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So I found an older version of my spreadsheet I used to track finances, put it into Google Docs, and changed a bunch of numbers (don't want to give too much away :) http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p9E-fvXA2f7NlU_SuKUVSMQ&hl=en Let me know if that link doesn't work for people, I've never...

Just today I noticed two articles talking about buying eye glasses online. I read a bit more and it seems to be a pretty good deal. We're talking less than $50 for frames + lenses. It is good timing, as my eyes have gotten worse over the last couple years since I last got glasses. Time to...

In the same thread that we earlier went through with Vanguard, I e-mailed Fidelity, offering to transfer over all of my accounts if they would do HSA administration. I received their response today: So it looks promising, they're looking into it, and have a pilot service going. It seems the...

Scottrade didn't have any good methods of transferring money between accounts (and their interface was out of date, their service was poor, etc), so awhile ago I transferred to E-Trade. Just 5 minutes ago I received a call from Scottrade, which went basically as follows: Person: Hi David, this...

Hopefully this hasn't been commented on already, I didn't notice anything yet. I know that most people on the board are pretty anti-annuity, since they're very inefficient, etc. I just thought I'd point out this article...

So, I'm about to place my montly (ish) purchase order in my taxable account on last Friday. The stock was around 74.85 (had been dropping all day). I set a limit order to 75.80 (I mistyped, meant to type 74.90 which is sorta funny in its own way), but the market closed shortly after my order...

I thought I'd share our travel blog with this board. As quick background information, my wife and I took a vacation last year, driving from Chicago, up through Wyoming/etc, down through California to Vegas, and then back to Chicago. It was a great vacation, stopping in many major parks, and...

I've seen this mentioned enough that I know I'm not the only one with this potential problem. My wife and I are 30/29, and our parents are in their mid-late 50's. My parents-in-law have retired (and are rapidly running out of cash), and my parents are still working (but still spending up a...

The last 2 times when I've logged in, I get a message that I typed in an invalid login/password, I would get X more attempts, etc. But that's my success message? I logged in my first try and I'm still getting that message, it's very strange.

I think the "Hi, I am" board needs a "Read this first" post. It can say a few things about how to post. The largest issue I have is #1 below, but all of them are certainly applicable to many of the posters. I'm thinking something like: 1. Please make the subject of your post something unique...

Everyone who posts here has probably seen those cute little tickerfactory tickers in people's sigs. 7 months until retirement, that kind of thing. Well, I tried to make one for myself, but the dropdown for events only had until the year 2010 or something like that, making it impossible to have...

So my wife and I were talking about walking the Appalachian trail as we do sometimes, and she asked when we could do this. (FYI, our current goal is around 10 years to retirement at age 40). I said that one option would be to wait a year or so, save up around $15k for expenses during the walk...

I'm still a worker bee... but it is Thursday during the most dead week of the year. I think I'm one of the rare people who is still pretending to do work ;) Anyway, on to my question. I was just wondering if anyone had any insight into why most people seem to turn off their brains when it comes...

Just thought I'd type out my thoughts here, since in general people here have similar values. I'm 28 by the way (less than a month to 29), working in technology (coding type stuff). Current job: Management position 80k (most likely will be added into the bonus structure next year) Pretty likely...