[sawyer]

Is the 10% thing just to old to do any more? I am retired so look at this as someone with no children around but I must say people are spending like their is no tomorrow.I have a large saving but it is paying me a awful 1%. Makes me so up tight and to make it even more like salt rubbed into an open sore, my bank called me on my trust after Bush got in and said they were going to more it around(blind trust) so I would not lose any money and I have not lost money but lost almost all my income.I frankly did not believe them as the GOP is the party that knows about money. Well one good thing, I am not spending any and I mean any money.Food is the thing.I thought the bank had gone mad to tell that now Bush was in things were going to tank.Well I did set it up so I could only get interest so guess it is my own mess to live with.

[sinkspur]

If you have "large savings," and none of it in stocks, you're missing out.

[Ciexyz]

I am not spending any and I mean any money.

I too am retired as of Oct. 31st and I have had to adjust my spending habits downward. I still slobber over ads in the paper, but I don't spend. I look, and that helps me get it out of my system. It has to be a REAL GOOD SALE for me to shell out my bucks.