Personal Consumer Issues • Re: Ultra widescreen monitor for office use?...
At office I use a 49" curved ultrawide. Forgot the native resolution, probably 5120x2880, but at native resolution w/o scaling things are just a tad too small for me.The 32:9 ratio is weird for a few...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Re: Overwhelming choices for glucose monitor...
OMG, this just so clearly skirts around medical advice and seems to be non actionable for a non diabetic.For diabetics, CGMs are state of the art therapy and have been for many years. If working with...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Re: What Book Are You Currently Reading? Part VI
"The Silk Roads: A New History of the World" by Peter FrankopanFocuses on the major role the Silk Road (which extended from east Asia into east Europe, going back to the time when Western Europe was a...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Re: What do you buy in Asian food stores?
Victoria,Does it really matter on what and how you prepare the food. It is food. and If you dont like the preparation, prep another way the next time. This is true, itstoomuch.The reason for my...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Re: Costco Car Battery Warranty Replacement Question
I just replaced a 32 month old Costco battery last week. I'm not sure when the present policy started but as of now I was told that their batteries have a 36 month warranty prorated from day one. In...
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Personal Finance (Not Investing) • Re: Bank of America promo: extra 2%/2x...
Here's a screen shot from my CCR account - [/quote]Why wouldn't property tax default to the 1% "all other purchases" category?Since property tax usually doesn't qualify for any category on the CCR,...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Re: Pre-built Gaming PC - Current Gen Intel or AMD?
There are other brands other then what you mentioned that are just as good or maybe better. Gaming needs powerful video cards and can have lower end CPUs. Having a next tier down CPU from top of the...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Re: Roth conversion after retirement - Seems common?
I am rolling over all my pretax tax advantaged 401(k)s to a Roth IRA. I am early in my career and just graduated medicine. I should’ve done this before in residency where my income was well but I will...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Re: Is my child living beyond her means?
Yes so you bragged about lower mortgage from 40+years ago. Yes you seem out of touch. Let's compare some things to 1974 which might be when you bought Daughter income 200k avg 2024 income 64k avg 1974...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Chase Travel Portal $100 Reward Clipped
I have a Chase Sapphire Preferred card. I made a $900+ purchase on the Chase Travel Portal on October 5 and was supposed to get a $100 reward for spending over $500 that I clipped. I still haven’t...
View ArticleNon-US Investing • Re: US Nonresident Aliens - Vanguard freezing legacy accounts
The best-guess consensus here seems to be that Vanguard may just keep rolling with the last known withholding tax rate based on the NRA's country of residence at the end of 2025. Status quo on both...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Re: [What TV Show Have You Recently Watched?]
My Tablo captured new episodes of "NOVA" on PBS, and I'm glad to see Nova get back to science instead of other topics.Currently they are presenting a series called "Solar System: <topic>" This...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Amazon Credit Card, which is better?
I'm considering getting an Amazon CC as the 5% cash back would quickly add up since I buy so much from Amazon. I see there are two cards available. Can someone tell me the difference between them? One...
View ArticleInvesting - Theory, News & General • Re: Instead of SWR, why don't we do...
During the BH conference, I learned that endowments are taking a totally different approach to their sustainable withdrawals.Instead of SWR method, which is taking a certain percentage and adding an...
View ArticleNon-US Investing • Re: Figuring out bonds - Europe version
3) given unease with bonds, there might be a case for certificates of deposit if you can get some at good rates in your country, and always staying below the limit guaranteed in your country (for...
View ArticleInvesting - Theory, News & General • Re: My New Retirement Thinking: LMP...
The difference is a function of (1) expected inflation, (2) liquidity (nominals are more liquid which should be reflected in price) and (3) inflation insurance (you should expect to pay something to...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Re: 8 Year Boglehead Portfolio Review
Congrats on a great job with your finances! I’d suggest your AA is too high for your age and desire to retire in 5-6 years.Best,Statistics: Posted by gips — Sun Nov 03, 2024 3:45 am
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Re: I Bond interest exclusion for 529 - considering...
I have 2001 bonds that would push me over the exclusion in 2031.Assuming our income and the exclusion MAGI increase at the same rate of increase, I calculate that I can redeem the bonds in three years...
View ArticleInvesting - Theory, News & General • Re: Treasury Direct e-mail:...
A data point for anybody trying to figure out what's happening at TD...bought gifts on Monday the 28th. Received email on 31st asking us to deliver gifts.Statistics: Posted by feh — Sun Nov 03, 2024...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Re: Has anyone paid off a house then taken out a...
It would be interesting to hear from people that have paid off a mortgage, then reversed course and taken out another mortgage to invest in the market.The numerous strings advocating not paying off a...
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