{"id":11046,"date":"2019-06-03T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11046"},"modified":"2019-06-01T11:39:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T16:39:08","slug":"thanks-grandma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/thanks-grandma\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks, Grandma"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today is the 109th anniversary of Grandma Lyons’ birth. For a period of years, she gave her grandchildren savings bonds with their birthday gifts.\u00a0Now, 30 years later, they’re starting to be cashed in. I was able to do it at the very bank they were made at.<\/p>\n

The Treasury Department stopped selling paper bonds at the end of 2011<\/a>. The current interest rate is absolutely horrid (that, of course, has been true of financial institutions for years). It makes more sense to contribute to a 529 college savings plan<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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