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When I was growing up in the 70’s and 80’s being a millionaire was huge. I remember our neighbor won a million in the lottery and immediately quit his job and bought a 1500’ house with a 2 car garage 2 blocks up the street, and we looked at him in awe. Wondering today what’s the equivalent now of a millionaire in 1980. Apparently its $3,650,000 in adjusted dollars. I was actually surprised that’s all it was.
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Cuzzin of mine hit tha mill on a scratch off a few xmas ago he looks like schit and broke today
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Cuzzin of mine hit tha mill on a scratch off a few xmas ago he looks like schit and broke today Like Nick Nolte bad?
Dave
�The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.� Lou Holtz
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Cuzzin of mine hit tha mill on a scratch off a few xmas ago he looks like schit and broke today Like Nick Nolte bad? Oh ya
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Campfire Ranger
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Dang.
Saw a tik tok of him singing happy b-day to some broad..
Eyes sunk to back of the head…
Dave
�The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.� Lou Holtz
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Campfire 'Bwana
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I'm basically pretty rich and here's what works for me.
Keep driving your old vehicle.
Keep living in your old house.
Keep working and making money.
Keep living like a king at home.
Keep humble bragging about being rich.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Hell ya Millionaire here Minutes to this & a campfire & cold beer on public land
T R U M P W O N !
U L T R A M A G A !
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There was 500,000 millionaires in the US in 1980, there’s 22,000,000 millionaires in the US today.
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I'm basically pretty rich and here's what works for me.
Keep driving your old vehicle.
Keep living in your old house.
Keep working and making money.
Keep living like a king at home.
Keep humble bragging about being rich. You’re actually on point, I read a book called the millionaire next door at the request of my CFP a lot of years ago. They pulled together a huge group of millionaires they managed money for and asked a series of questions. Most popular watch, Timex. Age of your vehicle, 8-10 years. Favorite beer, cheap domestic. Basically a lot of millionaires work hard and spend little and it adds up, but they never really “lived like a millionaire”
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Lot of unsuspecting folks are millionaires…
Have a buddy, you’d never know he has money.
If you see in Home Depot or Walmarks he’d prolly have dirty work clothes on. Driving a bear up truck.
They’ve done the $3 mil house in Destin. The fishing yacht. The private plane.
He rather be a deer camp drinking beer.
Dave
�The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.� Lou Holtz
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Cuzzin of mine hit tha mill on a scratch off a few xmas ago he looks like schit and broke today Was it “office space” they asked the guy what he’d do if he had a million bucks? He said, 2 girls at once. Laffin!
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Timex, older vehicle, cheap beer; I guess I live like a millionaire.
Dale
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Cuzzin of mine hit tha mill on a scratch off a few xmas ago he looks like schit and broke today Was it “office space” they asked the guy what he’d do if he had a million bucks? He said, 2 girls at once. Laffin!
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Going for the dry humor and was joking about being rich.
But low overhead is key.
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Guy I trout fish with had great paying jobs for this area , was left several million from his parents estate. To look at him you'd think he was broke . Same bibs all the time , reels taped to his fishing rods ( his have reel seats ) just broken and not replaced. Drinks Bud longnecks . His one somewhat big expense is a membership at a local golf club. Plays every day he's not fishing. Another one used to come in where I work hauling industrial sludge as a side gig. One night he asked to look at one of our rubber tire loaders a Case 821 . Told him to help himself , next time I talked to him he had bought 2 to move corn silage on a couple dairy farms. Guy usually wears the same clothes and drove a Chevy luv pickup when he wasn't in a road tractor or farm truck.
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Campfire Kahuna
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There are a millions of middle class working people who are in debt a million or more just on their mortgages.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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Campfire Outfitter
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A million $ sure isn’t what it used to be…… but it sure beats being broke.
Sic Semper Tyrannis
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Reminds me when I was a kid and Howard Hughes was the billionaire.
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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Reminds me when I was a kid and Howard Hughes was the billionaire. 13 billionaires in the US in 1980, 756 in 2023 So there’s 58 times more billionaires, 44 times more millionaires now than 1980.
Last edited by jackmountain; 02/26/24.
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Reminds me when I was a kid and Howard Hughes was the billionaire. 13 billionaires in the US in 1980, 756 in 2023 And many multi-billionaires like Musk, Gates and many others.
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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