[biosurfer1]

You just never know how these things will work out. My mom worked for a company for a couple years that offered a 15% discount on their stock to employees, up to a max of something like $50 a paycheck, so she did every pay check and never paid attention. When she left, they gave her the actual paper certificates and she asked me to handle it since she didnt know what to do with them. I went to Scottrade to open an account and deposit them. I logged on a couple days later and found out that mom had about 5500 shares...not bad. She told me she paid an average of about $.50 per share over the 3 years and now the stock was over $3.50!

She celebrated by selling and taking the family to Costa Rica for a vacation. Not bad at all and she knew it could have easily gone the other way.