u/CarlG314

I did not see any specific requirements on the US Mobile website regarding eligibility for the discounted phones, are they available only to new customers?

I am currently a T-Mobile customer, with one year left on our family phone payments. I have been thinking about paying off our phones early, getting them unlocked, and switching to US Mobile.

But we do not yet want to upgrade our phones, so if I switch to US Mobile this year, could I take advantage of their discounted phones next year or the year after?

It appears that LoseIt does not have the ability to add up the weight of the raw ingredients for a recipe.

I recognize that the ingredient weight won't be the final weight for recipes that are cooked, but it does provide at least a useful starting point.

And for recipes that are not cooked, such as salad dressing, it would be helpful if the app would tell you the raw weight to avoid having to measure the container empty and full weight to do the calculation manually.

OK, so I have an unusual question, and I'm sure the answer will be "it varies", but I'm curious if Costa Rica houses have a reasonably standard ceiling height.

I'm considering retiring to Costa Rica in the next several years, and we would probably buy a house near the coast in the Guanacaste area. We are also looking into buying a new functional trainer, either a Rep or a Rogue. Both have 80" heights available, but as I'm 6', I would much prefer the next height up for each (90" for Rogue, and 93" for Rep).

But I don't want to spend thousands purchasing equipment intended to last for life, then ship it to Costa Rica only to find that it's too tall for most homes.

Is there such a thing as a standard ceiling height there? Thinking of bedrooms, studies, etc, or even a garage I could air-condition, rather than putting them in the living room!

Cheers, Carl.

I added my kids' 529 accounts at Colorado College Invest w/o issue, but the 2FA is prompting me for text confirmation virtually daily.

I just learned that the accounts have a read-only "aggregator" access that obviates the need for 2FA, with a slightly different URL and different login credentials.

Is there a way to update the URL for an existing account, or to add a sync account by URL? When I simply provided the aggregator credentials on the existing 529 account, it would not work, and there is seemingly no way to add a connection by the aggregator URL.

And adding an account manually appears to be just that - a manual account, manually updated, that is not synced to the financial institution.

Cheers, Carl.

Is there a way to offset the Zillow value of our residence by the anticipated closing costs upon a sale? I manually created a debit transaction under real estate for 7% of the current Zillow value (6% realtor, 1% misc), and figured I would just update it periodically as the value changes, but this transaction did not reduce the house's equity value.

And similarly, is there a way to deduct the anticipated federal & state capital gains tax from the equity, either by entering a specific liability I can periodically modify, or by creating a liability as a percentage of equity over my basis (which I can then input)?

Note that the house is not presently listed for sale; I'm just trying to more accurately capture my net worth with known major offsets. And since these are not current debts, I don't really want to create a separate misc liabilities, but would resort to that if necessary.

Workarounds welcome, although since most of us are homeowners, this could be a feature others would find useful to add to Monarch Money.

ADDENDUM - clearly my "kludge" of creating a debit under real estate was a bad way to do it, as it sent my monthly budget skyrocketing by including both entries as current spending.

I have had overall positive experiences with the Google Health Coach. It's good at providing actionable suggestions to the data it has (nutrition, calorie intake, exercise, sleep, etc). And when I uploaded some medical records, its feedback on my sleep study was virtually identical to the medical advice I received at the time.

But one thing is infuriating - it seems to have selective amnesia between sessions. On one hand, it will zero in on some relatively trivial fact (e.g. I mentioned a week ago that I skipped planks as I had hurt my left hand, and for the next week it was urging me to take it easy, talked about "recovery strength training", and even titled my workouts "recovery").

But when I ask it to pull up a workout it created a day earlier, it wasn't the same one. And despite repeated reminders, it treats a 2-minute "exercise snack" as one of my four weekly workouts. Or I advise one day that the next day will be lower body, and the next day it's talking about my scheduled rest day. And don't get me started on its propensity to praise everything I do, despite constant prompts to be more blunt.

Lots of promise, as long as you don't mind reinventing the wheel each time you interact with the Coach.

I am traveling, and a place I am staying basically has dumbbells and an adjustable bench.

For the past 2 days, I swapped out my normal exercises for comparable ones that just use dumbbells.

Now, I'm wondering if I can automatically save the dumbbell workouts from my history to an existing or new routine.

Or do I have to recreate each day's workouts from scratch?

Is there a way to just export the most recent workout? I like to log them into the new Google Health app, but the only data export option I see is from the More tab, and does a full week of exercises.

My current workflow is to export to a spreadsheet, delete the unneeded dates, widen the columns so the text is all visible, export to PDF, then upload to Google Health.

That's a rather cumbersome process on an Android phone.