It's true. I don't really have much to say. I'd write a short story - I have a few more ideas floating around in my head - but I just really don't have any creative inspiration at the moment. Anyone who writes will know what I mean.
I worked all day, from noon to 8:30. I ran into a friend of mine I knew from work, Larry, and we reminisced in the back until pangs of conscience reminded me that I was in fact getting paid for this malarkey. So I went back to work. I was in the zone today...I did quite well, in terms of selling Edge cards and reserves of video games. So, good news there.
Vic believes that if I won tonight's lottery - at $38 million, if I took the lump sum as I planned, I would receive roughly $12 million - and did not give away at least 20%-25% of my money to charity, that I was a horrible person. I maintained that there was no imperative, legal, moral, or otherwise, to compel me to give away one dang cent of my imagined winnings, and it was entirely my choice...and not giving away $3 million did not make me a terrible person. I don't think I could bring myself to part with $3 million all at once anyway. I had trouble enough parting with 5,000 World of WarCraft gold to buy my epic flying mount. I would no doubt give hundreds of thousands away - perhaps even a million - but it's my danged imaginary winnings, and I'll do with it as I please. I'm under no obligation to do otherwise. (Besides, as I plan to invest in the stock market, I'll be helping companies grow and creating jobs, which is charitable enough in and of itself, even if it's done with the aim of making me moneys.) I will buy you a new car though, Dan, even though you took my money at poker.
That's about it.
The Luke-Approved YouTube Link of the Day is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uSlqI1AVUk It's a parody of the rather more famous Nickelback song, Rock Star, which you can find here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrcTz5XRtN8 If you don't know the video, watch the real one first, and the parody second. It's quite amusing.
REPLIES.
Steven: I know, I know, it's not supposed to be for my personal enjoyment, but it's still boring. A GPS? Fascinating. Are you going to circle around in your driveway and marvel at how you know exactly where you are?
Jake: Yeah, tell me about it. And Daniel summed it up pretty well in his comment, so go back and read it.
Daniel: Pretty much. Er, bye.
The end.
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Well, now I think I'm caught up on my comments.
Giving away 25-30% is too much. 10%is the traditional tithing amount, and it's a good number. Give away 10%, save 10% (give to yourself), and spend 80%. Good rules to follow with your money.
love,
Mama
ps And don't forget giving money to your dear old Mom....
Don't give a cent to charity. Instead, share some wealth with your family, and buy yourself the best stuff (best tv, best computer, best games, best car, best everything). Then take the remainder and store it somewhere so that you don't have to work for a long time. Then don't work for a long time. The perfect plan.
-Steve
I did not say that you need to give away 25%, I said 10% -15%! If I had that kind of money I would donate more, but at least a million should be parted with for the betterment of society.
I'm so excited! Huckabee is leading in Iowa, according to CNN, at the moment! I might get to vote for him!
~Vic
As we discussed, the people who change their lifestyles dramatically (buy many new cars and homes and boats) end up broke and ruined financially, usually with a divorce or two in the mix.
People who don't change their lifestyles dramatically (pay off their debts, buy a better car but only one, buy a better house but not multiple mega-mansions, etc) usually end up extremely comfortable financially.
The first thing to do is to get a financial advisor to tell you what to do with the money. Take some and give it to charity, take some and blow it on fun stuff, but put the bulk of it away for the long term. The percentages of each are left as an exercise for the reader.
But the conversation is theoretical anyway, since nobody won that round.
-- Your fellow not winner Dad
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