Disadvantage to falling stock prices is your 401k looks smaller. It is a deeply uncomfortable feeling. The advantage to falling stock prices is that your monthly contributions buy more shares so that when prices go back up, your funds increase all the more. Depending on how close to retiring a person is, there are differing strategies for dealing. I'm at least twenty years out, so I'm hanging on to the hope that the market doesn't tank so badly that it utterly ceases to exist, and that when it is time for me to retire I will be able to time my cash-out on an upswing. More strategy than that, I do not have.
I'm a single undead gal trying to make it in the big city. I have to start somewhere and they're evil here. They don't judge. They've got necro-tempered glass. No burning up. A great medical plan, and who needs dental more than us?
Harmony ,'Conviction (1)'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
WindSparrow - Nov 12, 2016 12:11:58 pm PST #1942 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Jesse - Nov 12, 2016 12:21:01 pm PST #1943 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Emergency question: I want to make raisin bread. The dough is currently rising, but I forgot to put the raisins in! Should I shove them in now, in the middle of the rise, or just do it after?
Jesse - Nov 12, 2016 12:34:58 pm PST #1944 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OK, I kind of split the difference and shoved them in a little without deflating the whole thing.
Jessica - Nov 12, 2016 12:57:52 pm PST #1945 of 30002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
i'm making an apple pie. Mostly because my daughter wanted to make a pie and we had a LOT of apples, but now I feel kind of like this.
Jesse - Nov 12, 2016 12:59:29 pm PST #1946 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It me.
shrift - Nov 12, 2016 1:08:08 pm PST #1947 of 30002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Shrift, I would be interested in fannish organizing, if there's a list or something that you could point me towards, please.
I will send you an invite.
Laura - Nov 12, 2016 2:13:58 pm PST #1948 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
Dad~ma in abundance, SailAweigh!
Jesse - Nov 12, 2016 2:19:03 pm PST #1949 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Best thoughts for your dad, Sail!
WindSparrow - Nov 12, 2016 2:26:07 pm PST #1950 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Love for all your family, Sail, and ~ma for your dad.
SailAweigh - Nov 12, 2016 2:45:58 pm PST #1951 of 30002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Thanks, everyone. He's 93 years old, he's winding down like a clock who's spring has lost all it's tension and the gears are worn smooth. I don't know that anything going on right now is life-threatening, just, he's fading away, things don't work quite right anymore and there isn't really a fix for any of it. I think everything at this point will just be palliative. Or, he could stick around a couple more years being the crotchety old coot he is. But it would have to be in a nursing home, because it's just becoming too much for my brother to deal with.