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A funny thing happened today. Not haha funny, but funny all the same.
DH has been looking for the last few days for some mail he got from DWS Scudder the people who do his retirement fund. He's been working for Farmer's for almost 3.5 years and we've never really paid much attention to the retirement plan except to be grateful it's there.
So he's been looking for this paper because as of this year Farmer's has changed their retirement stuff, I couldn't tell ya how because that stuff is WAY over my head. Somehow I can get a Master's but start talking to me in about 401ks and IRAs and my mind completely shuts down
Anyway he said because they've changed things this year he has the option to take some of the money out without the mega fees that he would otherwise incur because of whatever switch that was made.
He never found the paper but we went through the Farmer's Employee website and finally got into the retirement area to see what's going on. Up until this point we haven't really felt the effects of the bad economy much. Things aren't too bad here in grand ol' Oklahoma. So he looks around and finds the place where he can get the money and he goes through everything and so we're now getting some money from his retirement in a check soon
BUT we kept looking around and started looking into the history of the last 9 months or so. He's lost 23% of his retirement money!!
That is just ridiculous. He's lost nearly $200 in the last three weeks alone.
Its funny because it wasn't a big deal before because we didn't even know about it, but to find out he's been losing money for almost a year really stinks. I wish he could just take all of the money and then we could invest it where WE want to, rather than having the $$ washed down the drain by the dying stock market.
So anyway, we now have $$ coming to us to spend at Disney, not that we will spend all of it by any means, but its nice to have a little cushion so we don't have to be on as tight a budget as we thought we would.
I really tried to convince Cory that we should upgrade to the deluxe dining plan, since we are already over on our table service ADRs but he wasn't having any of it
It was worth a try 
At least now I don't feel as bad about have two more table service than our meal plan covers.
is T-Rex on the meal plan?
DH has been looking for the last few days for some mail he got from DWS Scudder the people who do his retirement fund. He's been working for Farmer's for almost 3.5 years and we've never really paid much attention to the retirement plan except to be grateful it's there.
So he's been looking for this paper because as of this year Farmer's has changed their retirement stuff, I couldn't tell ya how because that stuff is WAY over my head. Somehow I can get a Master's but start talking to me in about 401ks and IRAs and my mind completely shuts down
Anyway he said because they've changed things this year he has the option to take some of the money out without the mega fees that he would otherwise incur because of whatever switch that was made.
He never found the paper but we went through the Farmer's Employee website and finally got into the retirement area to see what's going on. Up until this point we haven't really felt the effects of the bad economy much. Things aren't too bad here in grand ol' Oklahoma. So he looks around and finds the place where he can get the money and he goes through everything and so we're now getting some money from his retirement in a check soon
BUT we kept looking around and started looking into the history of the last 9 months or so. He's lost 23% of his retirement money!!
That is just ridiculous. He's lost nearly $200 in the last three weeks alone. Its funny because it wasn't a big deal before because we didn't even know about it, but to find out he's been losing money for almost a year really stinks. I wish he could just take all of the money and then we could invest it where WE want to, rather than having the $$ washed down the drain by the dying stock market.
So anyway, we now have $$ coming to us to spend at Disney, not that we will spend all of it by any means, but its nice to have a little cushion so we don't have to be on as tight a budget as we thought we would.
I really tried to convince Cory that we should upgrade to the deluxe dining plan, since we are already over on our table service ADRs but he wasn't having any of it
It was worth a try At least now I don't feel as bad about have two more table service than our meal plan covers.
is T-Rex on the meal plan?
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