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I'm looking for advice on deciding on hip replacement for my 85-year-old mother. I received an email from a sibling this morning. She lives in the same city as my mother and brother, thousands of miles from me. My sister asked my brother and I if we should explore the possibility of my mother...

I'm looking for suggestions on how to select an executor for our will. I'm not looking for a space alien as the title might suggest, but as of now there are no longer any suitable relatives or friends that I would choose to saddle with the chore, so I'm thinking of an organization like The...

I'm attempting to help my spouse with his chore of selecting and purchasing a SPIA. He is doing this because of an aging parent's desire to provide a lifetime monthly check to a former employee and friend. The friend lives in Georgia. My spouse lives in State A, and his parent lives in State...

A person that I trust, and is well-meaning, but is financially (and in other ways) ignorant, will in about 10 days from now need to transfer to me an amount of money that would pay for a luxury car (not that I'd buy one:coolsmiley:). She is in another state of the U.S. than I am. The cash will...

Sorry if this has been addressed elsewhere, but I didn't find it. Suddenly (like in the next week or so) it's my job to find a good board-certified geriatric physician for an elderly relative in a different state. This person is in a medigap plan. Is there a web site of board certified...

and it's suggested I should issue a "fraud alert" to the three credit reporting agencies if I'm one of the State of Alaska active or ex employees whose personal information was compromised. BUT... I've read several different news releases and they give different or ambiguous information as to...

Reed Says ‘I’m Sorry’ for Role in Creating Citigroup (Update1) - Bloomberg.com "Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- John S. Reed, who helped engineer the merger that created Citigroup Inc., apologized for his role in building a company that has taken $45 billion in direct U.S. aid and said banks that big...

I mentioned in another thread that I'm one of the lucky who react to Poison Oak (actually the oil called urushiol on the surface of the leaves) by having my skin basically fall off. I didn't properly appreciate my skin until it fell off. It did eventually heal but I had to wrap my legs in...

I have morse code coming in my computer speakers and stereo intermittently, to the point that I have to leave the stereo, radio and speakers off most of the time, it's so annoying. It may have something to do with the guy who moved in next door and erected several towers and wires all over...

I'm easing into rebalancing, because I do not have the guts (or faith) to buy such a huge chunk of equities all at once. I've been buying a little bit once a week, on the same day each week. But now I wonder if it's a good or bad idea to always buy on the same day. Does the market end down more...

If this isn't the place to ask this question, please feel free to suggest a better place. I'm wondering if anyone here has experience buying a fund closed to new investors in a Vanguard brokerage. I own ACINX outside of the brokerage (directly from Columbia) but not in the brokerage. On the...

Oh how I wish I could turn on public tv right now and have the comforting visage of Louis Rukeyser, and hear him make some silly pun. I mean, I'm not panicking or anything, really I'm not.:rolleyes: But please, Louis, manipulate some keyboard from the deep beyond and convince us all that the sun...

My 88 Chevy Nova (hey, don't laugh, I paid cash for it in 1988!) is parked under a cottonwood tree. After the seed clusters fall, the car is covered in white fluff and spots of brown sticky from the seed clusters. I can wash off the white fluff, but the brown sticky stays. The car has a...

I've been ERed for seven years now, simple investment allocation, frugal lifestyle. I have learned the hard way (years ago) that I absolutely never know what the stock market is going to do, or the housing market, and the one investment advisor and the one realtor I ever hired were both less...

Hi there. I ERed at age 46. I'm now in my 50's, married, no kids, living in Anchorage, Alaska, but considering moving to a warmer place at least part of the year.