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It's okay--I'll keep the light on for you. </Tom Bodell>

Damn, I wish I got the reference. Who is that woman?

Based on my investment thread, @spaggyroe decided to start a spinoff thread about the FIRE movement. In that thread, @Paul R said: Based on that comment, I decided to start this spinoff thread. What books on finance/investing have you read that you would recommend to others? I spent 2020...

Yeah, I transfered my annual contribution limit ($7k) into my Roth on January 1st, but because that was a business holiday my funds didn't actually appear until Tuesday the 5th. This may not have been a bad thing, as overall Monday was a down day for the market. Tuesday morning I followed my...

This is certainly the heart of the matter. If you manage to live well within your means, and you don't blow the excess on hookers and... well, blow, then pretty much anyone can retire before they are in their mid-to-late 60s. It definitely does mean different things to different people--even...

THIS x eleventy billion. How I would phrase it to my (mythical) kids: "Save and invest at least 20% of every dollar you receive in your entire lifetime, starting with your very first job."

Same here. Actually, had I known way back when what I know now and had I begun investing with my first job, I could probably be retired by now. Instead, I've got another 15 years to put myself where I want/need to be to leave the work force and be able to spend my time as I choose. I only...

This weekend (January 2018) my co-worker Mike and I made the 800-mile trek to Tucson to attend the Roadkill Zip-Tie Drags. This is the closest any ZTD event is to our homes, so we decided it was worth the trip. I loaded my 1980 Grand Prix on to my trailer and towed it with my 2001 8.1L...

Okay, I'll need to fire up the laptop....

Big RK fan here. I dragged my Grand Prix down to Tuscon and attended the 2018 Zip Tie drag event. Even though the event was rained out, we had a great time. I had a hilarious drag strip experience there, which I wrote out in another forum. Maybe I should post it here, too.

Okay, goal defined. Perfect. (Re-stating a gross simplification for conversation's sake) There are two primary ways to make money in the stock market: capital appreciation and dividends. The former follows the simple "buy low, sell high" mentality--you buy shares now, and hope that in the...

For set-it-and-forget-it peace of mind, I would actually suggest putting money in an index fund (either S&P500 fund or total stock market fund) rather than individual stocks. While this would pay less in dividends, your child would never need to check on it--just ignore it and let it compound...

In my year of studying about investing, I've come across many older folks who told stories about starting their kids off right by beginning to invest with/for them at a young age. On the opposite side of the coin, I've also seen numerous younger people who had received stocks/investments when...

For years, this was my go-to Christmas album: It was also my only Christmas music album. Nevertheless, each December I would pull it off the shelf, blow the dust off it, and enjoy it for the month until it was put away in January. So it went, year after year, until last year... when I...

That is exactly how I did it.

Untrue, at least based on my own experience. I used to run a Taurus fan on my Grand Prix, and I set it up for low-speed operation only just as you plan to do. I controlled it via a single relay, and its main power wire from the battery had only a 30amp fuse. That fuse never blew.

If you do end up needing to use the fuse box for the low-power trigger wire, my favorite method to do so is via an "Add-A-Circuit" fuse adapter. It is clean, elegant way to do exactly this. (I would link a picture, but I'm on my iPad which is a pain in the patoot do do things like that. Sorry.)

Control it via a simple relay. The relay's spades are numbered. Connect each as follows: 30: connect direct to battery + via a heavy wire. Place an inline fuse right next to the battery connection. 87: connect to the fan's low-speed power wire. 86: connect via a small wire to any convenient...

Open your account this year! Even if you only make an initial deposit of $10, open the account in 2020. You'll be allowed to make contributions for the 2020 year up to April 15th, 2021 and that's very important since you are so limited in the amount you can contribute to a Roth IRA. If you...

The few times I've had someone talk to me about investing, they end up asking me about day trading--that seems to be what most people nowadays envision when they hear the word investing. Personally, I avoid it like the plague and suggest that others do the same. I've found a few studies on the...