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Two Idiots Fishing

Trying to keep Tabs on my finances
Sun - Sep 27 03:07am
While trying to fall asleep but failing to do so, I decided to write down my retrospective of this weekend's fishing and kaya...
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2026: The Year of the Waterfall

Save More, Spend Less
Sat - Sep 26 10:18pm
I'm back from a wonderful waterfall trip in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Together with two prior trips this year tha...
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August, September, and Upcoming Travels

Monkey Mama*s Monkey Money Blog
Sat - Sep 26 05:43pm
I never did an August update.  I thought we might be in the black in August.  We were, but it was a close breakeven...
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February - August 2026

Petunia in a Flower Garden
Fri - Sep 25 09:21pm
That time went by quickly! My aunt is doing better. She was moved to another location, closer to her daughter.  We did...
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Making Do

Frugal Foodie
Fri - Sep 18 09:45pm
Harvest is currently going on around us. We live in Central Illinois where the two main crops are corn and soybeans. It has b...
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The Latest From The Saving Advice Forums

The never ending CD dilemma...

Drake3287 • 27 Sep 2026 17:19:15
For those of you that play the CD game, what's the percentage rate that has you looking for a new bank with a higher APR when your CD matures? It's always been sort of been a pain for me deal with all the time. Assuming you have a...
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How to change brokerage companies?

Drake3287 • 27 Sep 2026 17:16:04
Long story short, for years I've had a brokerage account with one of the larger well known companies until a couple of years ago when they closed the local office where I live. In turn they transferred my account to a person on th...
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Retirement who uses dividend stocks

Atretes1 • 27 Sep 2026 17:12:40
I'm about 5 years from retirement at age 55. I'll have a six-figure pension (no COLA), and my current liquid investment portfolio is around $810k. Between now and retirement, I plan to: Max out my 457(b), Roth IRA, and HSA ever...
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Ebay sellers thread (other platforms too...

disneysteve • 27 Sep 2026 15:51:29
I know a few of you sell at least occasionally on ebay. I don't think any of you sell regularly but I may be wrong. I figured I'd start a thread for any ebayers to share tips and tricks and progress and challenges. I've been on e...
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$100,000 to spend

bjl584 • 27 Sep 2026 14:35:37
Something fun I saw online. If you are handed $100,000 under the conditions that you can't invest it, use it to pay off debt, or buy/renovate real estate, what are you spending it on? This was hard for me, as I am not a big sp...
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