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  1. mebden

    Forum Update - We're back! Ask your questions here.

    I like the new look I will just have to play around on here and figure everything out but nice and bright great job. .
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    Forum Downtime - software update scheduled April 23/24

    Hopefully when it comes back up I'll be richer than today lol
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    Best CD, MM Rates & Bank Special Deals Thread 2024 - Please post updates here

    Ok Sunset but what brokerage you at? And I have not hit the no penalty age of 59 1/2 then I will probably switch to Schwab where I see they are offering a checking account now but thru your brokerage account and I'm not willing to give anything more away than I have to bad enough with the...
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    Best CD, MM Rates & Bank Special Deals Thread 2024 - Please post updates here

    pb I agree 100% with you as I've been doing online banking for over 5 years now and I wish I would of known about them sooner but all the big banks try to keep it out of the media and just think if everyone pulled their money out of all these big glass palaces, they call banks and moved it to...
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    Best CD, MM Rates & Bank Special Deals Thread 2024 - Please post updates here

    Hey Jack this looks good to me and I do use this website to look at how the bank is rated here (https://www.bauerfinancial.com/cd-rate-watch) and I try to only use a couple of different types of online banks and as soon as I can find 1 that has both I will switch to it. That means no fees...
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    Best CD, MM Rates & Bank Special Deals Thread 2024 - Please post updates here

    Hey Gray I don't think thats why they give higher rates its because they don't have all the brick and mortar buildings they keep their overhead low not like the big banks that crashed in the last 2 and it doesn't matter what back you have your money at if they go belly up you will still fight to...
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    Best CD, MM Rates & Bank Special Deals Thread 2024 - Please post updates here

    I still don't get why people keep chasing high % CD's which most have been lower than some savings accounts online? When you have online bank accounts offering 5.32% APY interest rate at 5.17% for money market accounts which is the same as a high breed savings account or on another bank online...
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    TMobile internet

    I just use theirs it has no added cost for it.
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    TMobile internet

    I have had T-Mobile Internet from when it 1st came out as they were offering unlimited internet and no price increase for a total of $40 a month and I used to have AT&T before and they kept jacking with my rates so I dropped them and Went with T-Mobile Internet and I have less problems with it...
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    New Car Dealer REQUIRES Financing

    I did this back in 2021 on a 2020 vehicle I looked it up online and it was actually rental truck with very low miles on it like 10000 miles. I got the price emailed to me that we had agreed upon over the phone and it was 0% interest for the whole loan thru them but when I got there to pick the...
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    Why are older Americans drinking so much

    Jerry I'm a living example of quitting smoking the day my son was born 24 years ago and never touched another one after that day because as a kid I remember times being at card parties my parents were at that the smoke was so thick us kids would play fire drills of drop and roll and stay close...
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    March Madness

    It was about time the Badgers showed up to play Purdue and they have a good chance of winning the tourney against Illinois. I don't get to watch the Badgers play that much where I'm at now but they hitting on all cylinders right now.
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    Poll: What generation are you?

    I'm just a Gen xer to
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    Poll about do you like to dance? men vs ladies

    Man here, I took up dancing when I was in the Navy as it was the best way to meet woman as they were always liking the way I moved and I still do it today but my dancing is to help keep fit as you can really break a sweat when you moving to the beat of the music.
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    I gave notice today!

    Well Steve congratulations on your retirement and I hope you have many years to enjoy it
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    Would it be better to take Social Security at 62?

    I'll take SS after I read this below After I was shown this spread sheet on taking SS at 62, I think I will just in case I don't make it till 70 and if I do, I'll invest every penny of it while taking it at 62 years of age and be a lot richer at 70. Also seen way too many people die before...
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    state tax on $60k income (MFJ)

    Well, I'm glad you like Connecticut Gumby and Taxes had nothing to do with your choice of where to live. I know when I finally retire, I will move to a tax friendly state just because every state I lived in and worked in taxed the crap out of me and anytime I cannot pay wasteless money to a...
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    Another Vanguard Rant

    Hey KG, I feel your pain I just added money from my outside checking account which is already linked to my Roth401K plan with Schwab, and they are holding my deposit for 6 days to clear to before I can buy certain funds I never had this issue with TD Ameritrade. I'm really starting to hate there...
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    Bank Fees

    Hey Bookman51 that same bank (Farmers & Merchants Bank) is in my old hometown I lived in Northern Wisconsin and that bank has been there for over 70 years and when I started 1st saving there, they thought they could charge their customers whatever they wanted because there were only few banks in...
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    Credit, Debit, or Cash

    I use CC for 95% of my payments for the reward program and pay it off monthly but will write a check once and a while for work around the house and cash for tips. I never use a debit card.
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    Poll: Drinking Preferences (Alcohol)

    I like my home-made Brandi & Sweet on my days off and usually top that off with a good old ice-cold tap beer out of my kegerator.
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    What got you excited about retirement saving?

    I started to save right after my active-duty hitch in the Navy once I started my new civilian job. The reason I started saving way back in 1987 was I didn't want to be like my grandpa and his friends that only had SSI to live on as they never believed in saving or the stock market, and I...
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    Thirty-Six Years Today Stock Market Crash

    I had just gotten out of the Navy of active duty in September 1987 after labor day and started my 1st real civilian job in October so I had no money in the market but sure got to hear about alot of the old timers say I'm sure glad I never invested in the stock market but them I watched all these...
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    Hi from new member

    Welcome to the forum Cosmic
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    Retired today

    Alex the great take the unemployment to the end Companies hate it when you file for it as I was pushed out to this month and when you file against them they like to fight it and say you were terminated per job performance so they don't have to pay the claim and their unemployment insurance...
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