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    Restaurant adding fee for use of credit card

    A local restaurant charges nothing if you use your debit card but 3% for credit. They are also one of the few US restaurants that I visit where bring the machine to the table, your card never leaves your hand.
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    Anybody Using an Alternative ID Email Address?

    I have 5, one for friends/family, one for financial/government, one for sites with my credit card, one for most other web sites and last one for situations that doesn’t fit into 4. I always use email servers with very good spam filtering and forward email from 2 through 4 to my primary email. I...
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    What are your views on Salim Ramji former exec at Black Rock becoming CEO of Vanguard. should we be concerned?

    Article on the evolution of Vanguard Vanguard 'nickel-and-dimes Grandma' after 49 years without junk fees
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    Rethinking my yearly Roth conversions

    They could start taxing the gains in Roth accounts when money is withdrawn, no double taxation.
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    Fentanyl Dangers

    Children have had home medicine cabinets as a source of drugs for years.
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    2024 Umbrella Policy costs

    $280 for 2 mil with Amica, up $26 from 2021
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    Restaurant adding fee for use of credit card

    The fee can be a wash if you use a cash back cc.
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    Vanguard, Fidelity or Schwab?

    It does a couple times, it gives you higher credit limits if you get a credit card through them and they can move you more personal services if you have high earnings.
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    IRS error CP14 letter in mail today

    Setting up an IRS account can be a frustrating experience, especially if you select the id.me option but I look at it being mandatory to plant your flag on all these government web sites.
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    QCD confused

    Its a shame they still use manual checks since most of the firms have associated DAFs which allow on-line electronic contributions. Check fraud in the past few years has increased dramatically even as the use of checks has dropped.
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    Airline mileage programs

    Global Entry costs go to $120 in October, be interesting to see if cc increase their reimbursement rate.
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    Forum Update - We're back! Ask your questions here.

    Now requires two picks to ignore a thread
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    What Debit/Credit Card Do You Use When Travelling To The UK?

    Always travel with 2 cc, Chase Sapphire is my primary for its travel protections and the backup is a visa card. Both cc are tap to pay so I don’t need to deal with signing issues. Take a Schwab debit card for no transaction fees if a need to get foreign cash.
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    Social Security Number on The Dark Web

    The pin requested when filing your yearly tax return electronically.
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    Social Security Number on The Dark Web

    I have used the same pin for years and never have applied for a new one.
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    Social Security Number on The Dark Web

    Krebs from Krebs on Security blog recommends “planting your flag” on the social security, medicare and IRS websites so no third party can do it.
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    Velcro shoe ties

    My sneakers only last a year before they wear out so I don’t think velcro would be an issue.
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    TurboTax on a Mac puts an unknown password on the file

    At least on the Mac the first time you save your tax return, TurboTax defaults to file encryption. You need to turn it off then it remembers it on subsequent saves. I never tried saving with the encrypted option.
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    Need to limit my account viewing.

    With the advent of on-line access, no more written checks and alert capability from my financial firms, I have stopped using Quicken. It is much easier just to look for suspicious transactions on-line and I have linked all by accounts on Schwab to get the trend chart.
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    About death and money

    You should leave a current list of your logins and passwords with your will. Also the passcode/password for your phone if you have enabled two factor.
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    USB-C on cell phone to USB-A on computer to transfer data. Easy?

    I wouldn’t use that cable for charging, data transfer would be ok.
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    Social Security (House) Proposal

    Include a capital gains tax to fund social security.
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    Latest Inflation Numbers and Discussion

    Or you could be Apple which in the global cell phone market only sold 18% of cell phones but garnered 85% of the profits.
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    Latest Inflation Numbers and Discussion

    I find as I get older, I am more than satisfied with a Wendy’s single or a son of a Baconator.
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    Automakers (especially GM) may be reporting to your insurance co

    They use LexusNexus and you can order a report for the data they have on you. Search “lexusnexus privacy report”
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