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I pay all four installments upon receiving my statement from the county assessor. Whatever small amount of interest I forgo is well worth not having to give property taxes another thought until the following year.

If the current rate of inflation is enough to require you to return to work then you had insufficient funds to retire.

That happened to me a long time ago at a cheap motel in Idaho, can't even recall which town. I was a young single male at the time and it somehow didn't occur to me to call the police when a young child, sobbing uncontrollably wandered into the open door of my room. I picked her up and rocked...

While it doesn't have a snowballs chance of becoming law, I could live with the changes. I especially like the proposal to eliminate the deduction on mortgage interest.

I've seen it advised (though I haven't tried it myself) to buy a bag of rice and seal the rice and wet electronic device in a plastic bag until dry. Rice is hygroscopic and will draw moisture out of places you can't see. See Google, "drying electronics with rice" for more info on the method than...

That's good to hear. REI is opening another store on the other side of the valley in Summerlin this November. Though too far to drive for a part-time job, it should open up some positions in their nearby Henderson store. As a member of the coop, I got a postcard a couple of weeks ago regarding...

As others have mentioned, it should be fairly easy to come up with a portfolio of dividend paying stocks which collectively pay over 3% these days. My portfolio of 24 individual non-REIT stocks yields 3.61% as of todays market close. Adding my 6 REIT's bumps the yield up to 4.17%. My first...

I'm sure it will be delicious...and of great medicinal value should you wind up in that predicament!:)

I stuck a box of Black Box cabernet (sans the box) in the bottom of my backpack on a recent trip. A little heavy to begin with, but the load got lighter every day! Nothing like walking a few miles to enhance the taste of a wine...it was easily a 90+ points wine when far enough back in the woods....

July 1 marks 2 years for me. First 3 months were especially sweet while I burned accumulated leave. Not only was it cool to get paid every Friday without going to work, but I learned a higher-up was quite tweaked with me that I had accumulated so much vacation/personal time and with HR for...

For just basic computer needs (email, pix, word processing, etc) for a non-gamer, is there really any need to future-proof by going for a quad over a core2duo? At least at the moment, Dell has a quad available for $499 but also has several core2duo's at their refurbished site in the mid-$300...

Yep, guilty! Dear girlfriend asks me what I'm thinking; I reply honestly, "Nothing." And then I'm in trouble! Heavy sigh....:rolleyes:

Retired RPh, same deal for us...mailbox usually contains at least one help-wanted postcard daily.

I've got a bunch including Aflac, Altria Clorox, Coca Cola, Energen, Exxon, GE, J&J, 3M, Otter Tail, Pepsico, P&G, RPM, Walgreens, Wells Fargo, Federal Realty, Prologis Trust, United Dominion and Washinginton REIT. So long as they continue increasing their dividends annually, I'll hold them...

The tax on my townhouse in Henderson NV (Clark County) was $1306.80 for the 2006-07 tax year based on an assessed Tax Value of $214,934. As others have mentioned, there are caps in place on future increases.

I'm rather envious of the kid. ;)

So, would the HP PavillonDV5237CL that Costco is selling for $999 be a good choice? My current computer is an old Dell running Windows 98. I've thought about trying a Mac, but I'm not sure that I really want to learn a new operating system (not that I know much about Windows beyond e-mail and...

Various conservation organizations and the University of Wyoming (and some to my two brothers, should I croak before them ;)) yko

Pen and notebook paper. Quite a technological advance over my previous system using the back of old envelopes. ;)

Like brewer, Scott Burn's suggests a 5-year treasury ladder. You say you want to accumulate the cash over 5 to 7 years. Why not just purchase a 5-year treasury note yearly for 5 years? At the end of 5 years, you'll have your ladder established and could then just roll over the notes as they come...

My head is spinning! ??? Boy, am I glad that dearly(?) departed ***** was not a numbers guy. The double whammy woulda been unbearable ;) No offense intended, mind you. :) Say, when y'all get this figured out could you devote just a couple of minutes of your time to determine who will win next...

While this Scott Burn's column doesn't specifically address withdrawal rates, it does have an interesting take on its corolary, How much is enough? Indeed, if you start thinking about either retirement or being "rich" in terms of dollars, it's very likely you'll never get there, because the...

Even more so for an expeditionary fighting force like the U.S. Marine Corp, whose training and tradition leaves them particularly ill-suited to be serving as an occupying police force.

unclemick, you crack me up! :laugh:

Vagabond, that's just about my story too. Except  75% of my portfolio was in the stock of a single company, my blue chip drug company employer. (Is a portfolio really a portfolio with 75% in one company?) I remember thinking at the time that I was pretty smart, invested as I was in a blue chip...