Recent content by tapper

This question has been bouncing around the media lately and I was wondering if the members of the ER forum have similar financial experiences over the past four years. Are You Better Off Now Than You Were Four Years Ago? - US News and World Report My investments are up about 34% since...

I have been playing Kenken lately.

I second Nords' physical therapist recommendation. They will provide you with numerous exercise/stretch recommendations to help your back. My back has been going out on occasion for the last fifteen years for as simple of an action as reaching around a corner to turn on a light switch and...

I use KeePassX (https://www.keepassx.org/) which was a port of KeePass to Linux. It has since been ported back to Windows and ported to the Mac. I have been using it for years and it has served me well.

Here is what I found from a negatives standpoint which may be positives depending on your point of view. From Security Freeze

I just searched through the United States Constitution and its amendments and I did not find any RIGHT to retirement. Retirement should just be a privilege for those who choose to participate and therefore the government shouldn't be coming up with new ways of collecting our money. I believe...

I saw this article yesterday and immediately thought of this thread. Retirees hit hard by foreclosures - Yahoo! Finance I suspect that it's really difficult to be foreclosed if you have no mortgage.

In 2011 the dental charges were $3193 of which we paid $912 so insurance covered $2281 through direct payments and discounted pricing. 2010 was similar and 2012 should be similar as well. The DW has been having some dental work done lately trying to maximize our insurance benefits. The coverage...

imoldernu had the following comment in a recent post: I was interested in other people's experiences with healthcare costs when transitioning to Medicare. At age 46 our health insurance last year was $10227, dental insurance was $1670, and out of pocket expenses were $6891 which produced a...

Interesting. I compared the NAV with Yahoo's and they matched so the only thing broken is the fund's name is not displayed correctly. That's good enough for me. Thanks!

I make use of GETQUOTE (GetQuote: About) to grab quotes for my spreadsheet and it works well. I have cells with a formula such as =IF($A$6="Fetch",GETQUOTE(B4),"") where B4 contains the fund symbol and $A$6 controls whether the quote is fetched at all. I then do a Paste Special of the fetched...

I sent feedback to them a couple of days ago saying that my portfolio was alphabetical and I didn't have the alphabetical option set. I also noted that it was now useless to me in its current form. I have not received any response. I have since added the funds I'm interested in tracking to the...

Is there anything in the law to allow for a deduction for health insurance? It doesn't seem very fair that group policy holders get an implicit deduction while individual policy holders don't. The upward adjustment to unreimbursed medical expenses seems to be applying some salt to the wound.

My spreadsheet tells me I'm up 10.63% since January 1st as of today. I'm essentially 100% stock funds. I'm at 95.7% of my previous max which is partially the result of paying off the mortgage with proceeds from a bond fund and taxes paid last year when I rearranged my investments to be better in...

Reminds me of a Matt Wahl song...