I skipped beer money, fancy groceries, and non-essential items to buy on the pre-Brexit, then pre-Trump slump weeks. While it only resulted in a few hundred "extra" getting thrown into the market (on top of my regular contributions), I'm fine with it. I knew full well that the markets could have swung the other way--it's a mad beast. Those things are generally non-events in the long run and people who bail are the ones who really get hurt. Think of all the "crises" in just the past few years since the housing bubble which were going to destroy our investments--Greece defaults, the US fiscal cliff (x 2), a Ukraine-Russia war, Iceland bank collapse...