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If you're strictly looking for LCOL, I know of many small-ish cities in the South that would fit the bill, but I'm not sure I would live there because I would go crazy from lack of anything to do other than visit the local Wal-mart. Small-college towns do have some cultural amenities. Probably not ...

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livesoft wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 11, 2017 12:00 pm
ALL of them.

So you might as well go with a total stock market fund, if you aren't in one already. Vanguard's Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) is up more than 1% so far today.

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can I bing in the package to the post office with 20 37c first class stamps already applied on the box to help pay for the $11.15 total cost to send the package? My understanding is yes - the postal service scanners are supposed to have the smarts to convert the forever type stamps to the current "...

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e5116 wrote: ↑
Wed Sep 06, 2017 11:28 pm
check out a Swedish bakery in Andersonville

And while you're at it, having gone all the way up to Andersonville, check out the Swedish American Museum.

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For most people, unlike some or most of us Bogleheads, Social Security will cover a major fraction of their retirement spending. The median household income is about $55K, which would probably give about $25K in SS at FRA.

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i can buy a lot more shares of SCHB than i would VTI SCHB is about $60 per share whereas VTI is about $126 per share, so with (say) $3000 you can indeed buy more shares of SCHB. That doesn't make any difference except that with SCHB you're more likely to have less money left over from the fractiona...

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LoveMyDog wrote: ↑
Wed Sep 06, 2017 5:59 pm
Maybe they control the number of people allowed on a train somehow?

That's what the special tickets are for, no?

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Chicago History Museum

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If you want to compare your withdrawal rate with the values that are often bandied about here (the famous 4%, or other people's 3% or 2% or even the 1.4% that someone just today or yesterday wrote that he was aiming for), then you should include "harvested" dividends in that rate. As far as I know, ...

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But there is certainly no reason to be significantly *less* aggressive than 60/40 with a 2% withdrawal rate. If you don't care about heirs/bequests then of course you could be more conservative just as you could also burn a $100 bill every night before going to bed. It seems there are two kinds of ...

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However, the CREF accounts do behave like mutual funds, with minimal restrictions on trades, transfers, rollovers etc. The CREF accounts differ from mutual funds in the way they handle dividends from the individual stocks that they contain. A mutual fund distributes the dividends to you. You can ei...

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4% failed for people who retired in 1966/1969. But the stock market crash didn't come until late 1973-1974. Surely the bigger factor in that failure wasn't the 1973/74 downturn, but rather the long period of a stagnant stock market combined with high inflation. Here's a cool chart showing the DJIA ...

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Can someone explain the bond/TIPS ladder? How is that income for retirement? From what I'm reading you reinvest the principal, No, you spend the principal. Each year, one bond or TIPS matures. Its value is enough to cover that year's expenses, or only your "floor" expenses if that's how you designe...

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Many of us probably personally know people who "stress tested" their finances via longevity. My MIL lived to 99 and spent her last 8 years in a nursing home. She still managed to leave some money behind because when she could no longer keep up her house, she sold it and moved to be near us in a LCOL...

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For a total of about $50 per year, you can buy your own domain name and a basic website-hosting service plan. Put up some simple web pages with your images and you can hotlink to them from forums etc. If you have even just a smidgen of coding ability, it takes only a small bare-bones subset of HTML ...

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Worrying about grammar and spelling on a web forum is a sure road madness. I'm happy when people don't mix up "then" and "than". On this forum, the one that jumps out at me is people using "principle" to mean "principal", as in "I don't want to spend my principle." Some days I wonder if "principal"...

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My property taxes run me about $1100/yr About the same for us until last year, when we became eligible for the senior citizen's exemption which cut it by about 1/3. On the other hand, when we were still earning normal salaries, we were paying state income tax at 7% marginal and about 5% effective r...

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If I never buy more shares, will I always have 740 shares of VFFVX? Most likely you will end up with more shares. Most mutual funds have dividends and capital gains, and when they are issued your number of shares goes up. If you re-invest dividends and capital gains distributions in the same fund, ...

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How does pension and ss factor into this rule? Can you start with more than 4-4.5% if in 8-10 yrs a pension and ss can cover 1/3-1/2 of spending? Sure. You can estimate this with Firecalc. For example, with an initial balance of $1.0M, a 40-year withdrawal period, and no SS, a spending rate of $33K...

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I live in the totality zone in upstate SC, so I didn't have to travel. After the eclipse, on the evening news of one of the TV stations in Greenville SC, the live traffic maps showed "red" on the northbound lanes of I-85 through Spartanburg towards the NC border, and on the southbound lanes past And...

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Thanks, lack_y, your graph above makes my point. The money market fund beat BND last year in a climate of anticipated and actual rate hikes. Since this will likely continue, Let's all come back in three months with a new one-year graph that starts at the bottom of BND's dip, and see how the compari...

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Here's what I have at the moment. People use different definitions of "cash", so add up the items that fit your definition:

Folding green stuff: 0.02%
Checking accounts: 1.25%
Brokerage settlement fund (money market): 0.22%
CD: 3.70%

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livesoft wrote:https://www.tiaa.org/public/pdf/RC_Comp ... _8_fin.pdf

Beware the footnote:

1. Income and withdrawal options are subject to the terms of the employer plan.

To be sure about your options for getting money out, you need to read the terms of your employer's plan.

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BHUser27 wrote:It is very likely that separate receiver boxes will be the norm for the first 3.0 broadcasts.

As they were for ATSC 1.0 originally. I still have a couple of standalone HDTV tuners from c. 2005 in my closet, and I still use an HDTV that has no built-in ATSC tuner. I use it with a TiVo that does.

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Some of the models do not have a TV tuner in them now which means they cannot be hooked up to an antenna for over the air broadcasts so watch out for that. When I last shopped for a TV several years ago, the FCC required that devices without tuners had to be labeled as "monitors", not "TVs". I don'...

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If you don't have the card any more, so you can't look up the phone number on it, go directly to the Capital One web site (use a Google search if you don't remember the address), and look up the customer support phone number there. If the e-mail gives a phone number, don't use it without verifying i...

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daveydoo wrote:If you're on municipal, you can call them but you're generally safe (Detroit, blah, blah, blah, I know).

Detroit's water is OK, as far as I know. Its neighbor Flint got into trouble when it stopped buying water from Detroit and started taking it from the Flint River instead, to save money.

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We pay someone to mow our lawn. Well worth it in our hot muggy Southern summers. :beer My solution is location, location, location. Nobody can see our lawn unless they drive 700 feet off the road, up a hill through the woods. Unfortunately for that solution, we're in a very visible location. It's a...

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Next, you need to estimate your retirement income: pension (if any), SS, RMDs (after taxes have been paid on the withdrawals), annuities,... What is the shortfall between your expenses and income? I would argue that RMDs are not really "income" in the sense of this calculation, because they are alr...

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I'm concerned about the lack of growth potential with this approach. Sure, your tax-deferred accounts won't grow as fast because they have more bonds, but your taxable accounts will grow faster because they have more stocks. You'll have smaller RMDs, hence less taxes to pay on them, at normal incom...

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You have basically summarized a choice between a "dividends only" strategy and a "total return" strategy. Be forewarned that this is a subject of often-heated debate here, for example in this thread which is currently ongoing: https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=224108 and this ear...

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dwickenh wrote:You forgot GREED, an emotion that humans find hard to resist.

Even on this forum, witness the number of people looking for some kind of "edge" via tilting, sector bets, stock-picking and dividend-chasing.

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We pay someone to mow our lawn. Well worth it in our hot muggy Southern summers.

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You pay tax on the capital gains: the difference between what you paid for the shares that you sell (the "cost basis"), and the price that you sell them at. You didn't say how much you paid for the shares, so it's impossible to say how much tax you'll pay when you sell some of them. (We can of cours...

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Based on the red and assuming one auto-reinvests....how would one re-balance if they held BND? as they'd need to sell "all" of it (?) to shift $$ into back into equities during a market downturn. No, you don't have to sell all of your BND, just a whole number of shares. If you have 120.6472 shares,...

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Don't rush. For now, I would put the money in a savings account or a CD, depending on how soon you think you may actually need it, and what interest rates you can find. You won't get a whole lot of interest, but you should be able to get 1% or so, which is better than nothing. Then read the article ...

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You can use http://www.firecalc.com/ to simulate how your portfolio would have fared under various withdrawal rates, for periods ranging from the late 1800s up to recent times, including the Great Depression, the 1970s stagflation, etc.

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What are your current expenses, and what you do you expect/want them to be when you retire? It makes a difference whether you're in a low- or medium-cost-of-living area with relatively inexpensive lifestyle, hobbies and/or travel, or in a high cost-of-living area, go to expensive restaurants and enj...

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We need bots to help on the buying side though. We need bots that will contact the Hollys and negotiate a price based on what we want. And do other things for us, representing our interests and priorities, not the vendor's. "Good morning, sir! While you were sleeping I renegotiated your car lease, ...

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If she needs the $15K for just one or two years, she can get part of it from dividends from the $200K in a suitable stock or bond index fund, and sell some shares from those funds to get the rest of it. Or simply set aside $30K in a savings account for this purpose and invest the remaining $170K wit...

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International bonds are a rather new component of Vanguard's target retirement and other balanced funds. A lot of people here are skeptical about them and prefer to stick with a 3-fund portfolio using only domestic bonds (e.g. Total Bond Market). So I think it would be reasonable to replace the inte...

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Generally, when Apple introduces a new model of one of its devices, they cut the price of the preceding model to clear out stock. Therefore, if you don't need the "latest and greatest", you can save some money by buying the preceding model shortly after the new one appears. New desktop Macs and iPho...

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Johnstown Inclined Plane - worth a ride up and down from the bottom. Note that the Johnstown Inclined Plane is different from the two inclines in Pittsburgh, because it carries both passengers and vehicles. The cars are much larger. If you're so inclined (heh), you can pay the extra fare and drive ...

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What if your stipend gets cut back because of poor grades? It happened to me; my assistantship was cut back from 1/2-time to 1/4-time for a semester. What if you decide to bail out of academia, or you don't get a postdoc... how long would it take you to find a "real job"? Your emergency fund should ...

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A bit specialized, but what the heck (I've actually visited these at various times, with one exception, and enjoyed them): East Liverpool, Ohio: the Pottery Museum chronicles the now mostly-gone pottery industry in the area around the northern bend of the Ohio River. If you're into college football,...

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While dividends are taxed as ordinary income, long term capital gains are usually taxed at a lower rate. My father-in-law worked for the original AT&T (pre-breakup) so my wife inherited shares of various post-breakup descendants. Last year she received dividends from AT&T, Verizon, CenturyLink and ...

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https://www.cancer.org/latest-news/world-health-organization-says-processed-meat-causes-cancer.html Overall, the lifetime risk of someone developing colon cancer is 5%. To put the numbers into perspective, the increased risk from eating the amount of processed meat in the study would raise average ...

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Perhaps I am missing something but how can you add $20k to your IRA accounts as a catch-up? :?: I think you're missing that this is a SIMPLE IRA for self-employed folks. (At least that's how I interpret his statement.) The contribution limits are higher for these than for ordinary IRAs (traditional...

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Welcome to Bogleheads!

The Bogleheads Wiki has a page about this question:

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/ETFs_vs_mutual_funds

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Also what does the employer do about the missing worker's responsibilities? Is it just "piled" on top of the same level workers or do they hire temps? They would probably set their overall staffing level taking into account that a certain number would be away at any given time, and shuffle duties a...

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