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Linginvest,

I've never taken the time to explore the VPW method before, thinking it was probably too complicated. Thank you for your detailed explanation. It is now something I will look further into.

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You can get 2% back on several cards but the $100 bonus after spending only $500 sounds like a great deal to me as long as there is no annual fee.

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I buy nice stuff when I think I'll enjoy using it. I retired in 2012 and buy my daily use/fishing/yardwork pants at Tractor Supply. They're light canvas and when they're on sale they're marked down from $14.99 to $11.99. I'm cheap at heart. Blue Mountain! I've got a closet full of more expensive pa...

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Watch out if you share cards. It's been over 24 months since my wife had a Chase card so we re-applied. She has great credit and has not opened a card for years yet she was denied. It took some effort but we finally got a customer service person on the phone. She said my wife was denied because she ...

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I think I was awakened to the possibility of retiring well, even with a modest income, by a book I read back in the 80's called "The Wealthy Barber" The one key thing that I remember was "pay yourself first and then live off the rest" . Basically invest the first 10-15% of your income for retirement...

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About a month ago I was feeling that the market was getting a little "frothy". Things were so good that I was nervous and thinking about taking some chips off the table in my AA of 60:40. I'm close to 60 years old so I was seriously considering a change to 50:50. Not too drastic but it would help me...

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I still do the early morning BF thing but only to Home Depot and maybe one other store. For the past several years one of Home Depot's best BF deals has been on poinsettias. They're only $1 each, with a limit of 6 to 12 depending. I always buy the max and then place them on the front porches of loca...

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Of things to worry about this would be way down on my list. The car is in your town, the missing key is in another. What are the odds of (A) someone finding the key. (B) That person finding the key being a criminal and (C) The criminal somehow having the thought of and the ability to, track this sin...

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If your class of car is not available, you don't always get an upgrade. We've recently returned from Italy. I had reserved a midsized car from Hertz in advance. The pickup location was not at an airport but in downtown Trieste. After we found the rental location (hidden in an industrial parking area...

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FYI, I think the decision has been made since the original post is years old.

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I would have lost that bet. It was in April of 1997. There I was, only 37 years old. Standing in the lot at CARMAX looking at buying something needed. Needed but definitely not wanted. Not a vehicle that screams down the highway but one that clogs the parking lot of local farmers markets. Not a vehi...

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I can't give you specific advice but remember the saying "Perfect is the enemy of good". You generally do more damage trying to chase the perfect porfolio that include the current "Perfect funds" than if you just choose a classic three fund portfolio with an asset allowcation that works for you and ...

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You might want to leave it alone for awhile and let the mushrooms die back naturally. That way the plant believes it has "done it's job" in the reproduction cycle and therefore will not be as likly to try to regrow the above ground mushrooms any time soon.

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The mushrooms we see above ground are just the flower heads of the plant that lives underground. Like others have said, you most likely have a dead tree or stump buried in that area. Once it's depleted, you probably will never see the mushrooms in that spot again.

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I have all my assets listed in my Vanguard account. You can add "outside" investments that are not under the Vanguard umbrella. If it's trackable by a market symbol (stock ticker or fund abbriviation) it updates automatically. What it won't do is log into other financial institutions (banks, Schwab,...

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This Time It's Different: Often said as a warning with a wink and a nod but sometimes opined by someone who truly believes that history will change it's mind and not repeat itself. According to Sir John Templeton, they are the four most expensive words in the English lauguage asnvestors tend to make...

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HueyLD wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 27, 2018 5:41 pm
Does one have to be at least 65 to get the insurance to pay for this vaccine?

Not always. I'm 57 and my wife is 53. Blue Cross/Blue Shield covered ours at 100% as it is preventative.

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We wanted to get the 1st Shingrix vaccination but like others, we had a hard time finding it locally. After several days of searching I got the idea to check outside of our area. I called an in-store pharmacy (Publix) in a small college town 30 minutes away. They had plenty of it and told me to come...

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It's very possible. My wife is a retired school teacher and I'm retired from a small business I owned as a Sub S corp. Her starting salary was under 25K and after 30 years, she never made over 65K. My business averaged me about the same as some years were great and others not. We retired in our 50's...

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After decades of multiple investing errors, I find the market as a whole exciting enough for me. However there is a school of thought that, if you crave excitement, then you should set aside not more than 5% of your liquid investments to "play" with. Put it in a totally different brokerage account a...

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Not getting a lot of love here but I also recommend a basic Chromebook. I bought one at the last minute two years ago for a trip to Europe. Didn't know if I would like it or not. Found out I loved it. Light enough to travel with, perfect for web surfing and cheap enough to not worry about. Now, when...

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Yes, having the heat strips on all the time could definitely increase her electric bill wildly. A heat pump tranfers heat efficiently but the heat strips create heat so they use much, much more energy. They are there and should only come on when the heat pump cannot supply enough heat or has failed,...

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We've been to Italy several times and are going back in Sept. We like Venice and Rome but, due to the crowds, I have no plans on staying in Florence again. For your Tuscany experience I would recommend staying in one of the Agriturismos. "Cretaiole" is our favorite but they require a week's stay. Do...

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Most of the time the credit card company will tell you the single credit reporting agency you are required to unfreeze. Last month I applied for a new CapitolOne card. They required that I unfreeze all three. I argued with them about having to go to all the trouble, as I have my credit score is arou...

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Get out to travel as early in the day as possible and be prepared for overwhelming hordes of tourists in and around both Rome and Cinque Terre. This. We loved sleepy Cinque Terre on our honeymoon in 1990. We liked it in 1994 when we went back. In 2016 we returned again as part of our first major tr...

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I've gotten the the alert also. Seems the new company wants carte blanch to use information in our email,etc., and an agreement not to sue them.

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Since you found it, I have no doubt that it exists but I have never seen or heard of this membership benefit before.

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Over the course of time, I did notice that it was getting harder and harder to stop but, it being a lightly and seldom used vechicle, I ignored it. ...I was shocked to see that the old brake fluid was the color of Coca-Cola . One hour and a large bottle of new fluid. Problem solved. Could you see t...

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Yes, old fluid can make your brakes fail to operate correctly. Voice of experience here. I'm slightly ashamed to admit this but I had a minivan for over 10 years and that I never changed the brake fluid. I do most of our car maintenance but I honestly had never heard of needing to replace brake fuil...

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If you are only using it occasionally to blow off leaves or inflate things then almost any compressor will work OK. I would second the recommendation for a simple pancake compressor. I had one made my Porter-Cable and it served me well for years. You can still buy them or simular models at Home Depo...

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A Sawstop table saw. I have twenty digits and I'm very attached to them. I'm retired, I've been around and seen a lot of stuff go down, and that's what the money's for. I agree. Buying one next week to get the free mobile base. I've still got all my digits but I'm buying it as (I think) my last tab...

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Today the birds are singing, the water is clear and the sky is blue. Lakehouse for sure. Retired here three years ago. Sunk another 100K into it since then and don't regret a single penny.

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I agree. My wife tried to get the one time $100 per year just few weeks later. It was no longer being offered, but they did offer the $10 per month option. It also required the $40 annual service fee, so she passed. That $40 annual service fee seems a little sneaky to me also. Been using Planet Fitn...

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Thank you LadyGeek. Good hints to know.

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Thank you for the responses. I was thinking that I'd seen my posts correctly placed into the thread but fail to be there later. As most of my web viewing is done in the evening, it is possible that I'm missing any 2nd Submit screen. If this has happened to you, then you know the mild frustration of ...

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I'm writing to voice my concern that I'm noticing with some regularity that my responses in posts/topics are disappearing. I always try to be brief, courteous and remain of topic so it is with some confusion to find my posts are possibly being screened and removed. If I am being censored, would some...

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Been using Planet Fitness for several months now. Got the cheapest possible. $10/month with one club, no contract + small annual fee. Close to the house. Planet fitness here also. Got in on a end of the year sale. $100 for 12 months. One location only but that's OK with me since I don't work out wh...

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Without seeing it, it sounds like a footing problem. Should be relatively easy to get someone to jack up the deck and fix the footings. It's going to have to be corrected at some point and I would think this would be much cheaper than building a whole new deck.

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Hanes from Walmart...a BIG no on comfort. I bought about 8 pair around 18 months ago. They were a size larger than I normally wear, hoping for comfort, but the elastic waistband was still way, way too tight. I mean, if I wore them for over 4 hours, I could read "HANES"-----HANES------HANES.... impri...

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My hands down favorite sipping rum that you can buy in the states is Zaya. It runs about $30-$40 a bottle. Everyone has their own idea of reasonably priced so I'll also add Pyrat rum. It's a smooth rum with a nice nose. Less than $25 a bottle. I sampled some Flor de Caña dark rum (not sure of the ag...

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Our LSC was a lake lot. Purchased about 13 years ago. We looked for a good deal on a great lot for about a year and finally found it. Our plan was to sit on it and wait till we retired to build. That lasted two months. We convinced ourselves to go ahead a build a weekend place and enjoy it now, and ...

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Mine were getting close and I was about to rebalance but the market did it for me.

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In the past few decades I've had accounts with Schwab, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price and Vanguard. All have been OK but over the years we've consolidated down. Most of our assets are now with Vanguard as they were the clear winner about 12 years ago when we made some major changes. I thought they were gre...

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We binge watched "The Crown" and loved it. Wish there were more. We trying watching Ozarks (actually filmed just north of Atlanta) but found we just didn't care for any of the characters.

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At 48, I was still in the the dark about asset allocation. I was all in stocks.
"Bonds, who uses bonds?"

The US bear market of 2007–2009 taught me a lesson. Now I'm older and a tad bit wiser.(I hope)

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If it's only a couple of prints, I recommend having them professionally scanned, or find a friend with a good flat bed scanner. Most of the decent to good scanners have adjustment software built in that will allow you to make corrections to set levels and bring back some of the details. When all els...

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sambb wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 23, 2017 8:20 am
im considering taking some profits off the table and rebalancing to a lower stock allocation by ~5%-10%

Since we have reached and exceeded or number, I am considering doing the same.

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NYCguy wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 23, 2017 5:11 pm
Your spouse.

This is the first thing I thought when I read the subject line.

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For vodka, "Grey Goose" is a known quality brand but I would recommend "Tito's" as it costs less, rates better in taste tests, is widely available, has a craft liquor vibe and is made in/near Austin TX. With rum, most people will be enjoying this spirt in some sort of mixed drink. I would recommend ...

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Over my investing lifetime, I can expect that sometimes the market will be going up and sometimes it will be going down. Sometimes it will do this sharply over days or weeks, sometimes it will happen gradually over months or years. Sometimes it will be bonds doing much better, sometimes domestic eq...

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