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- Wed Feb 14, 2024 1:17 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Best dumb thermostat?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2969
Re: Best dumb thermostat?
Home Depot has a $20 Honeywell that is simple, straightforward, accurate, quiet and made for DIYers.
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 6:58 am
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: What is your favorite bond fund for the 3 fund portfolio and why?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2594
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 3:41 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Tax Preparer bailed, which tax software to use?
- Replies: 76
- Views: 6501
Re: Tax Preparer bailed, which tax software to use?
Another endorsement for Free Tax USA: clarity of directions, ease of use and presentation of subjects on the org chart to prod one's thinking (did I fill out all the income sources, etc.).
- Wed Jan 24, 2024 5:16 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: VUSXX = 80.6% U.S. Treasury for 2023
- Replies: 67
- Views: 9751
Re: VUSXX = 80.6% U.S. Treasury for 2023
Heading is misleading: it's 80.06%
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 8:12 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: preferred tax preparation software? [for tax year 2023]
- Replies: 56
- Views: 7804
Re: preferred tax preparation software?
I've used free tax usa on chrome for three years without problems. Program seems more logical than others in requesting data.
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 10:39 am
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: 100K milestone, consolidating to 3-fund, general plan checkup
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1622
Re: 100K milestone, consolidating to 3-fund, general plan checkup
You have an excellent plan and perspective. Continue the march!
- Mon Sep 25, 2023 2:40 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: My Elderly Parents Can't Resist Answering the Phone
- Replies: 127
- Views: 38955
Re: My Elderly Parents Can't Resist Answering the Phone
The AT@T cordless phones effectively stop scam calls while allowing friends and desired services to go thru.
- Sat Nov 19, 2022 11:46 am
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: What have your (long term) investment returns been?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 4428
Re: What have your (long term) investment returns been?
Vanguard's 10 year performance chart has me at 7.7% presently. At the start of the year it was 10.0%.
- Thu Jul 07, 2022 5:57 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Need some Help Deciding about Employment
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3185
Re: Need some Help Deciding about Employment
You clearly are capable of abstract thought in your presentation of the variables. Would you be able to put up with a bad supervisor while in thrall to the system for a significant period of time on the job??
I suggest that you should seek the most flexibility in the choices you have so as to not be trapped by the golden handcuffs of good pension, etc.
I suggest that you should seek the most flexibility in the choices you have so as to not be trapped by the golden handcuffs of good pension, etc.
- Thu Jan 27, 2022 2:48 am
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: Moving to VTI from BND in tIRA
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1680
Re: Moving to VTI from BND in tIRA
Thanks for the comments to my pandemic-produced waiver of my usual "I'll just take the annoying frustration of no good choices".
Stay the course wins again.
Stay the course wins again.
- Wed Jan 26, 2022 8:19 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: Moving to VTI from BND in tIRA
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1680
Re: Moving to VTI from BND in tIRA
Should have typed 65 and 35 for VTI and VXUS!
- Wed Jan 26, 2022 6:53 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: Moving to VTI from BND in tIRA
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1680
Re: Moving to VTI from BND in tIRA
Because the erosion of BND seems steady and the Fed promises more erosion to come.
- Wed Jan 26, 2022 5:35 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: Moving to VTI from BND in tIRA
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1680
Moving to VTI from BND in tIRA
I am single, have 5M in assets, pension pays living expenses, 75/25 AA. All tIRA in BND around 900K. Why shouldn't I convert tIRA to 65% VTI, 25% WXUS??
- Fri Jan 14, 2022 8:10 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Need recommendation on Landline phones
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1740
Re: Need recommendation on Landline phones
The at&t from amazon (above) works great!!
- Wed Jan 05, 2022 6:51 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Help! I'm considering buying a timeshare
- Replies: 188
- Views: 18287
Re: Help! I'm considering buying a timeshare
Do you really want it or do you think its a good deal??
- Wed Jan 05, 2022 6:24 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Will/Trust
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2683
Re: Will/Trust
10 years ago we had a living trust, POA, health care directive done for $700 dollars in Northern Virginia.
Is inflation that bad?
Is inflation that bad?
- Mon Dec 06, 2021 10:15 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: New to Mystery Reading: Which Authors?
- Replies: 98
- Views: 8504
Re: New to Mystery Reading: Which Authors?
Research
ResearchMed wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 6:55 am I'm especially interested in starting the Louise Penny series. Does it make much of a difference in that series?
I think her character development and the near-British reticence to make horror explicit makes her works much better read in order.
- Sun Dec 05, 2021 11:05 am
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: Protecting Purchasing Power of Cash
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2351
Re: Protecting Purchasing Power of Cash
One can't keep money "safe" in inflation without risk. Your question asks the impossible.
- Tue Jul 27, 2021 10:20 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: roof heating cables nuisance tripping of gfci
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2254
Re: roof heating cables nuisance tripping of gfci
In addition to the above age and condition questions, is it a weather resistant GFCI?
- Sat Jul 10, 2021 5:45 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: How quickly did you receive your 2020 tax refund?
- Replies: 437
- Views: 49837
Re: How quickly did you receive your 2020 tax refund?
Oh joy, oh rapture!! Mailed 1040 on February 17th, received notice of receipt on March 30th, and finally moved from being processed to Refund Approved on July 10th!!! Roughly 5 months.
- Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:05 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: What Is Your Longest-Held Investment?
- Replies: 147
- Views: 15517
Re: What Is Your Longest-Held Investment?
VTSAX 3/4/1996
- Sat Jun 05, 2021 9:34 am
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: IRS estimated tax went to wrong bucket
- Replies: 5
- Views: 668
Re: IRS estimated tax went to wrong bucket
EFTPS and IRS are dissimilar. You may have to use snail mail to reply to IRS and if so certify your response mail.
- Sat May 08, 2021 1:13 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Best options for squashing scammer phone calls?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 7725
Re: Best options for squashing scammer phone calls?
AT&T cordless phones have an excellent call blocker function that has stopped spam calls from any ringing for six months now in my case.
- Thu Apr 29, 2021 5:44 am
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Funeral expenses-10K fair?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3549
Re: Funeral expenses-10K fair?
Thank you for all your responses. I just wanted reassurance that the costs were within reasonable limits as specific questions to the person making the arrangements seem inappropriate just now.
- Wed Apr 28, 2021 6:06 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Funeral expenses-10K fair?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3549
Funeral expenses-10K fair?
Is 10K a fair price for funeral expenses in eastern Massachusetts? The form notes $2600 for professional services from the git-go and then additional fees for personnel at the religious ceremony, etc. My most recent experience was in 2017 when $8500 was the charge?
- Fri Feb 19, 2021 2:38 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: E-filing form 1116 [FreeTaxUSA]
- Replies: 122
- Views: 15540
Re: Can't E-file form 1116
Free tax USA said I could not efile because I needed to attach 1099-R showing tax withheld. This is a new requirement to me.
- Mon Jan 18, 2021 11:37 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Radio Frequency Interference Issue
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2311
Re: Radio Frequency Interference Issue
This discussion solves a 70 year-old mystery of tire chains playing the programming of a nearby radio station. They were suspended horizontally from two nails in the barn of a farm and perpendicular to the tower. I now understand how that could have happened, if unattached speakers can be activated, why not tire chains left out to dry? Thank you.
- Fri Sep 04, 2020 8:28 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Did I pick this butternut squash too early?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3472
Re: Did I pick this butternut squash too early?
Let it mature; it's a hard squash that keeps well .
- Tue Aug 18, 2020 3:03 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: Vxus [Vanguard Total International Stock ETF]
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1402
Re: Vxus [Vanguard Total International Stock ETF]
If you place more than 30% of your stock in international that will extinguish the warning notice on Portfolio Watch
- Mon Jan 13, 2020 6:11 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Which Tax Software
- Replies: 43
- Views: 6668
Re: Which Tax Software
I'm using Free Tax USA this year after Tax Act program prevented me as a widower from filing a single 2018 electronic return. I had used Tax Act for 2017 as married and their program retained my deceased wife's SS number without indicating it was doing so which confused the IRS computer. Cryptic error messages from IRS and Tax Act required my calling a humanoid at Tax Act to amend their coding which was invisible to the naked user! Virginia also billed me for $10 on my state tax return after having accepted the Tax Act electronic submission but I have no reason given from them and no patience for pursuing the case.
- Fri Nov 29, 2019 10:35 am
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: H&R BLOCK Pre-Order 2019 Software Offer
- Replies: 317
- Views: 35427
Re: H&R BLOCK Pre-Order 2019 Software Offer
I ordered from Newegg and the product was downloaded promptly but I am newly on Chromebook and it cannot be opened. Anyone else have this experience?