Recent content by Leo1277

Well, in our case it was a bit of a planning mistake, and we didn't quite expect the roaring market of the last 12 years. We had three of these each, and both of us filled all of them to the max each year. Should have also filled Roths already at that time despite their much lower contribution...

Is that an IPhone case? May serve as a good status symbol as well :laugh:

Isn't that strange, one of the unexpected consequences of the 401k and its ilk. When we all started these we were always told "it is great because your tax rate will be lower in retirement when you withdraw". And it's even worse because of the social security tax torpedo. To at least avoid that...

The Swiss have a 1000 Swiss Francs bill, often used for just that purpose: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-snb-banknote-idUKKCN1QM1KJ I have some funds in Europe, and they are threatening me to soon impose "safeguarding fees", as they call their negative interest rates. The only good thing is...

From the New York Times article, in the text I pasted: So not before the end of the week, and possibly later, and there are all those who got dose 1 in the last 4 weeks and are already incorrectly scheduled. Until it really works you can try the workaround.

I had earlier reported some problems scheduling our Pfizer second dose at Walgreens, and had to resort to a trick to get the right date: Apparently I was not the only one with this trouble, as reported now in the New York Times...

Why do those who don’t know about parallelograms have much higher IRS audit rates? Because percentages were taught right after parallelograms in math class, and they were still not paying attention.

Wow that looks very nice! Just like out of one these magazines of what to do with your patio.

I second that, stamped concrete can look quite nice and doesn't have the weed or sinking problem. We have a front porch that had slate on it, but it turned out the concrete underneath was really poor quality and started to not only crack but crumble. So we re-did the whole thing using stamped...

I would not worry about it, and trust when they say that 24 days is ok. Such kinds of bodily functions have wide ranges of possible reactions, which you can see already from how the side effects vary from person to person. But it's also not too hard to hunt for yourself for a second dose...

I think there's nothing wrong for you to try to hunt for something on your own, and then if you find something, let your original provider know to cancel. We are also getting our second shot at a location different from our first one, which was somewhat inconvenient location-wise...

Just be aware that if you get the Shingrix vaccine, depending on your luck or lack thereof, it may knock you out for several days, you may want to read up on this. And because of the waiting time windows between vaccines, it may push back your Covid shot even further.

I think this is the point, the folks on this forum are not very representative of the population at large, of which also around 50% end up having social security as their only retirement income IIRC. In this case, the 80% number is somewhat appropriate and can maybe create some pressure to...

For 25+ years we, like probably many others, have struggled with those built-in kitchen soap dispensers. They look sleek and get the messy little soap bottle away from the sink - but the big price to pay is the awkwardness of the refill. You either have to try to pour it from the top, which at...

No, you really don't need to! On this site, we recycle dryer sheets, not aluminum foil! :)