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What are some deals you take advantage of when you travel to another country?

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What are some deals you take advantage of when you travel to another country? When I visit india or Mexico or Bali or any place that has a lower cost of living than america, I get my haircuts/beard trims along with gray hair coloring done for 1/3 the price of what it would be in the us. For example, I got a haircut, beard trim, and got my grays dyed for $15. The same services in America would easily be $50. My wife also d…

Reddit Travel 748 2025-01-18

Signed up for Whole Life Insurance Policy. How bad am I being taken advantage of?

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Signed up for Whole Life Insurance Policy. How bad am I being taken advantage of? I met with a financial advisor from Northwestern Mutual last July. I am relatively new to investing so I heard what he had to say. He put $115,000 in a mid level investment account. He had me max out my Roth IRAs. Then he had me signed up for Term 80 Life Insurance and Whole Life Insurance. The annual premium for the Term 80 is $328. However the…

Reddit Personal Finance 1.1k 2025-01-09

LPT: IOS 18.1 now includes native call recording. Use it to your advantage.

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LPT: IOS 18.1 now includes native call recording. Use it to your advantage. If you haven’t updated your iPhone yet, now is the time. IOS 18.1 now includes native call recording. To record a call, press the little “record” button in the upper left hand corner of your phone when making a call. For legal reasons, your iPhone will play “recording in progress” over the call to warn both users the call is being recorded. Peo…

Life Pro Tips 354 2024-12-17

AI is booming on the App Store, and developers are taking advantage of it

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AI is booming on the App Store, and developers are taking advantage of it This meat-handed mess was generated using DaVinci AI with the prompt “a photorealistic person looking at their phone with a disgusted expression.” | Image: DaVinci AI / The VergeMany high-ranking AI apps feel like an attempted cash grab, and it’s not easy to spot the trash from the treasure. Read the full story at The Verge.

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LPT: Take full advantage of your phone’s text replacement feature!

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LPT: Take full advantage of your phone’s text replacement feature! Most phone operating systems allow for you to create custom text replacement shortcuts. Despite this, I rarely see people make full usage of this feature. Here are some of the best uses I’ve found for it: Put in corrections for your most common typos so that they can be corrected as you type. For example, I have abd -> and, thr -> the, and tou …

Life Pro Tips 1.2k 2024-12-01

Reverse roll-in IRA to 401k to take advantage of backdoor Roth?

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Reverse roll-in IRA to 401k to take advantage of backdoor Roth? HHI above any IRA (with 401k) or Roth IRA limit. $900K in rollover IRA invested in zero-fee Fidelity funds. I have an option to reverse roll-in this balance to a new 401k. Doing so would allow me to take advantage of Roth backdoor with after-tax IRA contributions for both me and my wife while minimizing tax impact (would max both yearly and have…

Reddit Personal Finance 727 2024-11-03

I took advantage of your advice

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I took advantage of your advice I like everything except the lips, I think they are too small, but I should probably blame my genetics here lol Regarding eyebrows, my natural eyebrows are very thin and not thick, unfortunately, so I had to draw them with shadows. I saw someone else writing about blush looking unnatural, I want to say that it shouldn’t look natural submitt…

Reddit Makeup Addiction 513 2024-11-03

Elon Musk, Who Wants To Stop People ‘Taking Advantage Of Government,’ Had $830,000 In Federal Loans Forgiven

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Elon Musk, Who Wants To Stop People ‘Taking Advantage Of Government,’ Had $830,000 In Federal Loans Forgiven Former President and current presidential candidate Donald Trump has promised that, if elected, he would let Tesla CEO and one of America’s leading eugenicists Elon Musk loose on the federal budget. Musk has promised “temporary hardship” for Americans as he cuts $2 trillion in federal spending, a move he says is… Read more…

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LPT If you want a smarter kid, teach your child to read as early as possible and instill in them a love for books. Because as soon as they can read, they can teach themselves. And that will be a life-long advantage over their peers who don’t have that same ability.

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LPT If you want a smarter kid, teach your child to read as early as possible and instill in them a love for books. Because as soon as they can read, they can teach themselves. And that will be a life-long advantage over their peers who don’t have that same ability. submitted by /u/Beckyeffect

Life Pro Tips 710 2024-07-26

Once you have money if you have a mindset that certain things don’t cost that much is that the advantage you have or is that how you lose money quickly?

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Once you have money if you have a mindset that certain things don’t cost that much is that the advantage you have or is that how you lose money quickly? Usually I see this with clothes, food, drinking, toys, etc. Like some of my friends just drop $200 at the bar like its nothing and to me thats a waste of money no matter how much I make. Some of it is probably personal preference but do you know what i mean? I see some people just drop $500 on clothes like its nothing. I just can’t have that ty…

Reddit Personal Finance 1.2k 2024-07-21

I Suspect Financial Advisor is Taking Advantage of my Parents

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I Suspect Financial Advisor is Taking Advantage of my Parents I apologize if this isn’t the best subreddit but I couldn’t find a good fit. Background: My parents are retired in their early 70’s and have been very frugal and saved their entire life. My father retired with a pension and the pension and social security more than meets their financial needs. They have also saved over $4 million dollars in thei…

Reddit Personal Finance 1.2k 2024-07-17

When refinancing a mortgage to take advantage of a new interest rate, do they take into account the current appraisal of your home?

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When refinancing a mortgage to take advantage of a new interest rate, do they take into account the current appraisal of your home? If you get into a 400k house at 7%, and the interest rate goes down but the house prices go up to accommodate, when you get refinanced, is it just a wash at that point or do they take current house prices into account when refinancing? submitted by /u/Unfiltered4you

Reddit Personal Finance 698 2024-07-09

LPT Take advantage of multiple offers to save huge on tires

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LPT Take advantage of multiple offers to save huge on tires Considering how expensive a new set of tires are: a set of four, mounting and balancing them, and maybe an alignment, and maybe even delivery fees, you could very easily approach $1000. Combine multiple offers from multiple sources to save the most. Combining manufacture rebates, credit/debit account discounts, and taking it to a used tire sho…

Life Pro Tips 1.2k 2024-06-26