Brian Mueller if your reading this, please make an android version :)
Aaron Liske
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A friend has this thing. It just makes him work harder at seeing how many alarms he can get to go off in any given trip.
This worked pretty well for Milton from Office Space. After having his desk moved 5 times and his stapler stolen, he finally decided to burn the office to the ground
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Aw shucks
I'll be around during the week now, doing Dealhacker full time :)
Due to their propensity to randomly kill off features, I have consciously tried to NOT use more Google features in the expectation that if I do find something useful, they will just decide to kill it off when I come to depend on it.
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Well done!
Massive congratulations, Aaron!
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Look into Betterment. I've had an account with them for a little over a year now as a college fund for my god daughter. I decided to keep it separate from my Vanguard-based general investment stuff because I'll eventually be passing ownership over to her.
So yes, I did start small doing $50-100 a month into my "Retirement Test" sub-account, and then putting that in Vanguard once I had enough to start a Roth IRA with them. (I just looked, and minimum initial deposit with Vanguard is $3k, other companies such as Fidelity are less.)