Check out https://www.cnpp.usda.gov/sites/default/files/CostofFoodJan2018.pdf They estimate the US Average for your family is $788 on a Thrifty plan. So $700 is pretty good.

I think this resource would be a really good update to include: https://www.cnpp.usda.gov/sites/default/files/CostofFoodJan2018.pdf From the USDA on how much a family can be expected to spend, and it takes into account age of children and liberalness of menu.

Could it be “Thor Foster”, since he was “Thor Odinson”, and Thor is a title?

I’ve been using liquid bandages for years. It’s great. I get agnails a lot, and a dab of bandage covers it to heal. A couple of days ago I had a scratch on my leg. Not very deep, but the kind that burns a lot. Covered with bandage and it was fine.

Agreed, and I’m curious if they even had a choice. Do keygrips, camera men, lighting operators interview? Or is there a contract with a production vendor that provides them (while taking a huge cut off the top and no risk)? This story made me curious how it actually works.

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”

I heard 100% Yanny, the first day. The next day I listened again, heard Laurel, 100%. 30 minutes later Yanny, 2 minutes after that Laurel. All the same clip. It has seriously messed with my head. I assumed that it was an age or processing thing that would be static. However, switching back and forth is crazy. And when…

Trump probably thinks “googling” is something you do with male prostitutes in a Russian hotel room, so he avoids it altogether.

Yep, if it is easy take off the pedals altogether for the first round.

My grandmother’s second husband took her last name, because she already had children with the birth father’s name. That was in the 1920s, in rural Illinois.

This is such a weird implementation. I reminds me of a story a co-worker told me about his sister. She didn’t know what a bookmark was, or really what a URL was. So to get to any site, she would refresh her main page over and over until she got the same banner ad, then she would click on it.

An approach I’ve used that works more generally is to use Slydial. Slydial allows you to go right to a person’s voicemail. So you call slydial, enter their number, and hopefully get their outgoing message. Unless they are like your mother, and they haven’t ever figured how to record an outgoing message.... sigh....

0. “To put the number of estate tax returns filed in perspective, the Population Division of the Bureau of the Census projects that 2.7 million people will die in 2017. Thus, an estate tax return will be filed for only 1 in 237 decedents, and only 1 in 487 will pay any estate tax.” And that is BEFORE it doubled in…

This might help with a part. https://www.thebalance.com/using-non-deductible-iras-to-get-money-into-a-roth-ira-2388699 I think the 401ks, you end up converting to IRAs first, then into ROTHs. But remember you have to pay tax on any of that amount. So you’ll want to look closely at the tax brackets for your situation,…

That works great. A lot of people in the FIRE community look at geoarbitrage, either within the states, or as you have done, in other countries where there cost of living is lower. “Your money or your life” is meant to break people from the “I’ll do whatever everyone else does” mentality. Getting true costs of your…

You are right it has nothing to do with the heirs intent, and that makes sense to me. The government is trying to collect on taxes that were never paid by the original owner.

The gift tax limit is $15k starting in 2018.

With our first, we got huge bills for our new baby. Because he wasn’t on our insurance plan... because he hadn’t been born yet to be added. Luckily that was an easy fix, with a call to the insurance company.

I can not find anything about this only being between 62 and FRA on irs.gov.

I think this is a great time to point out the ROTH ladder as well. If you are can afford to in the first part of your retirement, withdraw up to the limit of the tax bracket you are in, and convert that to a ROTH. If you do that, then you lock in the tax rate for all future earnings. As discussed previously, that…