Harking back to a simpler time - when your 401K actually had money in it, Banker was a respected profession, and your house had something called "equity" - General Mills has rolled out retro designs on the boxes of its most popular cereals.

You can forget the current mess you're in, and sit down for a hearty bowl of Cheerios, Honey Nut Cheerios, Lucky Charms, Cocoa Puffs or Trix, sporting box designs from when you were a kid. And your biggest worry was trading baseball cards, not trading sinking stocks.

And in true old-school marketing style, send in five UPC codes from the cereal boxes and General Mills will send you a vintage cereal logo tee. Just go to www.cerealwear.com for info. And if the economy has really got you down, and you can't spring for the $20 for five boxes of Cocoa Puffs, you can send them $5 and they'll send you a shirt.