Man, all of these posts are hitting home with me..I still haven't decide what the heck to do with my 401K. I guess along with "fixing my credit" this year, I need to add "making the decision about what the hell to do with my so-called-retirement plan"????
If you are a very jard worker and motivated like Go2ndAmend follow his example. He has all the bases covered.
A couple hours of hard yard work can cripple me depending on the task. So at 65 I have found myself unable to enjoy some of my pre retirement dreams. We would be in big trouble if I had listened to the nay sayers. I draw SS my wife does not yet. But when we retired we were saving 25% of our gross in 401Ks. Over my career I had two opportunities to roll them into self directed IRAs. Now we are completely debt free; this includes our home. We are living the high life on just the SS and dividends from our IRAs.
I did it by trying to pick stocks with worth, paid dividends and would not lose money. Yes I missed Microsoft, Apple and the like. But I also miss losing big on the dot com bust and others.
The silver coins I collected for fun are more valuable than the silver collected by my friends hedging a crash.
