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reigns over the United Kingdom. It can also mean to dominate or control, such as a winning by team “reigning supreme” in the NFL.

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A few years ago, I received a fun letter from a reader who developed a hobby of look® ing for money in gutters, parking lots, streets, sidewalks and other public places. And he keeps by Mary Hunt a running tab. He included a copy of his “free* The name for the shape of a Pringles potato chip is “hyperbolic paraboloid.” money journal” from the previous year. Recently, he sent an update that shows * In 1862, the King of Siam offered he is now averaging nearly $50 a month. Not Abraham Lincoln many elephants on bad! But I couldn’t help but wonder how his paythe grounds that a “country as great as off might climb if he knew about other places that the United States should not be without harbor free money. elephants.” President Lincoln politely declined. JEWELRY BOX Not long ago, I toured my jewelry box. * The stage before frostbite is called -What a hoot! I found one gold chain now in wait for it -- frostnip. pieces, a bracelet and several orphaned earrings -- all of it gold from the ‘80s that I don’t wear any* Boeing uses potatoes to test their more. Something tells me you might find somein-flight Wi-Fi, as they reflect and absorb the signals in a fashion similar to thing similar if you go through your drawers and humans. The process is called Synthetic old jewelry boxes. Provided what you have is at Personnel Using Dialectic Substitution, least 10-karat gold (but not gold-plated), it’s like or SPUDS. cash -- free money. Go in person to three jewelry stores or local coin shops to see what they’ll pay * The first roller coaster was used to you for it, and then go with the highest bid. Never transport coal down a hill. After people mail your junk gold to a “gold dealer.” found that it could reach speeds up to 50 mph, tourists started asking to ride on it VENDING MACHINES for a few cents. Start paying attention to vending machine coin return compartments. Most machines have * A flower that smells like chocolate? a clear plastic coin return, which makes it easy Yep, but you’ll have to limit your enjoyto see what’s in there. And winter is the best time ment of this dark-red Mexican native to sniffing, as the “cosmos atrosanguineus,” to clean up coins, as people are often wearing or “chocolate cosmos,” isn’t edible. gloves and don’t feel the coins they leave behind. Because there is no way to find that unfor* In 2014, a missing woman on vacatunate person, it’s finders keepers -- free money. tion in Iceland was found when it was The same goes for ATMs. discovered that she was in the search party looking for herself! JUNK DRAWER If your home is like 99% of all the homes * Donkey Kong got his curious moniker on earth, you have at least one junk drawer. Go because his creator, Shigeru Miyamoto, on a gift-card hunt. It’s easy to call the number believed “donkey” meant “stupid” in Engon the back of the card to find out how much lish and wanted to convey the impression value remains. That’s free money being held ADVERTISING PROOF that the character was a “stupid ape.” hostage in plastic. Use5:00 it, or you may lose it. *** Final Changes DUE: p.m.. ThoughtPlease for the Day:carefully. “By walking review Doubleon check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours the right path, you create a Tidbits goldenrepresentative fate MATURED BONDS Contact your immediately with changes or corrections. for yourself andOffice: you also become a silver 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com Fax:billion 760-320-1630 More than $27 worth of U.S. savlining for the others!” ings bonds have matured and are sitting un-- Mehmet Murat ildan claimed by their owners as of December 2020, reports the U.S. Treasury. The department’s (c) 2021 King Features Synd., Inc. “Treasury hunt” search engine at https://www. •1/8th page • Full Color • -21% Discount (Publisher’s Option) TreasuryDirect.gov lets you use your Social December 6, 2020 Vol. 16 - No. 50 Security number to search for matured bonds.

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PENSION FUNDS Is it possible that you or someone in your family worked for a company that had a pension plan and then terminated it because the company went bankrupt or was bought out by another company? You or that loved one, even if now deceased, may be eligible to receive benefits from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, which is an agency of the U.S. government. The corporation is currently holding about $400 million in unclaimed benefits for more than 80,000 people. That averages nearly $5,000 per person. To see if you might have anything coming your way, you can perform a search at “Finding a Lost Pension” on the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation site. UNCLAIMED ASSETS You or someone in your family may be missing money because you lost track of a refund, rebate, security deposit, insurance dividend or proceeds from a class action suit. It happens. To search online, check out this U.S. government site as well as https://www.unclaimed. org (scroll down to find the U.S. map, and then click on individual states to go to that state’s unclaimed property webpage) and https://www. missingmoney.com. You should not have to pay upfront fees to reclaim assets, so should you click on an ad that requires payment, don’t let that tempt you. You can do this search on your own without paying others for doing the same thing. TREASURE HUNTING Now just might be a good time to dust off that metal detector you got for your birthday however many years ago. Ha! If you were not that fortunate, don’t worry. For under $75, you can pick up a decent metal detector. Metal detecting is a fun hobby where the more you participate, the luckier you’ll get. Want to get serious about it? Join a club. Find other enthusiasts. And make sure you keep a journal of your successes. Check out the Kellyco detectors website. There you’ll find a treasure trove of community and detecting how-tos, where to hunt, forums and just plain free-money fun. * * * This column will answer questions of general interest, but letters cannot be answered individually. Mary Hunt is the founder of EverydayCheapskate. com, a frugal living blog, and the author of the book “Debt-Proof Living.” COPYRIGHT 2021 CREATORS.COM

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There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who just want to know the time and those who want to take the clock apart to see how it works. I’m sure most of us fall into the first category. I sure do. But of course, there are always those who need to disassemble that clock, examine it and then try to put it back together. And when it comes to Social Security retirement benefits, there also are two kinds of people: those who just want to know what their benefit is going to be and those who want to know exactly how the government comes up with their retirement benefit calculation. But as I think about it, there is probably a third category of Social Security retirement benefit calculators. It is those people who want a general idea of how their benefit will be figured. They just don’t need all the nitty-gritty details. I think most seniors fall into that category. For years now, I’ve been providing a relatively simple explanation for those folks. In a nutshell, a Social Security retirement benefit is a percentage of your average monthly income using your highest 35 years of inflation-adjusted earnings. So, when you file for retirement benefits, the Social Security Administration will look at your earnings history and pull out your highest 35 years. They don’t have to be consecutive. If you don’t have 35 years of earnings, the SSA must plug in an annual salary of “zero” for every year you did not work, until the 35-year base is reached.

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However, before they add up those “high bean counters and clockmakers) who tell me that 35,” they index each year of past earnings for in- they are confused because the benefit estimate flation. And this is where the formula starts to get they are getting from the SSA now (at age 66, let’s messy. That’s because there is a different adjust- say) is not much more than the estimate they got ment factor for each year of earnings, AND each back at age 62. Their current benefit estimate inyear’s adjustment factor is different based on your cludes the COLA increases but either little or no bumpADVERTISING for their post-62 earnings. The reason why is year of birth. PROOF that lack of inflation indexing after age 60. Here is a quick example. If you were born in Final Changes DUE: Mon., Mar. 8, 20215:00 p.m.. Please review carefully. 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