Nothing quite like losing 15% of your retirement fund in less than two months. So happy I pay a bunch of experts to manage my money! Something tells me I would have been better off investing my money in hookers. Sure it uses my long-term asset for a short-term investment with no long-term payoff... and comes with some really heavy risk factors... but at least I would be stimulating the local economy.
And my penis.
What's odd is that my retirement plan is fairly low-risk. I can't imagine how much I would have lost were I still in the high-risk/high-yield program I was in just five years ago.
And don't think I'm not grateful that I at least have something left in my retirement account. There are many, many people out there who are not so lucky. Stupid economy.
So, yeah, I'm a little worried about my retirement.
But that's quite a ways away. And, as of today, is even further away than it was last month.
The more immediate concern is my upcoming vacation. I haven't worked out all the details yet, but if the US dollar gets much worse, my travels are going to take a turn for the worse...
On the other hand, I would be meeting new and interesting people.
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I lost a bunch in my 401k too! How is it that you can lose so much in a few days, but it takes months and months to build it back up?
Sometimes new avenues to keep the Washingtons arriving in greater numbers could be fun. Lil Dave doesn’t look happy, though.
Surely you must know enough people across the world to blag a spare bed or sofa, rather than staying in hotels? 🙂
Not this time, I’m afraid. 🙁
That sucks. Hopefully it does not come to that.
If it takes a handjob to get bus fare I shudder to think what you’re doing for that transatlantic airfare….
Perhaps I should work on moving my Dave Number into two digits. I don’t want to catch anything 🙂
You’d be making so many friends, too!
Do you supply your own lube?
I can’t afford bus fare and you think I’ll be providing free lube? I dunno… maybe I could rub my hands in oil spots in the street…
You look like Charlie Sheen in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
A few years ago one of my retirement accounts dipped low enough that the company managing the account felt they had to charge me a fee for looking after it. They refunded the fee, but only after I got on the phone and politely pointed out that I’d never had to pay a fee before and that the only reason they were charging me now was they’d done such a poor job managing my money that my account had lost enough value that I’d fallen below some sort of let’s-charge-this-guy threshold.