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Everyone says this but nobody would actually do it
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I owe a couple hospitals some otherwise unpayable debts
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Many do. Many don't.
There is a lot of individual beliefs and thoughts tied to it.
Neat! I will look at those.
Extra question: is Bluetooth acceptable, or is it horrible bullshit? It would be nice to have one fewer wire but I am leery of wireless stuff that winds up being a real hassle.
Are you saying lots of people win the lottery and don't change their lifestyle?
This post just made me realize "mean feat" refers to the mean/median/mode version of mean.
Entered my deck codes and such.
I've no personal experience, but plenty of second-hand experience that, unless you'rr going hardcore audiophile, wireless are perfectly functional and fairly pain-free these days
If you all had your salary multiply by ten or twenty or thirty, nothing would change?
Just don’t think that’s the result of honest introspection, no offense
Excellent, we continue to hold a small fraction of decision-making power in a mid-sized town!
Many change their life but don't blow it all down a hole either. And there are folks who just want it hidden and not wanting to be extravagant. We very much hear about the ones that fuck up.
I think about it, I am not sure I want for things. I also understand I am a weirdo. I understand I have historically lived like a monk just out of my natural want.
I don't know. I didn't buy a ticket, the odds are laughable. But even I did win I think my grandest plan was to start a non-profit to work on health issues in areas of the US that need help if they want it.
I don't like cars. My computer is nice. I like my condo. I like my work. I have good friends. I guess I won't be as obsessive at saving but even when I haven't had to be I just have a really built in need not to spend more than I have or feel like I should. I literally have panic attacks paying $200 for things I need.
Neat! I think I'm going to go for one or the other of the like $100 ones, I feel like they'll be a legit improvement. When I broke my old ones it was legitimately less nice at work, over-ear is just so much more comfortable.
Or maybe I'll win the lottery and finally realize my dream of having $8,000 headphones!
Not "nothing", but nothing drastic.
I'd quit, and spend more time on my hobbies. Travel slightly more frequently maybe, and def. first class.
Like I live well below my means as is, it's not really the cost of anything that stops me from doing it.
I am just a very boring person.
It’s not a very important country most of the time
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My income in the last 4 years has tripled.
My monthly bills are more because I bought a condo and I wanted to live alone. Then I got a dog when I new I could afford it and save the same amount.
I am kind of my limit. I am eyeing a new car to replace my 10 year old car next year and literally planning the finances out months in advance when in reality I could afford it without problem.
Some people actually lived that.
And some of us have some programming from parents and culture that makes us kind of obsessive like we are from the Great Depression or something.
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I'm with chu, I don't think it's realistic to think you can know this about yourself
I am going to help the guy at my level convince his boss that the current way of looking at their data makes no sense
both the boss and the other guy are dumb though! That's ok; I will use small words and make pretty pictures
yes it is not becoming to talk this way, and yes it is a classic arrogant physicist move to walk in, spend 10 minutes thinking about your problem, and then tell you you're wrong and he can do it better but the thing is
they're wrong and I can do it better
My flex in my budget is $900 a month.
Chu, I hate this because I am feeling like I am being improper. But I can afford $200 when I need to. And budget for more for emergencies.
House: For the sake of easy math, call it an even $1 million
Paying off debts for family: $19 milion
Set nephew up at 18 years old: $80 million
Hospital wings: $200 million
Soft-landing a statue of me on the Moon: $200 million
Invest / live off interest: $100 million
I never said anything about not changing your lifestyle. But certainly you can not go insane and blow it all too. The sensible thing to do is invest it and live generously for literally doing nothing but existing. And living like that you can definitely upgrade a lot.
Like, I'd live differently then I do now but I would basically go on vacation more and have nicer things. Probably a second residence as a condo.
Biggest thing to avoid is, I swear from reading these stories about broke lottery winners, buying stupidly expensive cars. That seems to bankrupt so many people.
I still think you're totally wrong about your coworkers being jerks or in any way socially risible
But I completely believe everybody does dumb stuff at work all the time and has no idea until somebody new arrives and actually engages their brain on the topic
What will the statue look like and how big will its penis be?
I'd buy at least 3 fabulous apartments, 1-2 in the US and 1-2 in europe, obviously quit my job, honestly not super sure what else, but the apartments are the big thing. Mayyybe one of them could be a small house instead but I find the concept of too many rooms/too much square footage a bit intimidating/hard to keep up with/lonely.
Yeah both brands have $100-$150 options that will give you all you ever really need outside of a studio :P
Oh yeah if there's multiple claims being made here I'm much more on board with somebody saying they think they wouldn't ruin their life if they won them somebody saying they wouldn't change their lifestyle
If you think you wouldn't spend twice as much a year if your income increased by an order of magnitude, you're mistaken
I think I’ll just agree to disagree on this one. I certainly recognize that some people would very minimally change their lives, though the number of people who claim it of themselves seems similar to the people who claim they’re one of the only safe drivers on the road. Some people are correct but knowing who is beyond me, I guess.
The first draft, it was just going to be a statue of my penis, but I wanted it to be visible from Earth through a telescope >_>
Then I'd buy like 150 acres of land nobody wants in New Mexico and populate a garage with a crapload of ATV's and other off-road items and use it for fuuuuuuun.