guachi01

guachi01 t1_j6lcfyi wrote

T-bills have regular auction times (barring holidays)

4/8/13/17/26-week T-bills are auctioned every week. The announcement date for 4/8/17-week is usually Tuesday and Thursday for 13/26-week. The auction date for 17-week is Wednesday, Thursday for 4/8-week, and Monday for 13/26-week. The settlement date is a week after the announcement date (usually).

Answer to your questions:

  1. Have the money ready on the announcement date.

  2. On the announcement date. (I think it's easier to do it on the announcement date)

  3. Use auto-roll if you want to keep rebuying that specific term length.

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guachi01 t1_iybnvi2 wrote

I'd budget 3-4% of a homes non-land cost for maintenance. You can find the value of land and the improvements (i.e., the home) online. It should be public record.

If the home has lots of land or expensive trees/plants/flowers you can add more to maintain them.

Best thing I ever did was buy a small house I liked and dump money into it to make it the way I wanted. I recently sold it but, man, did I love that house. The size and low price meant I could keep putting money into it to make it just the way I wanted. Didn't quite get there as the fence still needed repairing and wood prices soared so much during COVID I skipped that part.

But I loved everything else I did. And there's no way an apartment would ever look like what I did with the house.

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guachi01 t1_iuc1rpw wrote

The way people in movies from the 30s and 40s talk. Almost no one talks like that anymore. It's distinctive and changes in the 50s.

The change to widescreen movies.

B-movies and serials. Those stopped as soon as TV took off and the 60 minute B-movie was replaced by TV.

Every woman in an action-type movie being a reporter. It's not a mistake that Lois Lane was a reporter being modeled on Torchy Blane (a great series of B-movies).

CGI movies adding camera shots that would be impossible otherwise. See many action scenes in movies from the '80s or '90s.

The steadicam enabling camerawork while moving. First used in 1976 in several films - think Rocky running up a flight of stairs. Those shots were previously impossible.

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