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I helped my parents buy a one-year old Lincoln sedan through Hertz Car Sales last year. Although the car was not cosmetically perfect (typical rental car suitcase scratches on the bumper near the trunk, two wheels had some curb rash, Hertz didn't do much of a job detailing the interior, etc.) the pr...

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Casino trips, once a week. I answered this in early February. My last trip to my favorite casino was on March 13. I want back there on March 15 and it was closed. I cannot wait for it to reopen soon. I am very curious about how the casino experience is going to change when they re-open, especially ...

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I don't even know why you needed to ask us with that income and asset level compared to the price of the boat. Buy the boat if it's what you want. An equivalent comparison would be like me asking if I could buy a good quality new riding lawn mower, and I'm not exactly broke myself.

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I am familiar with a few companies in the midstream energy and public utility sectors that have both a cash balance pension plan that the company alone contributes to, plus a 401k with a match. New hires are eligible for both.

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I have not read the entire thread, so apologies for treading on ground already covered. I am :dollar responsible for office leasing at a F1000 company. We were a company that was totally opposed to WFH before COVID, but we are already talking about how our success working from home will translate i...

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Whenever there was a major layoff of office employees at the companies I've worked for, on the day of the announcement they physically separated the people being laid off from the people continuing their employment. Usually they sent the people still employed either to an off-site meeting or told th...

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If they did an exceptional job, I would have no problem tipping them. I'm usually pretty cheap but I have a soft spot for difficult manual labor done well. To have hard workers who are careful and courteous on a project like this can be somewhat of a rarity today. I'd probably hand it to the foreman...

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OP, check your private messages.

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I enjoy casino gambling, and that environment, but trading stocks is neither fun nor entertaining to me. It creates one more thing in life to stress out about, which I don't need now. I have a small "fun money" brokerage account but just realized it's been sitting in cash and hasn't been touched in ...

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These are some of my favorite quotes from Stop Acting Rich - I was shocked about the country club members Perhaps that is why more than two-thirds of those who are country club members are not millionaires. P 5 Stop Acting Rich I'm a country club member, have been one for many years, and am not a m...

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Unless the landlord is a real nosy snoop, I don't see what the point of them looking up the information is. They could estimate with pretty high probability whether for not the tenant will be receiving a payment just based on the income information/verification the tenant provided to the landlord wh...

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Same issue with golf equipment now. The brick and mortar stores (Golf Galaxy, PGA Super Store, the regional independents, etc.) are all closed here, and many of the online retailers aren't shipping. The few online retailers that are shipping are now sold out of many popular items that are usually al...

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I am a salaried, essential office worker and have been on mandatory WFH since early March. When I'm working from home, if I'm either done with my work for the day, or it's the morning and I know I don't have a ton of work to do and it can wait until the afternoon, I'll just go do something on my own...

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The exit interview I attended when I voluntarily left my last job for something better was a completely pointless waste of time. 5 minutes of idle small talk with a HR middle manager, 10 minutes of being asked to describe policies or procedures I would change or do differently, reasons why I left, e...

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"Needless Markups"

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I don't know. I know a beautiful house in an extremely desirable town/neighborhood in NJ that has been kept up nicely is on sale right now for $1.95 million. It last sold in 2000 for $1.95 million. If it is in one of the areas of NJ that I am very familiar with, the property taxes have probably gon...

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They aren't going to change 401k providers to one that is more expensive for the company in the middle of a pandemic because a guy who just started complained that the fund fees under 1% are too expensive for the employee.

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There is a young entrepreneur in my area who bought a few $1 million+ large homes and spent big money converting them into luxury Airbnb-type "private mini-resorts" with big pools, hottubs, elaborate outdoor firepit things mini-golf courses, basketball courts, 5+ bathrooms, etc. I thought it was nut...

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Maybe 7-8 years ago I purchased a product called "Bark Off", which is an ultrasonic noise-activated device that is supposed to cut down on unwanted dog barking. It did absolutely nothing to deter a bichon frise 20' away in a neighbor's yard that barked almost nonstop all day. He would go to work in ...

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What I'm saving on restaurant meals and gasoline is probably offset by more rounds of golf and increased electricity use at home.

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KlingKlang wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 28, 2020 3:53 pm
Go to my barber for a shave and a haircut.

Same here.

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Ugh. [Deleted - mod olcomputerguy] The good news is that in about 2 more weeks of the current downward trajectory we have been on, the market will be zero and we will not have to worry about it anymore.

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I already had a company laptop computer and monthly cell phone reimbursement before this whole mess as an office-based worker. Now that my group is mandated to WFH for the next month or two, we aren't receiving any additional "freebies", nor is there anything additional I want or need to do my job. ...

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While I still have serious issues with the illiquidity of EE bonds, I must say that the 3.53% yield is probably quite attractive to a lot of folks right now. To be honest, I'm surprised that there is so little mention of them. 20 year Treasuries are only yielding 1.60% right now. Am I missing somet...

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My personal opinion is that the next "hoarder run" is going to be on dog and cat food, so I've been stocking up on what I will need in that category.

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I've been giving a "thumb up" and a smile.

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Last week I set my new 401k contributions to go into the stable value fund. Just not comfortable immediately lighting the money on fire in this decline as soon as it hits the account. I would need to see some stability in the world before committing to add to equities again. Sure, I'll miss the bott...

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There is a somewhat ignorant guy in this 20s in my office who keeps bantering about how he is happy the market is cratering so he can pay lower prices and time the bottom. He often does this while unknowingly within earshot of colleagues twice his age nearing retirement who have been moaning about t...

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Not someone I usually listen to, but I believe Jim Cramer has said that "it's never a good time to own airline stocks."

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Numerous employers in my area have cash balance pension plans, but I'd be willing to bet that zero private sector employers in my city still have defined benefit pension plans open to new hires. The county and state governments here have defined benefit pensions for new hires, and always seem to be ...

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There are dozens of golf courses of all types and quality, if you play.

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In recent months, there have been young mechanical/electrical engineers I work with who constantly stare at live Tesla intraday stock charts/tickers during meetings on their computers when they should be paying attention and participating in the meetings.

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I check KBB wholesale/trade in value maybe twice per year and use that. Close enough.

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I know this is a 10 year old thread, but just needed to vent on how true it is that VALIC makes this process extremely difficult unlike any other plan provider I've dealt with. A relative is trying to get about $5k in a VALIC 403b plan from a former employer located on the other side of the country ...

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My mom's Cadillac would normally make you hit the disable button again every time you start the car if you don't want auto start/stop on. She paid to get some device rigged up that tricks the car's sensors into thinking the hood is open when it's not, which apparently keeps auto start/stop deactivat...

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For annual budgeting (cashflow) purposes, I would count the $367 payment x 12 months. For net worth purposes, the approximate wholesale value of the car goes on the asset column and the loan balance goes on the liability column. Naturally, both the car's value and the loan balance would be adjusted ...

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I found several hundred dollars from an old house purchase where the settlement company owed me money and made no attempt to locate me. This one happened to me as well. I was apparently owed around $100 from a final water bill escrow on a rental property I sold, and the title company sent the check...

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Recently I attempted to recover funds at the request of my employer during a time when we were slow. We had around 20 such unclaimed accounts in a particular state. I was successfully able to claim 10 of them pretty easily. Another 3 required some effort; in one case I had to locate some old outdate...

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Given the information presented, I would just stay out of it and neither hurt nor help her chances. Maybe if she had been unemployed for awhile, was having trouble getting a new job, I knew I could pull a string that would almost guarantee she got the job, AND it would reduce an alimony obligation I...

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In my megacorp environment, I've never experienced a manager giving holiday gifts to employees on their own dime. One of three things usually happens where I've worked: -Manager tells everyone they can leave early at noon on Christmas eve or NYE and not mark it as PTO. -Manager takes the department ...

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I have (12) rentals (SFR) and do not supply W&D (unless there is one left there by previous tenants) I do not compensate renters who leave W&D behind. I do not support repairs to W&D. This appliance is too often abused by tenants and use is very dependent on tenant's habits. i.e. We do about 3 load...

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If you can't get the dealer to budge on price for the C8, maybe you can get them to include the obligatory pair of jean shorts and white New Balance running shoes for free. Huh? You're not getting a C8 for less than MSRP for the forseeable future unless you have GM pricing and/or some special relat...

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It's nothing personal. The caller probably has a spreadsheet of publicly-available information from your city land records office with hundreds of entries. he does not know anything about you or your house that is not on the land records; he is just going down a list of hundreds of entries and call...

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If you can't get the dealer to budge on price for the C8, maybe you can get them to include the obligatory pair of jean shorts and white New Balance running shoes for free.

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If you go with the GLC300, a lot of dealers sell their service loaners as CPO cars at good discounts vs new MSRP, the cars usually have 5k miles or less and are 2019's. They usually don't have a lot of options on them though. You do get an extra year of unlimited-mileage warranty beyond the 4 yr/50k...

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A major part of my willingness to travel on business these days relates to how strict the company's travel policies are. I did not mind it one bit when I worked for a company that let me make all my own arrangements, pick the days of travel, pick flights based on schedule, fastest route, and not pri...

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I bought a "Verizon Certified Pre-Owned" iPhone directly from them. I'm guessing I could perhaps have gotten it cheaper elsewhere, but the phone was like new (I was expecting some wear and it basically had none), half the price of a new one, and I didn't have to worry about dealing with a shady sell...

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I have no answer or knowledge to contribute, but have always wondered the same thing. I would have to imagine that unless the business has a successful track record, the landlord would require a personal guarantee even if the lease is in the name of a LLC. Then it would probably be a matter of how w...

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I have a decade-old wool winter jacket that I get dry cleaned once per year. That's it anymore. Costs me $8 maybe. My current suit is 5 years old and I think was only ever dry cleaned once, after I wore it in a smoky casino maybe 2 years ago. I also think that's the last time I wore it, it's still h...

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I once tipped an AAA-provided tow truck driver $20 after he pulled my stuck car out of an off-road area that was technically not covered by the AAA plan, since it was not adjacent to or accessible from a public road. It was basically in the middle of a 30 acre muddy private property construction sit...

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