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[lesbiassparrow]

1. I foresee that in every episode of The Mentalist people will foolishly doubt Simon Baker's word only for it to turn out that he spoke TRUTH. I can live with this.

2. I am dealing with the banking crisis by planning on never opening those reports on my meagre retirement savings. And, no, I will not chucking more money into those accounts to make up what has been wiped out as several people on the TV suggested I should: YOU ONLY FOOL ME ONCE, YOU BASTARDS, IT'S ALL GOING IN MY MATTRESS FROM NOW ON.

3. Also, I am also astonished by the fact that most of the people on my telly offering me sage advice on how to deal with all of this are the very people who appear to have been employed by the very industry which managed to plunge us all into this mess with gay abandon. You know what? If I have to listen to you give me advice which comes too late, I want to see a CV: if it says 'bought crappy investments and didn't care' on it, I reserve the right to decide to invest in my mattress (see above).

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[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

At this point I am leaving it where it is - god knows what state it is in now and I have no idea of what to invest in anyway because it seems like even respectable things are actually a house of cards.

I don't retire for some time either, but how on earth do I know that we won't be back in this state when I do retire? People keep going on about 'necessary corrections' that markets have from time to time, so I guess they see this like the seasons? MATTRESS, I TELL YOU, THAT WAY AT LEAST I KNOW WHERE IT IS.

[lovinlorne.livejournal.com]

I am too. The majority of my 401k is Target Corp. stock, and while it has gone down over the past year and a half, it's still doing better than most.

I have to figure that Target is one company who should come through this in fairly good shape. I hope. My husbands job, not so much, but our fingers are crossed.

It's a scary time to be depending on the Retail Gods, that's for sure.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Target should be fine; that and Costco are going to be the shops of choice for many people from now on.

I am horrified to realize that I don't know where most of my money is invested in (beyond that it was in one of those ethical investment things, though I remember they had some odd ideas of what ethical investments were); I would check but it would be too depressing right at the moment.