Here’s a blast from the past. I think I was reading an article about how savings bonds stop earning interest after 30 years, and so I asked my mom if she bought any bonds when I was born. I don’t know why, I figured that’s just what people did back then. It turned out she did, and the earliest bonds happen to stop earning interest next month. She dug them out of storage, and sent me a scan of them:
She bought an EE savings bond with a face value of $ 100 for the purchase price of $…
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