Instead my husband did everything you described, but I do feel your pain.

The stocks have been mostly failures, though, with one surprising success, while mutual funds have mostly gone nowhere.Though I’m not looking to get rich fast, I’ve found typical investing strategies to be painfully slow.

Boy was it painful!  

I think it's fantastic, although a big pain at times.

Ideally you can put it in your self directed IRA and set-it & forget it.Otherwise you can attempt to buy the non performers and go though all the pain, agony, headaches, and grief in order to get them performing again.

The biggest pain in the you know what.

Just finished one using a new painter and the results were painful to see.  

It's a pain to use, and doesn't work well if someone has a common name.

I am pulling together my info for taxes, so I feel your pain, even though I am quite comfortable in the financial realm.  

Investors are HUGE pains in the ***.