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What is your favorite summertime fruit?


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For the watermelon lovers

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Who does money?

Will my bank just let me withdraw a bunch of money out of my savings? I'd leave money in there. Then put a bunch of money back 6 months from now? Are there hoops I'd need to go through for that since it's a bunch of money?

I'm trying to get some of these T-notes. They're like 6% right now

It's your money and you can do what you want with it lol. Just check what the minimum balance to avoid a monthly fee on your Savings account is. Also if you need a large amount of cash from your local branch call ahead to make sure they can accomodate. Banks dont keep as much cash on hand anymore as you'd think.
 
Money market funds are also where the money is flowing.

I maxed out on I bonds last year (10k limit)...they were yielding about 9% at maturity. Got them on Treasurydirect. I bought them for my mom as well...

If you have money in savings yielding .05% you are a chump....
 
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Money market funds are also where the money is flowing.

I maxed out on I bonds last year (10k limit)...they were yielding about 9% at maturity. Got them on Treasurydirect. I bought them for my mom as well...

If you have money in savings yielding .05% you are a chump....

One of our subsidiaries, Citizens Access, has an online only savings account yielding 4.25% right now. $5K minimum. Easy to set up right from your phone. I just did one for myself last week.
 
One of our subsidiaries, Citizens Access, has an online only savings account yielding 4.25% right now. $5K minimum. Easy to set up right from your phone. I just did one for myself last week.
Those are rare but pretty good....

Short term treasuries were more competitive still.
 
Money market funds are also where the money is flowing.

I maxed out on I bonds last year (10k limit)...they were yielding about 9% at maturity. Got them on Treasurydirect. I bought them for my mom as well...

If you have money in savings yielding .05% you are a chump....
Treasurydirect has nothing to it right? Sign up, pick a note, then wait? No fees?
 
The absolute best fruit in the world is cherimoya. Mark Twain acknowledged this during his time in Hawaii, as well as many other well traveled explorers/botanists.

"The pineapple, the mangosteen, and the cherimoya", wrote the botanist Berthold Carl Seemann, "are considered the finest fruits in the world, and I have tasted them in those localities where they are supposed to attain their highest perfection – the pineapple in Guayaquil, the mangosteen in the Indian Archipelago, and the cherimoya on the slopes of the Andes, and if I were asked which would be the best fruit, I would choose without hesitation, cherimoya. Its taste, indeed, surpasses that of every other fruit, and Haenke was quite right when he called it the masterpiece of Nature."

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There are similar looking fruits native to Asia, but this comes from South America and is much better. "The velvety flesh of a Cherimoya is a delicious, custardy blend of banana, pineapple and strawberry notes." While it does have the black seeds, its flesh to seed ratio is extremely high, unlike something like mangosteen.
 
Treasurydirect has nothing to it right? Sign up, pick a note, then wait? No fees?
Yeah. It is straighforward. I did have to do something for my mom...get her signature certified at the bank. Can't remember the details. I was dealing with papework issues out my ass bc of my dad's estate matters. Mine though I just set up straightforward and linked my bank account and transferred funds to the treasurydirect account when I bought. They were slammed at that time so my mom's took longer bc of that signature issue.

*no middleman BS fees....
 
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Imagine having to sit through all those f***ing DJs to get to them.

I tuned into the livestream a bit early, 10 minutes before Blink started, and that DJ that was on from an earlier recording was f***ing horrible. There’s good electronic/dance music out there but that dude was so awful it was kind of hilarious.
 
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