Comments on: All that Glitters http://smugpuppies.com/2009/02/18/1392/ You can't have everything. Where would you put it? Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:11:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Becca http://smugpuppies.com/2009/02/18/1392/comment-page-1/#comment-3322 Becca Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:39:24 +0000 http://smugpuppies.com/?p=1392#comment-3322 We have watched our retirement portfolio go higher and lower like a rollercoaster this last year. I wish I could think that we are going to get off of it sometime soon, but I have serious doubts. If there is an upside to this financial mess, we are actually thinking about buying a house next year. We are situated right for the first time to get in on the downside of the housing market and actually get something that we can afford. We are waiting until Spring 2010 to be sure that the housing market bottoms out some more then get in. We have almost zero debt so we are socking away all that we can. I really would like to have something we can actually call ours. We have watched our retirement portfolio go higher and lower like a rollercoaster this last year. I wish I could think that we are going to get off of it sometime soon, but I have serious doubts.

If there is an upside to this financial mess, we are actually thinking about buying a house next year. We are situated right for the first time to get in on the downside of the housing market and actually get something that we can afford. We are waiting until Spring 2010 to be sure that the housing market bottoms out some more then get in. We have almost zero debt so we are socking away all that we can. I really would like to have something we can actually call ours.

]]> By: John the Scientist http://smugpuppies.com/2009/02/18/1392/comment-page-1/#comment-3318 John the Scientist Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:00:14 +0000 http://smugpuppies.com/?p=1392#comment-3318 Yahoo Finance didn't give me the dividends in the spreadsheet, and I'm not going to add them up by hand, the the average looked to be bit more than $1.50 per year per share over that time period. At 29 shares, if you didn't re-invest, you'd wind up with an extra $387. It would be closer to $500 if you re-invested, so at least you would not have lost money if you had to sell right now. But the data on gold looks interesting. I don't know anyhting about the dynamics of precious metal markets, I'm going to have to look into it. Yahoo Finance didn’t give me the dividends in the spreadsheet, and I’m not going to add them up by hand, the the average looked to be bit more than $1.50 per year per share over that time period.

At 29 shares, if you didn’t re-invest, you’d wind up with an extra $387. It would be closer to $500 if you re-invested, so at least you would not have lost money if you had to sell right now.

But the data on gold looks interesting. I don’t know anyhting about the dynamics of precious metal markets, I’m going to have to look into it.

]]> By: John the Scientist http://smugpuppies.com/2009/02/18/1392/comment-page-1/#comment-3317 John the Scientist Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:49:33 +0000 http://smugpuppies.com/?p=1392#comment-3317 Well, if you'd have bought in '99 and then needed the money in '01, you would have been in the red, too. There was a long stretch in the 80s where precious metals were a very bad investment. You're also neglecting dividends from the S&P 500 fund. That will even things up a lot. Well, if you’d have bought in ‘99 and then needed the money in ‘01, you would have been in the red, too. There was a long stretch in the 80s where precious metals were a very bad investment.

You’re also neglecting dividends from the S&P 500 fund. That will even things up a lot.

]]> By: Beast Mom http://smugpuppies.com/2009/02/18/1392/comment-page-1/#comment-3297 Beast Mom Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:42:35 +0000 http://smugpuppies.com/?p=1392#comment-3297 Hindsight is always golden, eh? ;) bm P.S. My dog's superpower is to shed gold fibers rather than fur. I'm going to mail it all in to that "Cash for Gold!" commercial. I'll be filthy rich. Hindsight is always golden, eh?

;) bm

P.S. My dog’s superpower is to shed gold fibers rather than fur. I’m going to mail it all in to that “Cash for Gold!” commercial. I’ll be filthy rich.

]]> By: mattw http://smugpuppies.com/2009/02/18/1392/comment-page-1/#comment-3296 mattw Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:25:36 +0000 http://smugpuppies.com/?p=1392#comment-3296 Where's the Delorean when you need it? Where’s the Delorean when you need it?

]]> By: Vince http://smugpuppies.com/2009/02/18/1392/comment-page-1/#comment-3295 Vince Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:04:58 +0000 http://smugpuppies.com/?p=1392#comment-3295 Ah, to be omniscient. But my thoughts on investing match that of Robert Heinlein (this is a surprise why?): "$100 placed at 7 percent interest compounded quarterly for 200 years will increase to more than $100,000,000 -- by which time it will be worth nothing." Ah, to be omniscient. But my thoughts on investing match that of Robert Heinlein (this is a surprise why?):

“$100 placed at 7 percent interest compounded quarterly for 200 years will increase to more than $100,000,000 — by which time it will be worth nothing.”

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