Recent content by jimy

We just have a few streaming services. I will say I was disappointed with PBS Passport. We did watch some PBS documentaries and enjoyed them. But the programming beyond what is available from “free” PBS seems very poor - lots of foreign series with dubbed in voices and what to us seemed low...

Our Samsung is 8+ years old. Still looks fine to us. Finding quality content to watch is the hard part. Jim

Thanks for all the great responses. I'm thinking it may be best to remove myself as the beneficiary for the two IRA's. That will put things back to what my parents and their elder care attorney put in place originally. I should not have followed the advice I got to put myself as beneficiary...

I have a question about my fathers will. Dad has been in a nursing home with dementia for 4-5 years and currently doesn't speak or even open his eyes on most visits. He has been this way for a year or more. Mom passed away several years ago. I am 58 and have been retired for about four...

I find the comments about only keeping/scanning photos that include family members interesting. I am somewhat the opposite. I think vintage photos are so much more interesting when the people are doing something - posing by a car, in a factory, working the farm, etc etc. Family photos by the...

Thanks for all the idea's - I will look further into everything brought up. I think it would be very awkward for us to sell our current home first. We are looking for a place in the nearby Finger Lakes area of NY. Our primary needs are close access to the water for swimming and paddling...

My wife and I are "early retired" - me soon to be 55 and she is 52. We have no debt, including no mortgage on our home worth perhaps 250k. We have about 1.45m with about 2/3's in IRA funds, and the rest in mutual funds and about 125k in cash. No income other than interest on the cash and...

I used that strategy (specialty drug with drug copay card) with my employers HSA plan for several years. It did seem too good to be true, but it worked for us. The out of pocket max wasn't exceeded until around June because the copay dropped from around 4k to perhaps $300 after a couple of...

Yes, $1M would be pretty light for us. Probably doable and we'd probably enjoy a great simple life riding our bicycles, paddling, hiking, etc. But my preference is to let that grow until I could draw from my IRA's. (and hopefully the funds would actually grow!) If I leave megacorp I envision...

I'm new to the forum (but have been lurking for about a year) I have just "fired" my financial advisor and am in the process of moving that money from AssetMark to Vanguard. About half of it is an IRA which I plan to put into VTTVX Vanguard Target Retirement 2025 Fund. That should be pretty...