I have no quarrel with anything Xan has said. He has been an excellent administrator, and I intend to do my part to bring down the level of rancor on this forum. Hopefully we can do this without sacrificing our ability to engage in hard-hitting debates over controversial topics. Necessarily this in...

Maddy wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 22, 2020 6:55 pm

And don't order anything from Amazon.

ebooks are probably okay!

sophie wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 18, 2020 2:30 pm

Hilarious that there's a solution readily available that these articles studiously avoid mentioning.

Why would anyone live below their own means, when not doing so means (hah!) that you can also live on someone else's!?

The migration patterns are interesting here in Bay Area: many techies and tech-related folks move to Texas and Washington as Austin and Seattle are growing as tech hubs and still are less expensive to live. Which just brings more of those problems to Seattle (and I presume Austin). Granted, we alre...

I wouldn't touch stocks with a 20 foot pole unless I was in the PP, so we are all profiting from this, but it just seems so much smoke and mirrors. We go from WW3 starting to All is Well in 48 hours. It's like this is all running on a 2 hour movie timescale. Agreed, I've been struggling with this a...

Thanks for reviving this, vnatale . I've been thinking about this lately as well. For me, it's about 80%. I have a chunk in Vanguard Wellesley as well (VWIAX) -- about 15%, and then another 5% here and there in CDs and an angel investment. I'm currently in the lucky position of being able to save a ...

I've not used any of those, but many years ago I was laid off and it took me 9 months to find another gig. To keep myself sharp, I found side projects that interested and challenged me (at the time, learned JavaScript and to program Firefox extensions, coming from a background of C++). Any ideas of ...

Good topic, Sophie! Very curious to hear others' thoughts. This past year I have tried to consolidate accounts - most now lives at Schwab. Rolled over a previous employer's 401k, moved a rollover IRA, and transferred assets from another brokerage account. Also closed out bank accounts I held at othe...

Still have to update a few numbers, but looks to be a little over 15% on the year using simple math (<end value> - <cost basis>)/<cost basis>).

Ending allocation:

Gold: 22.82%
Stock: 26.13%
Cash: 25.45%
LTT: 25.60%

I balked at using a Kindle a few years ago. But it's all I read on now. The ability to carry so many books in one thing, and with month+ battery life, and (lately...) the ability to increase font size...! Same here -- was steadfastly a physical book person. Then started using my SO's old kindle, an...

sophie wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 17, 2019 9:46 pm

I have to say that the last time I saw a letter like that, it was written by a guy who ended up in a psychiatric hospital a few weeks later.

Sophie, is this said "matter-of-fact"-ly, or is there an implication here?

dualstow wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 16, 2019 4:56 pm

They never got my check. I've never had that happen before.
Pissed.

Someone steal it out of your mailbox? That's pretty common around here these days, sadly...