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I use my Apple Watch for swimming laps as we’ll as for outdoor bicycle rides and ot works quite well for both. It monitors heart rate and provides other related statistics like calories burnt, number of laps, distance, route map for bicycle rides, speed, heart rate recovery trend etc.. I recently s...

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I'm a big fan of the various Google Drive products such as Sheets since they're so seamless from my Chrome browser. But, in the guise of a PSA, there are also free online versions of Excel, Word and other Office products. You need a MS OneDrive account, also free. Its all in the cloud. The programs ...

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Of course I have had my mail held from the post office all my life and it's a normal thing that seems to have always worked, but I have actually never heard of anyone who has ever used this for UPS/Fedex. And it seems like a big deal, because you are asking them to perform a storage function for wh...

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Many stories about people using (XXX)-234-5789, better known as Beachwood 4-5789 by the Marvelettes.

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We've used USPS hold service regularly and find it works with glitches. So much depends upon the individual PO and especially the individual letter carrier. No experience with FedEx even though we have an account with them and get notices when packages are shipped/due. I'm interested in hearing more...

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It's likely someone gave the wrong cell phone number when they ordered at best buy. I wouldn't be too worried about. If you don't shop best buy, feel free to block the number. I also wouldn't be upset at best buy for not being able to remove your phone number. Would you want to be customer to a bus...

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We buy from Costco. Quality was fine, at less than half the price of our local grocery store (Kroger). I never heard of avocado oil before this thread. I bought a bottle at Costco this afternoon after some online research It's a liter bottle of Chosen Foods brand for $9.99 in the warehouse. A super...

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I have no experience with Xfinity Mobile itself. I use Project Fi which uses available wifi; if that's not available, it connects to Sprint, T-Mobile, or U.S. Cellular for service. I've had good experiences with xfinity hotspots. I find them in unexpected places, many in other states. My phone will ...

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For those not familiar, VTMSX is vanguard’s tax managed small cap admiral fund, which tracks the S&P 600 index. I invest in this fund in my taxable account. I was looking at my rebalancing options, and I happened to notice that vanguard does not list a minimum for IRAs for this fund: https://invest...

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You might google it, but the rule of thumb is 80 to 100 gal/day per person, excluding lawn watering, etc. So your 7000 gal/month is on the low side, under the average, at about 60 gpd/person.

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I'm about a quarter way into The Outsider by Stephen King. A horrific murder and conflicting investigation novel. I'm unable to describe it further w/o spoilers. I recommend it as I do most of King's books. I've also started the non-fiction Broken Trust by Samuel P. King and Randall W. Roe. Broken T...

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Here's Vanguard's policy statement.

https://personal.vanguard.com/us/help/S ... ontent.jsp

I'd note that among many other items it requires "Never store your user name, password, or answers to security questions in your browser."

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Several years ago chipmunks ate the wiring in my neighbor's garaged Mercedes. I recall a couple of thousand dollars worth of damage, perhaps over a couple of days. Around the same time our air conditioner stopped cooling. The HVAC tech opened the condenser housing, came to get us to show us the dead...

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Will the battery last? A few years ago I thought the battery life was +/- 5 years and represented a significant replacement cost. Has this changed? Not accurate :thumbsdown Note the 2017 reference below my sentence that you quote. Looks like it's now 8 years or so? Surely doesn't look like the 20 y...

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I drive about 5200 miles per year, generally no more than 20 miles per day, and avoiding highways nearly all the time. For climate change reasons, trying to decide whether to buy a new plug-in, and possibly put some solar panels on my roof to make it a solar car, or go with a hybrid. I like the ide...

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Dish detergent and a microfiber cloth that is intended specifically for use with optical lenses. Avoid using paper towels or dirty cloths that might scratch because of wood or textile fibers or particles. +1 although I just use a soft cloth. We like Dawn but Palmolive's also good. This works so muc...

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Bogleheads - Vanguard publishes a lot of investment research such that it is hard to keep up with it all. Do you read all the research reports that they publish? In addition, do you save them electronically for future reference? Would you suggest how to find the reports? I searched their site for r...

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Starting The President is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson. I'm just finishing it. It's a very good read. Scary if you dwell upon the premise behind the action. There are several tedious multi-paragraph expositions of political machinations that, IMO, add nothing to the story, but are ea...

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... Beyond annual premiums on a 2nd to die policy owned by the trust, there have been no distributions until this year. That will probably change as the beneficiary's family situation changes. ... Do you need an insurance trust? Are you rich enough to pay estate taxes but poor enough to need life i...

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I am about to do a mega backdoor roth rollover for the first time, and it looks like to deposit the checks I receive from my 401k admin in my Schwab accounts, I have to go to the local branch or mail them in: the mobile check deposit in the Schwab app seems to want to treat it as a contribution, wh...

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Thank you for your comments and suggestions. I'll take a look at your article. The trust investments are currently low turn-over index funds as you suggest to minimize capital gains distributions. As grantors we are paying the taxes on the trust income and gains. While perhaps it is hard to write a ...

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Samsung Tab A 8in. Indestructible, easy to use and it is wife approved (she can figure it out)! https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Galaxy-Tablet-Titanium-SM-T350NZAAXAR/dp/B00V49LL90/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1529804083&sr=8-6&keywords=samsung+tablet The amazon fires are fine but bogged down with bloatwar...

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Can you recommend a book or similar that provides an overview of trusts? We’ve had a irrevocable trust for several years. I’m looking for general guidance on how to think about trust investments, how to manage the trust to minimize capital gains when making distributions, how much to keep in cash-li...

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stlutz wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 23, 2018 8:30 am
If you owned individual stocks, you would get things that show up here periodically.

That makes sense. I have no individual stocks. Anyone with individual stock holdings seeing items?

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I looked at my brokerage accounts on the Balances and Holdings page, and noticed a tab for Corporate Actions. Is this new? (on my IRA account part of the title is obscured and only shows "Corp"). I clicked and was presented with a Voluntary Corporate Actions page with more tabs. I checked each and m...

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As we all know, investing in Vanguard’s Primecap fund is closed to new investors except for those in the Flagship category. While I am a strong believer in indexing, I occasionally like to take “hobby” positions in other funds. Has anyone at the Flagship level ever actually tried to buy these funds...

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We're doing an interstate move in a few months time. Does it make a difference whether you hire a mover from the state you're leaving or from the state you're moving to? We're leaving a downtown city apartment to move to a suburban townhouse. Perhaps its better to have a mover familiar with a city p...

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It sounds like you have many pieces. I would recommend a jeweler, in fact a few and compare offers. A few years ago I sold many coins. Most worth only the silver content. I would recommend you only have one piece at a time on the velvet pad or agree on a count, and don't let things out of your sight...

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I think I'm pretty organized. I use several storage products (OneDrive, Drive, Keep, Pocket and some others). I especially like how easy it is to find something given the search abilities of each. But what if you haven't stored or filed an item? I used Google Desktop search in the past. It could fin...

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I have this Rosle balloon whisk and recommend it. It is amazingly more effective than the old one it replaced. Pricey, but worth it to me. I also have a couple of flat whisks. They're very effective at getting in the corners of saucepans when there isn't a lot of liquid volume. One is like this Ros...

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Thanks dratkinson. After your post I tried Oxi Clean multi surface formula overnight on a glass wine carafe with a red tinge from many years of use. We'd tried a bottle brush and Dawn, and then bleach in water. Online they recommend ice cubes in water and swirling. All were an improvement but still ...

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Killing Eve on BBC America. Stars Sandra Oh from Gray's Anatomy as a Brit spy. It is based on the Villanelle novels by Luke Jennings. Villanelle (pun?) is played by Jodie Comer. Season 1 just ended. Season 2 has been ordered. Lots of violence, bad language, and surprises. I'm sticking it out with Se...

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If the Wellness visits do not cover blood work, BP, and PSA what do they cover? Although I can't find it now I thought I read in Medicare and You booklet that blood work was covered every five years. How does that work for people with high cholesterol and known heart disease? Again, it must be in t...

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We make regular use (1-2X/month) of car rentals, and are in a rural area. It is a 20-minute drive to the airport, a bit less to Enterprise. The tipping factor is that Enterprise will pick my wife up and bring her home saving me the drive. If a search on Costco yields a much lower price at the airpo...

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I go to a urologist once a year. He does both tests. My PCP does PSA as part of my annual lab work and exam. I then go to a urologist once a year who reviews the PSA result and the general labs and does a DRE and other items such as checking for hernia. Both doctors participate with Medicare which ...

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I Heard a Romantic Story by Lee Child. It's a short story, actually described by the editor as "One paragraph, one story, one voice by Lee Child. Enough said." Luckily I borrowed it as an ebook from the library. No Jack Reacher, $1.99 if you pay for it, seven and a half pages (one paragraph) of a st...

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How does Avis stay in business or am I missing something? Looking to do a 2 week car rental and as an example: Enterprise is $650 and Avis is $1650. Both are of equal selections AFAIK. On that note, which car rental company do you prefer? I've used Enterprise a few times, overall pretty good minus ...

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I too have a nexus 9 and have similar issues with freezing, etc. However before switching from android, consider this Samsung tablet at Costco. https://www.costco.com/Samsung-Galaxy-Tab-A-Wi-Fi-Tablet---Octa-Core---Android-Marshmallow---Black---Includes-32GB-MicroSD-Card.product.100303758.html?langI...

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Thoughts on this? https://m.costco.com/.product.100321190.html?EMID=B2C_2018_0523_MVM First, you realize this is a Chromebook not a Windows laptop as noted in the thread title? It will not run Windows or Windows programs except the in-the-cloud versions of Excel, Word, etc. I still use those, but a...

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Short question: Anyway to view running transactional balances on a Vanguard fun? The Longer version, if interested: Yesterday, maybe 5 AM, I signed onto my Vanguard summary page. At the bottom it showed a couple of transactions that had posted across several accounts. I next checked the account summ...

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I have only been to Hawaii once, and then only to Kauai, which I loved. It was exactly what I wanted, very relaxing and laid back. Flew nonstop from LA to Lihue. But 3-4 nights would not have been enough. Unless I lived on the West Coast and could get a nonstop flight, I wouldn’t do it for such a s...

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I guess this is another tipping thread. I've read most of them here, but wish to focus somewhat more on bottles of wine in restaurants. At any restaurant that has a wine list, but its all done by the waiter, I generally tip 10% of the wine list bottle price at most, offset by 20% on the food portion...

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We use Costco Travel and take whichever company is least expensive at the time. They book Avis, Budget, Alamo and Enterprise. For our locations they're all okay with a slight edge to Enterprise. Even on Costco the price can vary by several or many hundred dollars for a month's rental.

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My order of preference: Brooks Brothers from the store. One size arm lengths are available. Brooks Brothers from their outlets. The sizing is different as well as the quality. One size arm lengths are not available last time I bought. But lower cost than the store. Costco Kirkland brand at about $18...

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John McCain and Mark Salter: The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations

https://www.amazon.com/Restless-Wave-Ca ... tless+Wave

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I doubt I could find my card in 24 hours. I’ve gotten by on current passport and Driver License for a long time. You should look for it and get a replacement if you cannot find it. When my state implemented the enhanced ID for a drivers license one of the requirements for the first time you got it ...

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I share the amusement about the concern so many have about the gift tax. I’m sure it stems from the days when the annual exclusion was $3,000 and the lifetime exemption was $60,000. Many more people were subject to the estate and gift tax. My father died in 1976 with an estate of about $150,000 lef...

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BTW even if you give more than 15k to an individual, you don’t pay gift tax. This amount over 15K reduces your estate amount which can be passed estate tax free to heirs. Current limit of estate is 11 million per person. For a couple this limit is 22 million. So most folks can give any amount to an...

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I have Amazon Student Prime (see, continuing education is worth it!) and mainly what I do is take their $1 digital credit offer each time to not ship 2nd day. I get more than $49/year in credits from that alone. I checked Amazon and while there's a signup for Student Prime I can't find an explanati...

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Friday I was cutting the lawn and quite a few bees on the side of my house. When I was in the house later, I saw a bee in my closet. This is the closet that I keep my dress clothing. I shut the door thinking the bee will die by Monday morning when I need to go get my dress clothing. Will a bee die ...

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