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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. Without a doubt. 1982, Daniel Ludwig was the richest man in the U.S., worth 2 billion. Today, Musk = 180B Gates = 136B Bezos = 114B 8 total worth over 100B just in the US alone.
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Campfire Regular
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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” So why? Give the value to the next generation snot heads? Enjoy life! We bought a new pickup and trailer and camp, eat steak, gamble a bit and drink good booze. Life is too short! Do what you enjoy and help others.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
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Im alla bout da bling
mile long limousine
private jets
Ice on my neck
rollie on muh rissts
fortified beef products
fat woman in the front row…shut up!!
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Campfire Ranger
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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” So why? Give the value to the next generation snot heads? Enjoy life! We bought a new pickup and trailer and camp, eat steak, gamble a bit and drink good booze. Life is too short! Do what you enjoy and help others. You had me at good booze.
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Campfire Ranger
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Campfire Ranger
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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. +1
...Actually Sycamore, you are sort of right....
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Campfire Ranger
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Hell ya Millionaire here Minutes to this & a campfire & cold beer on public land ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/f5gQwFu.jpg) +1
...Actually Sycamore, you are sort of right....
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Campfire Tracker
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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” So why? Give the value to the next generation snot heads? Enjoy life! We bought a new pickup and trailer and camp, eat steak, gamble a bit and drink good booze. Life is too short! Do what you enjoy and help others. I tell my dad to spend his money on him. Don't worry about us. I told him him to "rent" a couple 20 year Olds (female) and go to the Caribbean and have fun. He'd be broke afterwards but the 80yo would have a smile....lol
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Campfire Kahuna
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If you dont have a milly by retirement and paid off house, you [bleep] up or got screwed along the way (cancer). Especially anyone retiring now. You had it damn good.
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Campfire Ranger
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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. I'd bet there are more folks worth a million that don't look it, then folks who look it, but are in the red. New cars, a McMansion, and braggy vacations doesn't mean you actually own the pot you pìss in, or the window you throw it out. We don't get to the number based on worth. Lotta folks think we are poor, they live better. In debt. Actually owning little
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Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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After Augusta County's latest property assessment, I might somehow fall into this category.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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If you dont have a milly by retirement and paid off house, you [bleep] up or got screwed along the way (cancer). Especially anyone retiring now. You had it damn good. Using the 4% rule that's $40K/year today. Not much unless there is a pension in the mix. Of course social security will help. Twenty years from now?
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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Campfire Oracle
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Campfire Oracle
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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 Lots of stories that are similar. “Winning” the lotto seems to often be a bad thing.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
--ironbender
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Campfire Ranger
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A $Mil in the bank and no debt, a guy can still live pretty well.
It is irrelevant what you think. What matters is the TRUTH.
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Campfire Kahuna
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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” I wear a nice Casio.
I am MAGA.
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Campfire Ranger
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A $Mil in the bank and no debt, a guy can still live pretty well. Exactly. All depends on what you use to calculate “million”. Take out of the equation primary home equity and a retirement account you can’t touch and I would like to see the millionaire numbers.
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Campfire Ranger
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Had a uncle ( passed a couple years ago)
My moms sisters husband..
Unassuming rancher.
East TX.
Owned 100’s of $5k acres..
Cattle.
Wore billy joe shaver wrangler shirts. Re-used cotter pins.. 😂😂
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 Oracle
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A $Mil in the bank and no debt, a guy can still live pretty well. Exactly. All depends on what you use to calculate “million”. Take out of the equation primary home equity and a retirement account you can’t touch and I would like to see the millionaire numbers. $1M in liquid assets vs $1M net worth?
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
--ironbender
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Uncle of mines was a multi mil guy thousands of acres tight as fuqk he died alone in a nursing home didn’t mean schit
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