Personal Investments • Re: Talk to me about Qualified Charitable...
According to Fidelity & donors, if you make a QCD with them for under $3000/donor, you have to notify them that a donation was made by you to get the letter, as the check doesn’t list your bake...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Re: Who has roadside coverage experience...
We keep AAA — a joint membership for husband & me and another for son and daughter. Ours is just 5 miles towing included. Theirs is the 100 miles towing, which has been used. The “kids” have older...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Re: Die with Zero - opinions?
"there's no way to save enough money for a worst-case health scenario"Of course there is. You just have to want to do it and then go out and do it. If you don't want to, well, okay.Well…no. It would...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Re: Making Windows 11 Look Like Windows 95?
But what would drive a company/ user to go back before the Win 7 User Interface? I could see someone wanting it to look like Windows XP, but before that seems so rudimentary that wanting to go back to...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Re: Can't swim after 4 lessons at Y. Am I a bad...
I have never taught adults, but I taught hundreds of kids when I was a lifeguard. Some of them still had to be coaxed into the pool after the fourth lesson. Some jumped straight in before they had...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Re: Crazy to LEASE a new Tacoma?
It's awesome you use your truck vs treat it like a glorified minivan.Tacomas generally lease well due to high residual values. I'd be careful about damage and mileage limits as notes before.Could you...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Re: US Treasury value lower than 100?
You received the market price at the auction. The yield rose later in the day and the price dropped slightly.If you're buying these and holding them for 4 weeks then your going to get your 100 back at...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Re: Making the Switch. Slowly or all at once?
I have a roth ira I generally lump sum max each year, and then my TSP and my wife’s 401k. But my old 401k which contains maybe 50% of our holdings I cannot add new money to. So the easiest thing in my...
View ArticleNon-US Investing • Re: How to open a foreign brokerage account as a US citizen?
As an American living abroad my tax advisor advised me buying foreign domiciled financial assets could land me with over 100% of the invested amount in penalties. Yes you WILL lose all your money then...
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