" closed. But the large chains are surviving. (sp)and there are a few more .gov services being put forward +(the erosion suppression on the roads).
- Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:06 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Jim Cramer gets bad press
- Replies: 50
- Views: 9783
- Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:03 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: Variable Annuities
- Replies: 60
- Views: 9336
I couldnt say it better than Mel,.......plus hes qualifiedMel Lindauer wrote:I'd like to second the recommendations you just received from DSInvestor. There's absolutely no reason to even consider a VA for your 401k rollover, since the VA adds extra layers of cost while restricting the investment options available to you. And, to add insult to injury, VAs normally come with long surrender periods, so that you're stuck when you find out how lousy the VA investment is.
I don't know who recommended the VA to you, but I'd guess it was someone who will make a nice juicy commission for selling it to you. You really don't want to deal with someone who puts their interest before yours.
- Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:56 am
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Dow 19,000 in 3 years
- Replies: 33
- Views: 6314
- Wed Mar 11, 2009 1:45 am
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Best car insurance
- Replies: 50
- Views: 9895
- Wed Mar 11, 2009 1:30 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: merits of wiki and forum
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3820
- Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:43 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Signs your getting old, you have any to add...........
- Replies: 92
- Views: 12689
Here here to being 24. My trouble with the age is the ambiguous dating game and ambiguously aged women. You can eliminate married folk by looking for a ring, but you can't find out if they have a serious boyfriend or are under, say, 20 without having a chat. Meh. Perhaps I could just decide that those two criteria don't really matter.... Ryan Dude, that's why I'm currently pursuing the "cougar." I'm 24 like you, and my current peers are women in the law school I attend (thanks, but no thanks), and the beautiful undergrads, many of whom can't legally drink (thanks, but no thanks to the ticket for contributing to the delinquency of a minor). I'm allowed to take up to 6 hours outside of the law school as long as I can justify that t...
- Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:01 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Signs your getting old, you have any to add...........
- Replies: 92
- Views: 12689
I'm in my late 20s, and I feel old. Right there with ya bro. I was reading this thread, and really feeling old because a lot of it I'm starting to experience. It gets better, right? RIGHT!?! NO, NO, NO, IT GETS WORSE! :twisted: Getting old and retaining your physical youth is a mis-nomer I KNOW a few folks that say its not for the weak of heart!!! I need 1000k mg of acietominafine????(sp)to start my day!! --> before I get oot of bed! Of course Ive other chronic PHYSICAL concerns+++++ MANY other neorological issues,But live while you can, the great beyond is un-defined!!!! :shock: Think in 30/40yrs??? Just a FWIIW-->Goood Luckk!! [/b] I wish nothing other than the best for everyone MY having seen as a vollenteer,...... plus I know retired V...
- Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:06 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Buying GM @ 1.40 a share
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4152
Personally i'd rather a better oppourtunity, like a Mels mid cap""favorites*(Mel likes Mid Caps right??)) mid cap bank..... BUT HE he never suggested this I might add individual equites like FITB.~ just my suggestion for U to research if your not a BKX/XLF /KBE/etc. sector type/ Good luck! WELL RUN Banks rule!
- Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:57 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Signs your getting old, you have any to add...........
- Replies: 92
- Views: 12689
- Tue Mar 10, 2009 12:35 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Signs your getting old, you have any to add...........
- Replies: 92
- Views: 12689
Signs your getting old, you have any to add...........
Having passed the great 1/2 century mark a few years back i've noticed i used to have extra periphial and purble*(see like a cat at night) vision in my 20s now i absolutly need glasses to read. :? .My hairline has receeded to the point of i feel like its all migrating south, and need to trim my ear/nose hair(eeeewwww) :oops: more often than get a hair cut :oops: and its greying! Women say it looks distinguished but thats crap, they're all dying theirs! My patience is tried much more often by 20yr olds. S0 i have a great deal of respect for kids who have their '$hit together, about a week ago a kid with a kid(baby) in the back couldnt blow her horn because she had a ice cream in her hand in the car, thus avoiding a bumper bump. :roll: What h...
- Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:27 am
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: we've turned the corner
- Replies: 70
- Views: 11660
- Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:04 am
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Toyota Camry 2003: PCV valve & Brake flush?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4083
Just FWIW I changed EVERYTHING Recently in my car as I worked on cars throughout HS and college. I was looking for the PCV valve, advanced auto sold me one. I took it to the stealership, asked a service employee where it was after looking through a few diagrams myself.........He said he had the same car(MDX-Honda), HE"D never changed the PCV valve on his or any other in for service. Positive crankcase controlvalve=PCV, its usually cleaned easily by just flushing it with gas or a similar solvent, thats what I used to use that, or a carb cleaner........as for the other fluid I"D JUST keep it topped till after 100k. But thats me I really do not think its that much of a worry. Google toyo forums there out there . Good Luck!
- Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:19 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Transmission fluid
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2957
- Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:14 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Any musicians?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 7589
- Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:59 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Is it worth diversifying with an EAFE index? No.
- Replies: 55
- Views: 9308
We see these sorts of rationalizations every time international underperforms US for a while. Just as we see rationalizations in the other direction every time international outperforms. Ignore the noise and hold a constant 20-40% of your equities in international. It's Investing 101: holding and rebalancing between two asset classes with identical long term returns but imperfect correlations will result in higher returns than holding just one of the classes. You also have to understand that correlations between US and international are have constantly changed in the past. They'll run together for a year or two and then diverge wildly for a year or three. There is absolutely no good reason to suspect that this will change in the future. Go...
- Sun Mar 08, 2009 11:25 am
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: Wife wants cash in the mattress: Help.
- Replies: 52
- Views: 10775
- Sun Mar 08, 2009 11:09 am
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: First $10,000 in emerging markets...bad idea?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 5094
Its a bet I wouldnt make, but thats me. I'd suggest you consider the FTSE_XUS that has IIRC 18% EM. Maybe? I hate giving advice should it go wrong but that fund is the whole world including CANADA minus the USA with what i d think alot less volitility.(sp) That could be a core fund holding maybe. Good Luck! :lol:
- Sat Mar 07, 2009 8:24 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: I stimulated the economy today
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3028
- Sat Mar 07, 2009 8:21 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: 05 Toyota Camry or 02 BMW 325i?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 12988
- Sat Mar 07, 2009 8:19 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: Bubblewatch: Get out of Treasuries?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3674
- Fri Mar 06, 2009 11:54 pm
- Forum: US Chapters
- Topic: Why Did You Choose Your Username and Avatar?
- Replies: 377
- Views: 19941
Really liked my nickname i got in HS for running the 50yrd dash in 5.4sec.However im glad I can still help/contribute 8) NOW IM A CRIPPLE/GIMP! but believe me there are others worse off!!!!:( 8) 8) ETA;then i choose the most meaningfull best regulated fairest profession and truly beloved person on the earth!
- Fri Mar 06, 2009 11:15 am
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Reasons to be cheerful
- Replies: 57
- Views: 9617
I'll add mine, if you have your HEALTH, home, and a pursuit that supports you and yours spartanically or oppulantly(sp)you have nothing to about, having vollenteered and still do at various times of the yr at VA hospitals there are many guys that are so worse off than YOU! Think of yourself LIVING in a bed @ 30yrs old all messed up waiting for the great beyond.
- Fri Mar 06, 2009 10:47 am
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Is this the most exicting time in your life?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5765
IMO, NO, BUT THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY for people younger that 55 to buybuybuy more equity positions as Adrian has alluded hes doing. As well as to learn how much risk is to much, like I have in my early twilight yrs. No im not crying im making the best of it but I do not have the time horizion needed to readjust my AA as people with a 30/40 yr time horizion do. Whats that saying a wise man learns from others mistakes, a smart man learns from his own and ...well some never learn. I forgot to keep my wallet in a ziplock plastic bag like last year and dropped it in the ocean(6inches of water) again this year, that makes me ----> :roll: want to kick myself!
- Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:50 am
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: If indexing's dead, does that mean active mgt will prevail?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 6149
- Thu Mar 05, 2009 7:55 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: If you really want a laugh
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2402
- Thu Mar 05, 2009 7:47 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: American Funds
- Replies: 33
- Views: 7373
- Thu Mar 05, 2009 7:39 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: I'm thinking about buying a mountain bike
- Replies: 45
- Views: 6740
- Thu Mar 05, 2009 7:30 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Contest: call the market bottom as it occurs!!
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4808
- Wed Mar 04, 2009 9:10 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Harry Markopolos 60 MINUTES interview
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2058
- Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:43 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What are the jobs of the future
- Replies: 58
- Views: 10585
- Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:18 am
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: House buying is causing marital issues
- Replies: 60
- Views: 9616
Im sorry but this attitude from ANYONE is the just defeatism and wrong! My parents have been married for 63yrs and my fathers of the same attitude, whatever mama wants. Guess what? in the course of their last 20yrs shes wanted 9homes, yes 9. :roll: and hes had to follow her irrational behavior.Are you setting yourself up for this? Id also suggest you two have a 'talk'. GOOD LUCK!dbonnett wrote:I've been happily married for 51 years. NO one is happy until mama is happy. Do what it takes in spite of what seems to make more economic sense. Every thing else is petty detail.