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- Sun Feb 27, 2022 6:52 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What watch do you wear on a daily basis, or are you wearing today?
- Replies: 382
- Views: 33441
Re: What watch do you wear on a daily basis, or are you wearing today?
Bought a refurbished Garmin Vivoactive 3 from GPSNation.com about two years ago. I wear it every day and it's still going strong.
- Thu Nov 19, 2020 7:33 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What is the best money you have spent on professional development?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2095
Re: What is the best money you have spent on professional development?
I am about to complete my masters. Can you share more about how you made the degree "work for you"? I hear mixed reviews about how much a masters degree returned on investment. I surely have learned a lot over the course of the program and am a better engineer because of it.
- Wed Nov 18, 2020 11:18 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What is the best money you have spent on professional development?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2095
What is the best money you have spent on professional development?
As an engineering (software) professional in my early 30's, what is the best bang for my buck money I can spend to improve myself? Work more efficiently? I came across this discussion on the Hacker News forum and wanted to get the Boglehead take on this. I don't want this to be limited to software or engineering, I believe that secrets to success can transcend industries and occupations.
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 10:36 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: [What UN-frugal thing do you do? What do you splurge on?]
- Replies: 785
- Views: 84050
Re: [What UN-frugal thing do you do? What do you splurge on?]
Eating out - family of four
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 10:36 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Premium Products That Are Worth It To You
- Replies: 368
- Views: 65420
Re: Premium Products That Are Worth It To You
I for for quality for things I use every day Running Shoes (I buy high-end Asics for the fit) Pretty much any cycling gear Knives (leatherman multi-tools and kitchen knives) tires (always buy the best michelins Costco has available) Vacuum cleaner (Dyson) iPhone 5 Weber Grill (I use it nearly daily here in TX for grilling and coffee roasting) Briefcase and wallet (I'm fussy about these) Most power tools. I usually buy contractor grade Costco sirloin burger patties Sorry to revive this thread from the dead :D Curious to hear your recommendations for a company that makes wallets and uses premium, high quality leather, that would last for decades. :sharebeer Saddleback Leather Yes! I just purchased a front ID wallet recently. I love it!
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 10:34 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: How do YOU make coffee?
- Replies: 342
- Views: 30268
Re: How do YOU make coffee?
Cold brew in a toddy
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 10:31 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Examples of Low Tech Improving Your Life
- Replies: 216
- Views: 23360
Re: Examples of Low Tech Improving Your Life
I spend 90% of my waking time in front of a screen but any time outside with my kids or inside building legos is bliss!
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 10:29 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What do you/did you spend your bonus on?
- Replies: 109
- Views: 10579
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 10:28 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Anybody here go all-Linux for personal computing?
- Replies: 117
- Views: 11729
Re: Anybody here go all-Linux for personal computing?
Moved to pop os from windows recently. Can't imagine going back!
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 10:27 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What video games are you currently playing?
- Replies: 529
- Views: 88220
Re: What video games are you currently playing?
Sports guy - Fifa 21, Madden 21
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 10:27 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Is it really Worth it to brown bag your lunch at work?
- Replies: 328
- Views: 33561
Re: Is it really Worth it to brown bag your lunch at work?
100%. And we cook great meals at home so leftovers are generally delicious.
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 10:24 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Boglehead Beer
- Replies: 1071
- Views: 204127
Re: Re:
:sharebeer My personal top secret two beers: * Yuengling - light, tasty, often the cheapest beer in the store. Not a lot to it, but an unoffensive refreshing summer brew. Go figure. * Killian's Red - Often belittled just for being a Coors product, actually has good flavor, and again -- readily available and cheap. :sharebeer ... 2 great choices at very reasonable prices.. Another favorite at great savings is Rolling Rock... I purchased a 30 pack of canned RR this week at $18.99. Just $.63 / can! Iconic name and taste .. for years brewed locally in glass lined tanks in Latrobe, Pa. This cheap, but tasty offering, allows me to splurge on all of the great fresh brewed craft beers at so many local and distant breweries.. Its’s a great time for...
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 10:23 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What are you doing for haircuts due to coronavirus shutdown?
- Replies: 258
- Views: 27351
Re: What are you doing for haircuts due to coronavirus shutdown?
shaving my head completely every couple weeks
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 10:20 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What frugal thing did you do today?
- Replies: 4535
- Views: 625570
Re: What frugal thing did you do today?
Deciding to be intentional about looking for stuff on Craigslist or offer up before looking on Amazon has saved us money
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 10:15 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Favorite Purchase of 2018?
- Replies: 265
- Views: 28749
Re: Favorite Purchase of 2018?
True boglehead
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 10:14 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Coronavirus (Consumer Issues) How you are preparing?
- Replies: 1800
- Views: 180181
Re: Coronavirus (Consumer Issues) How you are preparing?
I thought absentee and mail in are the same thing. Are they not?
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 10:00 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What Car Maintenance Do You Do?
- Replies: 165
- Views: 11997
Re: What Car Maintenance Do You Do?
replacing cabin filters
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 9:59 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Products that last forever
- Replies: 288
- Views: 29960
Re: Products that last forever
Saddleback Leather goods, cast iron pans
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 9:57 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Is Costco worth the $120 membership?
- Replies: 267
- Views: 25727
Re: Is Costco worth the $120 membership?
totally. we live by the produce and meat aisles. Monthly sales are huge.
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 9:56 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What is the single best piece of exercise equipment you bought for your home?
- Replies: 259
- Views: 23579
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 9:55 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What expenditures improved your happiness/quality of life?
- Replies: 234
- Views: 45539
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 9:53 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: [Books that changed your life]
- Replies: 577
- Views: 73147
Re: Books that changed your life
Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 9:49 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: "Hobby" Money: Planes, cars, boats etc...
- Replies: 114
- Views: 10288
Re: "Hobby" Money: Planes, cars, boats etc...
any favorite bike brands here for someone who doesn't bike at all but would like to start on something cheaper and reliable
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 9:47 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Good Modern Science Fiction
- Replies: 766
- Views: 150960
Re: Good Modern Science Fiction
using libby?
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 9:47 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Trader Joe's Fans - good value?
- Replies: 164
- Views: 30019
Re: Trader Joe's Fans - good value?
I love the chocolate bars
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 9:38 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Gardening 2020
- Replies: 227
- Views: 22363
Re: Gardening 2020
Moving from CO to NC, it might sound like an excuse but I'm excited to be able to grow stuff for once!
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 8:44 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Where do you buy coffee beans?
- Replies: 200
- Views: 22416
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 8:42 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: New smoker recommendation?
- Replies: 103
- Views: 9884
Re: New smoker recommendation?
I have heard great things about the kamado joe and big green egg
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 8:41 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Who is your favorite fiction author and what is your favorite book of theirs?
- Replies: 284
- Views: 30515
Re: Who is your favorite fiction author and what is your favorite book of theirs?
Jeffery Archer. Kane and Abel
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 8:40 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: So what are you cooking
- Replies: 972
- Views: 111048
Re: So what are you cooking
Mushroom tofu stir fry
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 8:16 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Which diet soda pop do you enjoy?
- Replies: 234
- Views: 18592
Re: Which diet soda pop do you enjoy?
I wish pakola was available in diet
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 7:59 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Feminine Beauty Products - best bang for your buck?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 4954
Re: Feminine Beauty Products - best bang for your buck?
whatever is on sale at costco!
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 7:56 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What is your favorite consumer product?
- Replies: 339
- Views: 77675
Re: What is your favorite consumer product?
Orient watches
- Sun Nov 08, 2020 10:52 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Items that are worth the money for the quality
- Replies: 553
- Views: 65367
Re: Items that are worth the money for the quality
Saddleback Leather wallet. I am enamored with this one
https://saddlebackleather.com/leather-wallet-mens-front
https://saddlebackleather.com/leather-wallet-mens-front
- Mon Oct 19, 2020 8:02 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Items that are worth the money for the quality
- Replies: 553
- Views: 65367
Re: Items that are worth the money for the quality
Klipsch speakers. We own and love this bookshelf pair
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FKH3VPV/re ... JFbJT9Z9WX
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FKH3VPV/re ... JFbJT9Z9WX
- Mon Oct 19, 2020 7:59 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Running Linux vs Other OS?
- Replies: 173
- Views: 16344
Re: Running Linux vs Other OS?
I have been hearing great things about Pop OS. My co-workers who use it say that it *just works seemlessly*, which is really my main requirement for an operating system.
https://pop.system76.com/
https://pop.system76.com/
- Tue Aug 18, 2020 12:34 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Whats best website for homeowners insurance
- Replies: 37
- Views: 7448
Re: Whats best website for homeowners insurance
Lemonade (www.lemonade.com) seems to be popular and growing fast. Part of this is due to their ability to quote insurance and, process & pay out claims fast.
- Mon Feb 03, 2020 11:32 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What video games are you currently playing?
- Replies: 529
- Views: 88220
Re: What video games are you currently playing?
FIFA 20, Madden 20, Battlefield V
- Sat Jan 18, 2020 5:33 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What are you listening to now
- Replies: 5832
- Views: 590359
Re: What are you listening to now
Clark Howard's podcast
- Sat Dec 21, 2019 11:41 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: College for average kids
- Replies: 126
- Views: 16866
Re: College for average kids
I was a 2.5-3.0 student through grade school. A stint as a sailor and 6 years after high school, I graduated from a small state school with a 3.4 GPA in Computer Science. Currently, I am half way through a Master's degree from an Ivy League program with a 3.8 GPA and employed in software development. There is hope for us "less smart" ones. I just had to take time away from school and mature. Not as accomplished as you. I was a terrible student, reasonably smart but subject to draft (Vietnam era). Zero interest in college. My dad was a Master Mariner and got a job based in Singapore. Mom and Dad insisted I relocate with them from US to SGP. Almost immediately Dad had me aboard US flagged Merchant tanker ( not his) under contract t...
- Fri Nov 22, 2019 4:13 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Best car/car value ever!
- Replies: 59
- Views: 6369
Re: Best car/car value ever!
I have had to get thousands of dollars worth of work done on my Ford sedan at 100k. Brake pads, front rotors, tires, shocks, struts. Just manufacturer recommended work.
Is this not the case for Toyotas and Honda's?
Is this not the case for Toyotas and Honda's?
- Sat Nov 16, 2019 10:50 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Deal finding websites
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1373
Re: Deal finding websites
Slickdeals, Camelcamelcamel (for Amazon)
- Thu Oct 31, 2019 6:57 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: If I save $65,000 a year for the next 25 years
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5100
Re: If I save $65,000 a year for the next 25 years
Need more details.. expenses, debt, networth, etc...
- Mon Jul 08, 2019 7:16 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: what was your worst major purchase? mine is a 2019 mazda3
- Replies: 182
- Views: 21483
Re: what was your worst major purchase? mine is a 2019 mazda3
This has been a fun thread to read (and I feel really bad for StopToThink). For me, the answer has got to be my first undergraduate degree. I started school in 2001, studying Computer Science. Got partway through my sophomore year and hit a wall - I could not handle the material. Took some time off from school to work and figure out what I wanted to do with my life. Decided to switch from CS to IT. Did that for exactly one semester to know that was really not what I wanted to do. Took more generals before deciding to switch to Business Management. Finally graduated in 2008, after seven years. Got a job making $9.50/hour and never used that degree one little bit. It wasn't even the financial cost of the degree that was the real killer - tha...
- Mon Jun 10, 2019 9:08 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Anyone familiar with driving from Disneyland area to Tucson, Az?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3141
Re: Anyone familiar with driving from Disneyland area to Tucson, Az?
I live in LA. Unless you are adamant about LA, I'd spend the time in San Diego...much more pleasant. The beaches in San Diego and Orange County are much nicer too. I'd suggest San Clemente as the northernmost target. San Diego has the zoo, and a wild animal park that's incredible: See https://www.sdzsafaripark.org/ Also Balboa Park is really neat, and has a neat auto museum (although a 1 yr old and a 3 year old might be bored, they can play outside while your wife lets you do the museum :) ) If you decide not to go into Los Angeles, try to fly into John Wayne Airport in Orange County from STL; its a great airport, Disneyland is in Orange County, and you'll avoid a ton of traffic trying to get there from LAX (although Orange County has traf...
- Mon May 13, 2019 10:45 am
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Does vision insurance cover online eyeglass purchase?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1054
Re: Does vision insurance cover online eyeglass purchase?
I have insurance with Davis vision through my megacorp. They will cover $100 on any eyeglasses pair, online or not. I have been reimbursed successfully when buying from EyeBuyDirect and Warby Parker
- Wed Mar 27, 2019 12:34 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Transferring land from parent to child
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1903
Re: Transferring land from parent to child
Exactly what I was thinking. If it was left in your hands, you should still earn some money after the sale.ohai wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2019 12:00 pmIf you sell it, you'd still get the proceeds after tax, right? Why would you rather give it away?Stormbringer wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2019 6:42 pm One day, unexpectedly, a deed showed up in the mail. My 75 year-old father-in-law gave us some land. We don't really want it, but it's been in the family since the 1800's, and now we're paying $1,000 a year in taxes on it. If we sell, we have to pay capital gains on it, because our tax basis is zero. Argh!
Trying to find some other family member to give it to.
- Tue Mar 19, 2019 3:45 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: College for average kids
- Replies: 126
- Views: 16866
Re: College for average kids
I was a 2.5-3.0 student through grade school. A stint as a sailor and 6 years after high school, I graduated from a small state school with a 3.4 GPA in Computer Science. Currently, I am half way through a Master's degree from an Ivy League program with a 3.8 GPA and employed in software development. There is hope for us "less smart" ones. I just had to take time away from school and mature.
- Thu Feb 21, 2019 9:51 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Where online to see real costs of new cars?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1023
- Mon Jan 14, 2019 12:00 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Fantastic Resort Recommendations???
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5854
Re: Fantastic Resort Recommendations???
We find the AAA Five Diamond Resort list to be very reliable. Both the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs and the Hyatt Ziva in Cancun have been amazing.
Here is a link: https://publicaffairsresources.aaa.biz/ ... Hotels.pdf
Here is a link: https://publicaffairsresources.aaa.biz/ ... Hotels.pdf