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Re:TreeCard: The wooden debit card that plants trees by war1025 on Sunday January 03, 2021 @12:57PM (#25623462)
The amount of interest a savings account is going to accrue in that time is negligible to the point of being worthless.
Re:TreeCard: The wooden debit card that plants trees by xwdv on Sunday January 03, 2021 @02:00PM (#25624062)
Nope. Invest the money into an S&P 500 ETF and you’ll probably gain 10% profit by the time you have put down your last payment.
Re:TreeCard: The wooden debit card that plants trees by throwaway201103 on Sunday January 03, 2021 @02:38PM (#25624449)
The S&P return is not always and certainly not guaranteed to be 10% or even positve. Some months/years it is negative. It's an exceedingly bad idea to keep cash that you will need in the short term (< 5 years) invested in equities.
Re:TreeCard: The wooden debit card that plants trees by xwdv on Sunday January 03, 2021 @07:38PM (#25626748)
If you sell OTM covered calls of about 10 or 8 delta against the shares you own and keep rolling them after sufficient theta decay you can conservatively add 1% ROI each month on top of whatever appreciation your shares get. So yea you have a good chance of getting 10% ROI per year consistently this way unless S&P is down more than 2% for the year.

Unfortunately so many people use this strategy these days that the bids are lower than what they used to be though.