where can I buy U.S. Savings bonds? and Is there a minimum quantity to buy?

Answer 1

http:www.treasurydirect.com and you may also be able to order them at your local bank.
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Answer 2

buy them at your bank. The minimun is $25 for a $50 bond. EE bonds sell at 1/2 face value. They currently pay 3.7% which is tax deferred until they are cashed in. You can also purchase them directly from the U S Treasury.

Note: the bonds must be held 5 years without suffering a 3 month earnings penalty.

Answer 3

There is a lot of misinformation in the answers here to your question. You cannot buy a Savings Bond at the post office and EE bonds don't double in value in seven years.

Moreover, if you had made equal monthly investments in Series I Savings Bonds and the stock market (Vanguard 500 Index fund) since I bonds were introduced in 1998, your I bond investment would be worth more right now. Moreover, the stock investment would have been worth less than what you paid for it for two years. There's more on this here:

http://www.savings-bond-advisor.com/i-bonds-versus-the-stock-market/

For buying Savings Bonds you have two choices - you can electronic bonds by setting up an online account at http://www.treasurydirect.gov/ or in most states you can buy paper Savings Bonds at most banks.

At TreasuryDirect the minimum investment is $25. With paper bonds the minimum investment is $25 for Series EE and $50 for Series I.

A good reference for more inforamation on the process of buying Savings Bonds is here:

http://www.savings-bond-advisor.com/buying-us-savings-bonds/

Answer 4

At your neighbor hood bank. But think twice !!

Getting high yield savings account / CD from a credit union is a better way to go AND you can still get at the money if you need to. If you are thinking of giving these as gifts...why not try one of the numerous companies out there that offer you to buy their stock direct from them. You will stand a chance of making ALOT more money on the money you invest. : )

The government may be good at some things but making YOU money is NOT one of them... Don't let them manage YOUR money when you could be doing it yourself! Admit it !! You can't do any worse than they would! : )

Answer 5

I get them at my bank. As far as a minimum, I believe a $25.00 investment is the minimum. From the $25 you will recieve $50 at the time of maturity which is 7 years from the date of purchase.

Answer 6

the answers above are correct but I beleive you can still get them at the post office. ITs been a while since I have done that but that was once an option. I think they started to carry them when they started to carry war bonds back in the days of world war II.