how close are you to retirement? If I were going to retire within 5 years, I might have put all my holdings in cash long before now. Given my time horizon, I should be fine leaving everything where it is and waiting for the markets to come back in 2-3 years.
12 years, if all goes as planned. (bwahahaha) Last time a crash loomed, I did just that: left it alone, bought some stuff when it got cheap, and waited. My fear this time is a nebulous fear that it won't come back, or that I'll be wiped out so far I won't be able to recover.
Sheesh, I sound like I actually have a lot of money to worry about! Maybe I should just relax.
Timing the market is a fool's game.
At our big silent auction we have a dessert auction. I won a "Fruit of the Forest" pie. Had no clue what it was until we broke into it today. It is a combo of rhubarb, apple, and strawberry. At least that is what I've identified so far. It is also NOM!!!
yep, Ginger's right.
Zenkitty, not to add to your worries, but in the short term we will have bigger things to worry about than the stock market if this shit doesn't get handled.
Bah, all the CI fruit pie recipes other than apples (which I guess bring their own pectin) use highly starchy thickeners. I can stick with apple/pear.
However I'm looking at the one I made for the office and wondering what they've done to deserve it recently.
I am thinking I should find out where John Boehner lives - I'm guessing it's some gated community in the deep suburbs - and go stand in front of his house with torches and pitchforks. You're with me, right, Teppy?
I feel like it's Butler County somewhere. Maybe West Chester? Possibly we could run him down at IKEA.
I think I would do a lattice on top of blueberry pie. Which I have never made, myself.
I'm not sure about this. Blueberry's an oozy, leaky mess with a full crust, IME. Apple is my favourite fruit pie. It's amazing what using different apples can do to the flavour and texture.
In truth, I am a cream pie person. Cocunut cream, lemon meringue, key lime. If only my M-f meringues didn't weep.
I spent the weekend with the family for T-giving. You know how some families band together in a crisis? Yeah, my family is not one of those. It was a minor plumbing crisis, but man, I wanted to punch people in the face a lot. I also had a headache most of the weekend, but the turkey was good.
Bah, all the CI fruit pie recipes other than apples (which I guess bring their own pectin) use highly starchy thickeners.
One CI recipe I read for blueberry grated an apple into some of the blueberries and pre-cooked them, b/c apples are high in pectin.
