Douglas Lake Minerals Inc DLKM

Another subject...

[traveller180]

Being 45 and in a 401k, pension plan, and private investment portfolio, with three kids (one in college, one 14, and one 4) I am concerned with how the market(s) are reacting to BOTH the European debt politics and the banking sector falling on whatever news from Europe comes out on a daily basis. We use "Principal" for the 401k at my office and below is this mornings' snapshot. Although I am not quite a bad off as some of my co-workers whom only periodically monitor and/or modify their contributions and distributions, the percentages listed are my rate of return, ytd.

I am not looking for advice necessarily, but to open a 'Not Investment Advice' type discussion on retirement savings.

Bitmap Short-Term Fixed Income
Principal Global Investors		-0.02%
Money Market Inst Fund
Vanguard Group		2.95%
Bitmap Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Inv Fund
Fixed Income
Calvert Asset Management		4.01%
Calvert Bond A Fund
Dodge & Cox		4.50%
Dodge & Cox Income Fund
Templeton Asset Management		0.89%
Bitmap Templeton Global Bond A Fund
Large U.S. Equity
Calvert Asset Management		-0.36%
Calvert Equity A Fund
Capital Research and Mgmt Co		1.50%
American Funds American Mutual A Fund
Capital Research and Mgmt Co		-4.13%
American Funds Growth Fund of America A Fund
Principal Global Investors		0.27%
LargeCap S&P 500 Index Inst Fund
T. Rowe Price/Brown Advisory		1.45%
Bitmap LargeCap Growth I Inst Fund
Small/Mid U.S. Equity
Columbia Management Advisors		-5.37%
Columbia MidCap Value Z Fund
Heartland Mutual Funds		-12.51%
Heartland Value Plus Instl Fund
Principal Global Investors		-2.47%
MidCap S&P 400 Index Inst Fund
Principal Global Investors		-1.86%
SmallCap S&P 600 Index Inst Fund
Royce & Associates, LLC		-6.91%
Royce Value Plus Service Fund
Total		-0.80%

[stockarchangel]

The smartest thing I did in the 70's was to start several DRIP accounts when I got married, with holdings like Mobil, PECO, Energen, BBT, Kaman, Southern Co., etc.........then expanding the portfolio to Intel, Cisco, Microsoft, Oracle, Omega Healthcare, etc. in the late 80's. I made an honest effort to put aside $100 per month and spread the wealth in all the DRIP stocks I owned, sometimes

[traveller180]

StockArchangel, Sir, no matter what happens with this or any other stock we may or may not be mutually invested in, I am better off for having met you here. Thank you for that. I had not considered DRIP accounts previously with the exception of the Honeywell shares that I inherited a while ago. I had thought about bolstering my private account with ETF's but got turned off very quickly

[stockarchangel]

I know you guys are going to laugh, and its probably not a good idea today, but I also put aside $50 every month from 1982 to 1997 and bought $100 EE Savings bonds. Starting next year, I'll be getting close to $300 per month as an added "almost retirement" bonus. It will keep me in beer money and pay my car insurance until I'm age 74 - after which I'm my children's