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Yes, if my team was in it. The NFL game day experience is like nothing else. Seeing my team play in the Super Bowl would be incredible. I have been an NFL season ticket holder for over 30 years (3 tickets). It is very nice and fun to go to them with my wife and son, some times tailgating when not t...

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I just looked at this sad news. What a wonderful citizen of the world.
He will be remembered with affection.

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When I funded my revocable trust in 2005, my lawyer did not recommend titling our autos in the trust. I looked on line at Legalees https://legalees.com/cars-into-living-revocable-trust/ It is stated there Cars and other vehicles (motorhomes, boats, motorcycles, etc.) each have a title and require yo...

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Just to let you know what I have done for the last 10 years of my 20 year retirement when taking income from Wellesley Admiral in my TIRA. I must take out from my TIRA my required minimum distribution. I do not want to sell the Wellesley when the stock market is down like in 2008-09, but when I must...

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We will start our 33rd year being an Indy Colts season ticket holder. Seems like it was just yesterday that the Colts left Baltimore in the middle of the night in their moving van.... I know it was tough and hurt Baltimore. I was employed then as a plant manager. I contacted a supplier in Baltimore...

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bengal22 wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 07, 2019 10:14 am

Great post. Good year to be a Colt fan. And I know Luck will be with you.

Thanks. The Colts are a surprise this year....big surprise. Luck is with us.

Sheepdog

the wildcards in retirement for most people will be medical and dental expenses. I am concerned with and confused about medical expenses. Many expect medical/health-related expenses to go down substantially after becoming eligible for medicare. However, a recent post by Sheepdog tells a different s...

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In October 2019 I will begin my 21st year retired. I will become 86 years of age before that. My wife and I will have our 59th wedding anniversary in December. We will start our 33rd year being an Indy Colts season ticket holder. We will eat out at least once a week in a good restaurant. We will at...

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I have preferred credit cards for decades. I don't have to go to the bank to get cash. A roll of dough could invite a knock on the head like which happened to my mother. In 2018 I spent or donated only $900 in cash. (Yeah, I have records for everything.) And, since reward cards came into existence I...

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Cycle wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 04, 2019 5:26 pm

Sheepdog wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 04, 2019 1:08 pm
3. Transportation (Insurance, registration, fuel, maintenance) $2,141
Do you not include vehicle depreciation?

No, it doesn't. I can't SPEND depreciation. The question is not about present value, It is about spending. My house may be of higher value, for example. It may be lower.

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1. Housing (Rent/Mortgage, Utilities, Improvement, Maintenance) $9,407 2. Food & Drink (Restaurants, Groceries, Cookware) $7,239 3. Transportation (Insurance, registration, fuel, maintenance) $2,141 4. Entertainment (Music, Concerts, Movies, Games, Events, Hobbies) $5,574 5. Retirement Savings (I li...

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In October 2019 I will begin my 21st year retired. I will become 86 years of age before that. My wife and I will have our 59th wedding anniversary in December. We will start our 33rd year being an Indy Colts season ticket holder. We will eat out at least once a week in a good restaurant. We will att...

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25% stock, down -0.39%.
My last down year was the infamous 2008, but I have 18% more in savings today than at the end of 2008 even with only 23-25% stocks and living off of that plus SS in those 10 years. I couldn't want more success than that.
Have a good 2019.

Sheepdog

May you all have a very happy and prosperous 2019. I am planning for it to be so. Tonight, I will be going with my wife to a nice dinner, not only to celebrate the new year, but more so to celebrate our 58th Anniversary. (How did she stand me that long?) Do you have plans? HAPPY NEW YEAR Jim

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Now the S&P is 2493. I guessed 2479.44. Come on, S&P, can you drop a little?

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I went to the University of Florida from 1956 to 1960 (yeah,I know that is ancient) at a total cost of about $6500 for those 4 years!! (I did have a free room in the last 2 years as I was a dorm counselor which helped to supply dating money. :D ). Note that tuition was free to Florida residents and ...

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With 25% stocks, my savings investment performance in 2018 is down -1.18% to date. However, because of much increased medical and dental expenses, my investment savings total (not my total net worth) is down -4.70%

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I take out as needed thru out the year with a maximum goal. Some years I may take out more than that goal (usually for some large purchases or expenses) but always make that up in later years. Some years I take out less than that goal. VPW. you know.

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Being 85 time is not on my side....oh, maybe it is, but I am cashing mine in and placing the proceeds into a SPIA for longer gain time and could help my spouse more.

Sheepdog

I Bonds purchased in 2000 and 2001... 5.8% average return in 2018. (6.1% 2018 YTD return for the June-July 2000 purchases)
1.6% average return of VMMXX Prime Money Mkt.

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Oh, dear Taylor, thank you for sacrificing to help this country, this world, me, and humanity as a whole. While you were at Bastogne, I was 11 years old. While you were fighting, I and my family were glued to our radio to hear of the war and where our country's fighting boys were sacrificing themsel...

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No new money added to savings...no new money coming in except SS......retired 20 years. For 2018 with 23 to 25% stocks added to I Bonds, CDs, and money market, my total return in 2018 is -0.85%. I live off of these savings and SS. After taking out a years worth of spending deductions, which has aver...

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I guess I can't see how anyone's portfolio is "tanking." Total stock market is down -3.76% YTD, and up 5.6% for past 12 months. Total International is down 14.20 YTD, but it's a smaller allocation than U.S. TSM in most portfolios. I'm retired with an AA of ~50/50, which means there is really nothin...

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You can read this very long thread of mine starting in October 2008 thru 2009 and updated several times since then. It is titled: "I can't believe I am thinking this (Panic and Survival 2008-2009)" https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25126 It starts out with this paragraph, "I have been...

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Do you have a pension? What is your plan for withdrawal? How much? When?

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Some hate rap and rock and roll, but others, instead, love classical music, opera and dance. The latter is me. Some want one domestic partner for life, while others want forever a variety. The former is me. Some love to do gardening and landscaping themselves and never hire anyone, while others hate...

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At age 85, living off of savings and SS, I have only 24% stock, That's all I need or want and has been for a dozen years. I am very happy as my net worth is down only 0.3% this year, so basically even and that could very well be erased by 12/31. After all is said and done my goal has been not to run...

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In 20 years in retirement, my "big expenses" not budgeted every year are (some have been mentioned by you and others, but here goes): Automobiles (have 2 and replace each about every 8 years); house maintenance as the house ages (mine is 46 years old) such as roof, driveway replacement, A/C, furnace...

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They can turn up in strange places. This fall when I started my gas furnace, it would not light. The gas furnace is less than a year old, so I called the company who sold and installed it thinking that any problem would be covered by my warranty. The repairman came and spent about an hour. He was lo...

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May you have peace in your life, love to love, food on the table, warmth in your home, good health for you and your loved ones. HAPPY THANKSGIVING.

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We spend years saving and investing. This is counter to the thought of withdrawing a % from your portfolio when one retires. For those that have been retired, was it difficult mentally to start withdrawing from your portfolio ? How did you overcome it ? For me, it was not difficult. That was why we...

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20 years retired lliving off of investments and SS. Yes is my answer, but my nominal balance is the same.

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sailaway wrote: ↑
Thu Nov 15, 2018 11:31 am
Does she have any ideas of what to do with it?

Does she have a favorite charity?

Do the great grand kids have education accounts?

Good reply. There are many choices in this. Ask her.

By the way, has she set up beneficiaries for those IRAs.?

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dh, for me the thread that really brought it all home was Sheepdog's https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25126l Thank you Sheepdog. Bear And, thank you. That panic thread, now titled I can't believe I am thinking this [Panic and Survival 2008-09] brought out my soul (my in-retirement i...

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Yeah Happy Birthday! Just curious as I have never asked before as I don't talk about my Marine experience. But my recent visit to Vietnam was healing. Anybody served in the 3rd Amtrac Battalion 1st Marine Division at Marble Mountains during the 1968 Tet offensive? I visited the Marble Mountains, wh...

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9/10/18 Another Marine Birthday #243. Happy Birthday to all Gyrenes.
Sgt Sheepdog 1952-56

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For a cheap, easy to use, easy to read and reliable device for vehicle use, I would go with a Garmin stand-alone unit. It is a one-purpose device, but for this scenario, I think it fills the bill. I purchased a Garmin 51LM last August from Best Buy at a cost of about $120. Good for this senior. (As...

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PenFed is offering new saving certificate rates:
2.71% 1 year
3.3% 5 year
plus others

See https://www.penfed.org/accounts/certifi ... _-11302018

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Sheepdog, I know that you know better, but for any newbies, it should be stated that you can't "will" anyone parts or all of IRAs. The beneficiary statements on the IRAs override anything in a will. Good point. Yes, of course I understand that. "Willing" is just a term to meaning who gets what.

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rgs92 wrote: ↑
Tue Nov 06, 2018 5:33 pm
Don' t forget to leave something to your pets. They can't earn their own way after you're gone.

Good. Actually our pets are in our will and who will take care of them.

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Assuming we haven't needed to spend it, especially for health and long term care, we have willed our 2 sons half each of our Roth IRAs (tax free for them) and half each of our I Bonds (about $200K at present). We have willed our traditional IRAs and our house to charities. Anything else of value wil...

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mindboggling wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 04, 2018 7:03 am
7am EST Sunday. Site appears to be up and running. Upstate NY location for me.

ditto here. Nothing readily visible showing changes except that light shows at this time with DST gone.

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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology is an absolutely fantastic school. The biggest downsides are expenses and a heavy workload, but you'll get a best-in-class education there. Oh, also, it's an engineering-only school and has the gender ratio you'd expect (roughly 3 men for every woman), so if you'...

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I am attempting to download the Dec 2018-May 2019 Savings 'Bond Value Files. All I get is numbers gibberish. The earlier one in May worked fine. Is anyone successfully downloading it? The IRS discontinued support for the Savings Bond Wizard on 6/1/18. The 5/1/18 update of the data files was the las...

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I am attempting to download the Dec 2018-May 2019 Savings 'Bond Value Files. All I get is numbers gibberish. The earlier one in May worked fine. Is anyone successfully downloading it? The Savings Bond Value Files are "numbers gibberish" except to software that understands the file format. Are you u...

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HueyLD wrote: ↑
Thu Nov 01, 2018 12:12 pm
No. Since I no longer own any paper bonds, it is easier for me to just log in and get the values.

Maybe someone else will see this to advise. UPDATE NOVEMBER 2018 PROBLEM

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HueyLD wrote: ↑
Thu Nov 01, 2018 12:01 pm
Are you using Windows 10?

No...Windows 7 as I used earlier. Have you tried downloading the new files ?

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I am attempting to download the Dec 2018-May 2019 Savings 'Bond Value Files. All I get is numbers gibberish. The earlier one in May worked fine. Is anyone successfully downloading it?

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My wife has these high price monthly prescription: Tradjenta $1145.49 (her out of pocket for that is $226. The insurance company covers the rest. However after the doughnut hole, that is now and until the end of the year costs her now only $20.02 out of pocket until Jan 1 when it will go back up.) T...

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