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- Thu Jun 01, 2017 3:33 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Senility: How do you plan on protecting your money when you lose your mental capacities?
- Replies: 72
- Views: 10060
Re: Senility: How do you plan on protecting your money when you lose your mental capacities?
I've resigned to being pillaged, by seductress or seductor. I shall be among the frail and the limping. The savage eyes of the beast will take note.
- Tue May 13, 2014 9:58 am
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: To: Taylor Larimore: Early Withdrawals
- Replies: 46
- Views: 8034
To: Taylor Larimore: Early Withdrawals
I recollect somewhere that you retired at fifty-seven without the advantages of chat boards, number crunchers and the chattering classes. Did you begin to withdraw from your portfolio at that early age with only your wits? That you managed so well from fifty-seven to almost ninety must have involved a special strategy since you did not yet know of the 4% withdrawal rules.
- Thu May 08, 2014 8:58 am
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: I like the investment strategy , not really the lifestyle
- Replies: 67
- Views: 9591
Re: I like the investment strategy , not really the lifestyl
It is indeed hard to save money for retirement. The one colossal issue is to give in to the idea of one day being old. This is why automatic investing is a good thing, even though you're still convinced, like Sally Bowles, you'd rather be good looking corpse.
- Sat May 03, 2014 8:07 am
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: "Advice I'll Pass On To My Daughter" [Clements column]
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2432
Re: "Advice I'll Pass On To My Daughter"
I keep checking the weekend edition of the WSJ for his articles. What day does his column appear?
- Fri Apr 25, 2014 8:00 am
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: enough to retire?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 12585
Re: enough to retire?
Congrats & good luck. Live. Live. Live. Pay no mind to the "delayers".
- Wed Apr 16, 2014 4:23 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Baby Boomers: Top 10 Movies
- Replies: 49
- Views: 15829
Re: Baby Boomers: Top 10 Movies
The Godfather for sheer size & impact. Breathless, with Belmondo & Seberg, for utter cool & chic, and still remaining utterly cool.
- Tue Apr 15, 2014 12:14 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Jack on Bloomberg Today...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2306
Re: Jack on Bloomberg Today...
Missed: Is there a link?
- Sun Apr 06, 2014 7:36 am
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Jonathan Clements to return to Wall Street Journal Sunday.
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4468
Re: Jonathan Clements to return to Wall Street Journal Sunda
They were both of them interviewed by Consuelo Mack on her show this weekend. Nothing said about index funds. A good deal said about thinking of SS as your annuity.
- Wed Apr 02, 2014 10:58 am
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Mr. Money Mustache: Hero or Foolish?
- Replies: 452
- Views: 125576
Re: Mr. Money Mustache: Hero or Foolish?
I am constantly fascinated by people who live this way. So inspirational. In like manner, expats of all kinds interest me. Not for the weak of mind for sure.
- Sun Mar 30, 2014 1:55 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Frugal Fatigue
- Replies: 96
- Views: 15311
Re: Frugal Fatigue
How depressing. Is that all there is, is that all there is? in the words of the late Peggy Lee.
- Tue Mar 25, 2014 4:54 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Frugality regret: What thing do you regret not spending on?
- Replies: 208
- Views: 51963
Re: Frugality regret: What thing do you regret not spending
A ticket to see Lena Horne's great comeback, & generosity to now dead friends.
- Sat Mar 15, 2014 11:07 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Was frugality a mistake? The downsides of saving too much.
- Replies: 115
- Views: 26498
Re: Was frugality a mistake? The downsides of saving too mu
Has your frugality stopped you from getting some counseling? Can't one be as neurotic about frugality as about spending?
- Sun Feb 09, 2014 10:30 am
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: Retire by 55?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7364
Re: Retire by 55?
Not knowing your lifestyle, its impossible to say. Go for it; enjoy what remains.
- Sun Feb 02, 2014 5:33 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: NY Times:For Some, Retirement Is Out of Reach. For Others, B
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4082
Re: NY Times:For Some, Retirement Is Out of Reach. For Other
People who find retirement boring don't have the imagination. For example, Being committed also gets Arline Tarte going. In 2000, after a long career at the helm of a commercial printing firm, Ms. Tarte, now 71, left the industry for good. For two years, she played bridge, went to the theater and ballet, saw jazz concerts. But she says she found it uninspiring at best. “I was used to doing all that and running a company that was very involved,” she said. “It was boring.” Here you have a New Yorker with the best playground in the world at her feet, who's got bored with a few activities she's tried. Victoria Yes, but the NYT carefully quoted someone who is probably not very interesting anyhow. Lots of retired NYers are interesting and discov...
- Sun Feb 02, 2014 1:02 am
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Another Social Security spin......
- Replies: 48
- Views: 4150
Re: Another Social Security spin......
What would be the lifetime amount differences between early benefits and later benefits? 100K? 200K? I am not too impressed.
- Tue Jan 07, 2014 7:40 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Dating, Gender, & Wealth Differences...
- Replies: 102
- Views: 9303
Re: Dating, Gender, & Wealth Differences...
Why marry now? The pickings are slim and many used cars on the lot. If you can afford it, marry a beauty.
- Fri Jan 03, 2014 7:15 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Non-retirees: Envisioning Retirement
- Replies: 62
- Views: 7778
Re: Non-retirees: Envisioning Retirement
There is always envy of everything. Myself, I am never envious of workers, but of those who have never worked at all.
- Fri Jan 03, 2014 8:45 am
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Life after retirement
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3094
Re: Life after retirement
Just so happens "Revolutionary Road" is on HBO. Take off on an African safari solo.
- Tue Dec 31, 2013 7:42 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Advice for studying abroad in Spain?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2696
Re: Advice for studying abroad in Spain?
Aren't the unemployment numbers staggering? Tell her to watch her back.
- Sat Dec 28, 2013 12:13 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: I think low cost of living trumps retiring in a no state in
- Replies: 80
- Views: 7807
Re: I think low cost of living trumps retiring in a no state
I am always surprised that there is so little interest in moving to international destinations on this site. I mean, really, is there a tangible difference between Portland or Seattle or Florida or Colorado? Aside from California and New York, its all a blur. Why aren't the financial perks of moving to foreign locations considered more?
- Sat Dec 28, 2013 9:51 am
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Wolf of Wall St - victims still seeking compensation
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4501
Re: Wolf of Wall St - victims still seeking compensation
Wolf doesn't work well as movie. Investigative Discovery's "American Greed" delivers a consistent punch.
- Fri Dec 27, 2013 9:48 am
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: What you wish you had known entering your late 20's
- Replies: 128
- Views: 34627
Re: What you wish you had known entering your late 20's
That life is short, really, really short.
- Sun Nov 24, 2013 7:55 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Medical/Dental Tourism?
- Replies: 91
- Views: 7644
Re: Medical/Dental Tourism?
While visiting a developing country I needed an emergency procedure. My first desire was to rid myself of discomfort while fleeing. The consultations were great, the care was exceptional (being a U.S citizen gave me a leg up, I know). The final bill was a joke: I kept waiting for the remainder the arrive.
- Thu Nov 14, 2013 5:19 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: Do Bogleheads have a number?
- Replies: 118
- Views: 14312
Re: Do Bogleheads have a number?
"Funny, How Gravity Pulls Us, And the Safety Net Is an Illusion" goes the heading of a stellar review of a little produced Beckett play yesterday. Beckett always punctures my dearest, and sweetest certainties.
- Thu Nov 14, 2013 7:13 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: The Boglehead View on Squirrels
- Replies: 112
- Views: 11118
Re: The Boglehead View on Squirrels
No, I think of visitations from the other world. How views differ. Where I live squirrels are adored and fed.sscritic wrote:When you are lying in your bed at night and you hear the pitter patter of little feet over your head in the attic, do you first think squirrel or rat?
- Mon Nov 11, 2013 10:52 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: If you were retired, how would you spend your time?
- Replies: 90
- Views: 12884
Re: If you were retired, how would you spend your time?
How dreary. Retirement: too bad it comes at the end of life. Imagine having all that time to make love while one was still hot.
- Mon Nov 11, 2013 10:34 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Financial failures
- Replies: 55
- Views: 5417
Re: Financial failures
Well, my entire youth was rife with financial failures. But very well spent, mind you. Ah, what memories.
- Sun Oct 20, 2013 7:27 am
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: A Soft Shoe Strut Down Vegas
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1615
A Soft Shoe Strut Down Vegas
The weekend WSJ has an article,"Investing for the Fun of It", in which John Bogle and Burton Malkiel each admit to stock picking, but only as a hobby, once the serious business of indexing of retirement funds have been concluded. One instance of one investor uses as much as 5-8% of his portfolio as "fun money". "Enjoy the fun of gambling and the thrill of the chase, but not with your rent money and certainly not with college education funds for your children, nor with your retirement nest egg," warns Mr. Bogle. Does anyone else use extra money from their portfolio to go to the races?
- Sat Oct 19, 2013 2:23 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Just hit the million mark net worth today
- Replies: 98
- Views: 13482
Re: Just hit the million mark net worth today
Well done. Now that you've been back-slapped by all, where is our champagne?
- Fri Oct 18, 2013 8:15 am
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Boglehead Wisdom on Family Will & Inheritance
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2662
Re: Boglehead Wisdom on Family Will & Inheritance
Not clear why you haven't returned to your teaching job.
- Tue Oct 15, 2013 8:57 am
- Forum: US Chapters
- Topic: On my way to the Bogleheads reunion!
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4168
Re: On my way to the Bogleheads reunion!
Are the conference locations ever enticing?
- Fri Oct 11, 2013 7:35 am
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: A Boglehead Running the Fed!
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4840
Re: A Boglehead Running the Fed!
I also seem to remember the President being in a Vanguard Fund. The impact of this knowledge didn't seem too significant.
- Mon Oct 07, 2013 1:02 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Parents close to retirement
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1662
Re: Parents close to retirement
Where exactly is "homeland"? Retiring to say, Mexico, would be different than retreating to France.
- Thu Sep 26, 2013 4:02 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Early retirement to Florida
- Replies: 177
- Views: 25675
Re: Early retirement to Florida
Anybody waiting for the finale of "Breaking Bad"; NM looks charming, in an off-color sort of way.
- Wed Sep 25, 2013 5:50 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Early retirement to Florida
- Replies: 177
- Views: 25675
Re: Early retirement to Florida
Good luck with this new chapter. N.C. has Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill and is seasonal. Depending on your sensibilities, the exotic wildlife finding its way these days to Florida may be something to consider, e.g., pythons.
- Fri Aug 30, 2013 5:30 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Anyone regret saving too much and not spending when younger?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 14471
Re: Anyone regret saving too much and not spending when youn
Youth was wonderful. It was expensive though. Living in one of the greatest cities in the world didn't help. Knew a great many people that didn't make it. Rather dull now. More money, but older flesh. Regret I think not.
- Tue Aug 27, 2013 8:43 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Hedonic treadmill in retirement
- Replies: 107
- Views: 12392
Re: Hedonic treadmill in retirement
The cure of boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. -Dorothy Parker
- Sat Aug 24, 2013 7:26 am
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: It’s the income, stupid!
- Replies: 139
- Views: 24696
Re: It’s the income, stupid!
So happy to see Ms. Austen quoted, and with such pertinence. Clear as a bell.
- Wed Aug 14, 2013 4:24 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Forbes Article: Why Don't Retirees Buy Annuities?
- Replies: 66
- Views: 12369
Re: Forbes Article: Why Don't Retirees Buy Annuities?
Taylor's recommendation to delay annuities till late life will be my preference.
- Tue Aug 13, 2013 11:38 am
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: House broken into, social security number stolen
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1573
Re: House broken into, social security number stolen
A story to leave you gasping: someone stalking inside your home as you sleep. Robbing you of your future ability to sleep seems worse than items was taken.
- Tue Aug 13, 2013 9:39 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: i'm thinking [of] retiring in Hawaii ( retired already)
- Replies: 38
- Views: 8204
Re: i'm thinking [of] retiring in Hawaii ( retired already)
Do you share your loot with anyone, or are you single or free-spirited? If the latter, go for it. I'm jealous.
- Sun Aug 04, 2013 7:56 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Tipping
- Replies: 101
- Views: 12473
Re: Tipping
Good question. For I am always resentful that I must give it up unless the service is impeccable. Where I live one tips for everything and as a consequence it is often undeserved and a gesture of no meaning other than a pay off to prevent confrontation. Other societies are somewhat mystified by this American habit.
- Sun Jul 28, 2013 12:24 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Really hard to avoid "Keeping up with the Joneses"!
- Replies: 313
- Views: 37312
Re: Really hard to avoid "Keeping up with the Joneses"!
Ah, keeping up with the Joneses has cost me a good deal. Self-reproach is constant. But what a relief not to have the need to compete for consummerism. I am slumming these days and rather enjoying it. I have an unrelenting urge to spend my years living in a hotel, like Carlos Slim prefers, though as a Bogleheard modert.
- Sat Jul 27, 2013 6:52 am
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: lost job - can I retire now
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7771
Re: lost job - can I retire now
Congratulations. However, you did not say what sort of lifestyle you want to embrace after retirement. For all I know, you may want to join the Peace Corp, go live half the year in the Phillipines, or spend your idle time shopping in Neiman Marcus. Having no children or grand-kids will change the game for you and how you handle your savings. Good-luck.
- Fri Jul 19, 2013 7:56 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: NYC, Philly, Boston, or Chicago?
- Replies: 102
- Views: 14480
Re: NYC, Philly, Boston, or Chicago?
Not knowing you, its rather difficult. New York is the height of culture and sophistication, not to mention global opportunities. As a young man, the giddy social life might appeal, with its low to high variety. The city's energy alone is worth the price of admission.
- Wed Jul 17, 2013 7:24 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Consumerism and Happiness
- Replies: 83
- Views: 10337
Re: Consumerism and Happiness
I seem to remember, in Sunday's NYT Real Estate, an article about whether the buying of a house makes people happy. In most cases, the purchase does not. Realtors agree that if misery existed before moving into the penthouse it will surely linger after the move. Interesting article at any rate, and perhaps it says something about your concerns.
- Mon Jun 17, 2013 5:47 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Your worst financial habit
- Replies: 84
- Views: 13850
Re: Your worst financial habit
Whatever is spent, in retrospect, never seems worth it. The glamour of spending is always what I could buy, not what I do buy.
- Sat Jun 08, 2013 11:49 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: a really depressing ny times article on retirement
- Replies: 67
- Views: 11285
Re: a really depressing ny times article on retirement
Worth considering. A million is still considerable wealth; just ask the majority who don't, nor ever will, have it.Bob's not my name wrote:I didn't know anybody read the NYT anymore.
- Sun Jun 02, 2013 6:54 am
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: All Stocks Anyone?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 10878
All Stocks Anyone?
In the weekend WSJ article, "The 100% Stock Solution", it states instances in which an all equity portfolio may be fitting. This strategy flies against Mr. Bogle's philosophy, or does it? Do any Bogleheads go full throttle with an all stock portfolio?
- Fri May 24, 2013 9:02 am
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Didn't save enough for retirement, what would you do over?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 11744
Re: Didn't save enough for retirement, what would you do ove
Seduced and married an old moneyed heir.