Recent content by Achiever51

Continuing as before is likely a roll of the dice. Should GM decide to drop its current pension plan entirely, would those choosing option 1 now be at the mercy of the PBGC?

This just came across the news wire: General Motors Co. today announced that it will provide select U.S. salaried retirees a lump-sum payment offer and other retirees with a continued monthly pension payment securely administered and paid by The Prudential Insurance Company of America, a...

I would think any option would be preferable to the Mom and Dad route. Oh my.

Marathoner, You've been hammered with a lot of stuff all at one time, and it's going to take time to absorb it before you can deal with it in a unemotional way. The forum posters here have provided good suggestions, and it sounds like you have a good support team behind you. Having not been in...

I handled the paperwork for a property my parents sold on land contract and for the 15 years of the contract, every year I would update the amortization schedule and send a letter to the buyers with the amount of principle and interest paid. Don't forget that you also have to report the...

According to VG,, my IRR thru 11/30/11 is +6.2%. Haven't taken any withdrawals this year, nor added any "new" money beyond reinvesting of capital gains/dividends. No complaints given the roller coaster market!

Yes, please do! The amazing folks who helped my DH were greatly assisted by the fire department dispatcher who stayed on the phone & encouraged them to keep time of the CPR to the BeeGee's song "Staying Alive" (irony noted).

Absolutely agree. My father wanted to stay in his home after his terminal diagnosis and my brother and I agreed to be there for him as long as we could care for him. We got hospice involved early on and they were wonderful, providing in home care, respite care and support to us all. When Dad's...

Knowing that the survivability of a cardiac arrest outside of a hospital is <2%, you should feel good that you tried, no matter what the outcome. In January, my DH suffered a sudden cardiac arrest at a client's office. Several employees performed hands-only CPR on him for 13 minutes until EMTs...

I learned something from this. Thank you for posting. Now I understand why my DD can Google the same word(s) that I do and get different results!

When I was at MegaCorp, I had a long-term contract employee for administrative duties. While I was on a business trip, he left me a voice mail message of his resignation. About a week or so after he quit, I discovered that he mailed out a letter to our entire mailing list of approximately 14,000...

Interesting thread as DD just called and told me her debit card has been compromised. She learned of it when she got an alert of a several hundred dollar transaction at a store in California - she immediately called her bank and they've already cancelled her card, but she's still very upset...

This is unbelieveably tragic. Those animals are majestic, but definitely do not belong in private, unregulated "zoos." It is just fortunate that no people were harmed in this disaster, but horrible that the local authorities really had no other option but shooting to kill.

:rofl::rofl::rofl: Bahahahahaha! And put me down as another oldie who learned how to type on a MANUAL typewriter. I will never adjust to the one space after a period...muscle memory is permanently fused to add a double space on every device I use.

I think this "holiday" started here in Michigan...as a way to sell more candy. When DD went to school out west and mentioned the day to a new roommate, her reply was: "I didn't know you were Swedish!"