Personal Finance (Not Investing) • Re: Prescription Drug Scams
$55 versus ~$4 sounds like a lot but I don't know if that is a "scam". You are paying for a pharmacist to fill a custom prescription versus an Amazon tech or god-knows who to do a count out. Then...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Zelle vs. Venmo
Which should I use, and why?Statistics: Posted by protagonist — Tue Dec 31, 2024 2:29 pm
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Re: Need some retirement advice, please.
Maybe ask your son to pay you back for some of that tuition?My son doesn't work. The school he talked his mother into letting him attend was The Art Institute in California. As far as I'm concerned,...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Re: To Mortgage or Not To Mortgage
You can get a better return paying more down than you can on the money-market fund. Therefore, you should only keep enough in the money-market fund for your immediate cash needs and emergency fund;...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Re: Prepare for Parent Illness and Death
I’m sorry you have to go through this. Most of us go through this eventually, but I’m sorry it’s now.Anyway…Get a copy of the trust documents. Understand what your rights and responsibilities are as...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Re: RMD breaking a bond
If you decide to cash bonds instead of taking distribution in kind, you might try to estimated how much interest you will lose compared to current interest rates, compared to letting that bond mature,...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Re: for those aiming to avoid IRMAA, how...
If you look at Table 1 near the end of the article entitled "Additions and Subtractions to Federal Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) to Calculate Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI) for Health Programs"...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Re: Is $4M enough?, age:40, valedictorian...
Hi,I have read a story about the young boy who goes to a farm and was assigned a work to do it in a week.Here is the catch: If the boy do it early, boy can take the rest of the week off and also get...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Re: Beneficial Owner Information reporting...
This filing is put on hold pending a Federal court ruling which is being appealed by US Treasury according to the filing site. At this time the alert says companies are not required to file, although...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Re: Fogged up house windows need replacement?
Thanks for all the replies!!!! I don’t think I have any warranty paperwork. They were new to the house when we purchased 15 years ago. Can I just call company and they look up address? Not...
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Personal Investments • You won’t be getting any tax forms (Question)
I logged in to my Vanguard this year and I saw a message saying "You won't be getting any tax forms from Vanguard for 2024". I find it odd because when I went to the "Your year-to-date tax activity"...
View ArticleInvesting - Theory, News & General • Re: International (Non-US) versus US...
Wrong. If you had paid attention you would know I wasn't arguing with anyone merely pointing out an error. Also, Vanguards Performance of 5.2% is inclusive of dividends. Vanguard fund performance...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Re: Morningstar TIAA discussion group?
I have the feeling that M* is trying to kill the forums.If true, that is disappointing. There were a few amazing people (Bob was at the top of that list) who were always willing to assist others in...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Re: Wellington fund
For 10 years prior to Nov I was 100% Wellesley, in Nov I added PRCFX.Prior to that WI-only decade I held WI for about 15 years but never at more than 50% of my portfolio.Statistics: Posted by KEotSK66...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Re: Hawaii Rental Car Rates - Back to Covid-era...
Usual strategy: make a refundable reservation early and rebook whenever the price drops, checking especially regularly in the final few weeks.I assume this is in reference to using Costco Travel? When...
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Personal Finance (Not Investing) • Re: Share your net worth progression
1999 -- ($500)2000 -- $2k (estimate)2001 -- $4k (estimate)2002 -- $7k (+3k)2003 -- $21k (+14k)2004 -- $33k (+12k)2005 -- $29k (-4k)2006 -- $52k (+23k)2007 -- $75k (+23k)2008 -- $93k (+18k)2009 -- $53k...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Re: Fixing Excess HSA contribution
Its your money, not the employers. If you have an HSA for 2025 just undercontribute in 2025 to make up for the overcontribution in 2024 and pay the penalty. Or do the Distribution of Excess HSA...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Re: tsa precheck touchless ID available at United
I was not impressed. It worked, kinda, but I expected more. Despite what I read to look for Touchless TSA PreCheck there was no signage that indicated "touchless", just the old signs "TSA Precheck". I...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Goint to Northern Italy in March - what...
We are visiting Northern Italy in March of this year. We are in our mid 70's and in good shape.We like to walk and use mass transit [not into driving/car rent]Will start in Venice for carnival then on...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Re: Life Expectancy - How did you...
I put 90 for wife and me, knowing full well that the chances of that happening are less than 10%.Statistics: Posted by runner3081 — Thu Jan 02, 2025 2:44 pm
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