6 of one, half dozen of the other.

Yesterday, I put in motion on moving my money from Fidelity to Vanguard. I had to call Fidelity to do that, which, of course, means they try to sales pitch you out of it.

Why? I am consolidating accounts to make it easier for me to manage.

Lucky me, I have more consolidation to go through. I should be done by the end of the year is my guess. I move slow. Do one account at a time, to make sure all the bugs are worked out. Then move on to the next.

I look at my financial madness as sort of like living in our house forever. We accumulate a lot of stuff, and that stuff is put into out of the way places, marked as "to be dealt with later." Twenty years later, you look at that collection of 600 flower pots, and go, "Why?"