Amen Doug!!!
Short term, I am using a more cash-on-hand viewpoint. The $1750 repair/repaint on the crunch in my
oil cooler fiberglass will have to wait until I can pay cash for it. The Gorilla tape fix looks good enough for now. Good thing the car's black.
I'm still 20 years from retirement so I'm not panicing over this blip. In fact, turns out I'm quite the brilliant investment planner. I changed jobs and when I changed 401k's, they sent me a check made out to the new 401k. Well, my lazy butt sat on it for 3 weeks and in that 3 weeks the Dow dropped 1000 points! I thought that was a fine time to get back in. Woo hoo! Made 8% in 3 weeks sitting on my keister! And my wife said I didn't know squat about investing.....