Haven't you heard? The sky is falling!!
Did you ever wonder why the sky is falling NOW? Why not back in April? Why not this December? Why now? What happened?
What percent of homes were foreclosed on in an average year? No, I do not currently have any stocks, but I did and I saw the value of them drop considerably - as Sam Walton put it at that time - ON PAPER! You do not really lose it until you sell. And when I did end up selling my stocks to pay medical bills, I sold every share for a lot more than I paid for it in the first place. I held on to it and gained, not lost. The people who will actually lose right now are the faint-hearted who sell because the price dropped..
I changed the world today... packed up the size 3, moved the size 4's from one dresser to the other and put size 5 in. (Ds4x2 don't wear the same size and are almost 5.)
gillumhouse said:
Did you ever wonder why the sky is falling NOW? Why not back in April? Why not this December? Why now? What happened?
What happened is that all these banks with all their foreclosed loans went and claimed their mortgage insurance at the same time, driving AIG under.
It's a domino effect and the dominos have already started falling...
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YellowSocks said:
I changed the world today... packed up the size 3, moved the size 4's from one dresser to the other and put size 5 in. (Ds4x2 don't wear the same size and are almost 5.)
I changed the world today, too. I helped my kids go thru their toys/clothes/books/STUFF to give it to Goodwill. It was so nice to be able to take bags of things out of their rooms for donation. Hopefully, in my ideological world, I helped the kids understand that it isn't what you have that makes you a good person, it's what you do with it.
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There is one more rule I insisted upon with my kids. Unless you would be willing to be seen wearing/playing with the item, you do not give it. If you would not want it, no one else would either and it goes in the trash.
DH's wife had died and left him with 5 kids. He had been off work for several months trying to find out what was wrond with him (a person with high BP does not eat salt but no one told him that) and the church they had been attending had been sending over a casserole on Friday night since she died. That was very nice BUT without asking anything, they brought over a ton of groceries and wrapped packages for the kids at Christmas - nice right? Wrong! I had just bought a ton of groceries (we were dating) and had no room for more, he had income protection insurance so did not miss a check (something I did not know until we were married and here I was kicking in my meager earnings to supplement the $40 he gave me for groceries every week - not enough even in 1974!). The worst of it was the toys, when unwrapped, were dinged up crap that should have been thrown away. The good thing about the whole experience was that I could now remind the kids of how they felt that day. If you would not want it, you do not give it.
Sorry. Off soapbox. I know you would only give what was nice enough to receive.
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