JasperFrank
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"Romper, bomper, stomper boo. Tell me, tell me, tell me, do. Magic Mirror, tell me today, did all my friends have fun at play?" 
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Engineer42
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"Romper, bomper, stomper boo. Tell me, tell me, tell me, do. Magic Mirror, tell me today, did all my friends have fun at play?"
lol. Romper Room. “I see Janey, and Billy, and…….
I don't even have a debit card. My paycheck goes into that account and I pay all of my bills through it. I have automatic transfer from my savings if I mess up and do an overdraft.I use a debit card, never a credit card. I have gotten 2% cash back for years now. Free money. That's
I also check my account several times per week.
One morning I checked and Amazon had done a balance query on my account. There was no way they should have had that card number, as I only used it for an ATM card. At the time I was truck shopping, so had a good chunk of cash in my savings account. As soon as my CU opened I was on the phone having the card shut off and haven't had one since.
I've had my CC scammed, and it was a simple matter of calling to get it taken care of. (There's one town I travel through on my way to my mother's house with 3 gas stations; for some reason, I've had problems with every one of those.) If somebody wipes out my checking account I will have checks bouncing and overdraft fees. Even though I would get it straightened out, I don't care to take that chance.
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So funny to me was my in-laws bought their home new 1932. FIL enlisted in Army WWII, landed at Normandy beach & walked to Berlin staying in Germany 2 years until 1947. Here, wife's Mom bought US savings bonds. They both passed 10 years ago & wife & I cleaned out their home. In China cabinet I found a stack of bonds, so we go to bank. Wife thought, oh well...$25, $50...etc...I'll get a few $hundred.
At the bank the teller said they pay interest, compounded...so it was quite a lot.
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I recall some kid's mom on our block tried to get us to watch that. We were more Captain Kangaroo types."Romper, bomper, stomper boo. Tell me, tell me, tell me, do. Magic Mirror, tell me today, did all my friends have fun at play?"
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Captain in the morning and Mayor Art in the afternoon…
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How much, inquiring minds want to know....
Oh, I just read how they matured in 1981 or so and have not increased in value since.
MossRoad
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My mother in-law used to buy US savings bonds with every paycheck when she was UAW worker at the AM General plant.
She is very good about cashing them in as soon as they hit the maturity date. They stop earning interest on that date and no longer work for you. At one point she had close to 500 of them.
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Had to look up Mayor Art.
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From some other source...How much, inquiring minds want to know....
Oh, I just read how they matured in 1981 or so and have not increased in value since.
All U.S. savings bonds have a final maturity date when they stop earning interest. Investors often lose track of this date because the U.S. Treasury Department has extended the original maturity of some bonds up to 30 years. The length of time savings bonds earn interest depends on the bond series and the issue date. It's important to remember that if you keep savings bonds past final maturity, your money stops working for you.
