Confessor
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Post by Confessor on Aug 5, 2024 11:58:08 GMT -5
I have all of my money tied up in tulip bulb futures. Hah!!! I put it all into NFTs! Mine's in a jam jar under the bed. |
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Post by driver1980 on Aug 5, 2024 12:00:12 GMT -5
Hah!!! I put it all into NFTs! Mine's in a jam jar under the bed. Doesn’t anyone do premium bonds anymore?  (Which reminds me, doesn’t the draw take place today?) |
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 5, 2024 12:09:27 GMT -5
Hah!!! I put it all into NFTs! Mine's in a jam jar under the bed. Pfff...amateur. Every experienced investor knows that the way to riches is to bury it in a mason jar, in the backyard! |
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Post by driver1980 on Aug 5, 2024 12:12:31 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 5, 2024 12:21:16 GMT -5
Hah!!! I put it all into NFTs! Mine's in a jam jar under the bed. True story: when one of my wife's colleagues lost her mother and had to empty the deceased's house with her siblings, they found around $20,000 in cash hidden here and there under mattresses and in assorted containers. All in small bills. After the first few stashes, they became extremely careful about checking every nook and cranny! Good thing they didn't hire a company to clean out the place! |
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 5, 2024 12:21:22 GMT -5
Well, if you are just going to throw your money away, I can recreate Herb Abrams UWF, for $20 million.......$50,000 to book the wrestlers, $100, 000 for the production and $19, 850,000.00 for the cocaine. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 5, 2024 12:23:17 GMT -5
Mine's in a jam jar under the bed. True story: when one of my wife's colleagues lost her mother and had to empty the deceased's house with her siblings, they found around $20,000 in cash hidden here and there under mattresses and in assorted containers. All in small bills. After the first few stashes, they became extremely careful about checking every nook and cranny! Good thing they didn't hire a company to clean out the place! I once did my laundry and made $30 by cleaning out the lint trap, at my old apartment complex laundry room. I pulled out the tray and five dollar bills started popping out. The dryer only cost me 75 cents! |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 5, 2024 12:48:23 GMT -5
True story: when one of my wife's colleagues lost her mother and had to empty the deceased's house with her siblings, they found around $20,000 in cash hidden here and there under mattresses and in assorted containers. All in small bills. After the first few stashes, they became extremely careful about checking every nook and cranny! Good thing they didn't hire a company to clean out the place! I once did my laundry and made $30 by cleaning out the lint trap, at my old apartment complex laundry room. I pulled out the tray and five dollar bills started popping out. The dryer only cost me 75 cents! Back when we lived in the US, my wife came back to Canada to visit her parents with our two kids. In a gas station that accepted US dollars, she paid for snacks with a US$20 bill... and got CAN$20 as change! Maths and exchange rate notwithstanding, it really felt like free money! |
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Post by Calidore on Aug 5, 2024 12:57:59 GMT -5
I once did my laundry and made $30 by cleaning out the lint trap, at my old apartment complex laundry room. I pulled out the tray and five dollar bills started popping out. The dryer only cost me 75 cents! Back when we lived in the US, my wife came back to Canada to visit her parents with our two kids. In a gas station that accepted US dollars, she paid for snacks with a US$20 bill... and got CAN$20 as change! Maths and exchange rate notwithstanding, it really felt like free money! This makes me wonder what the progression would be in a "Bottle Imp" story including exchange rates. |
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Confessor
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Post by Confessor on Aug 5, 2024 13:09:24 GMT -5
Mine's in a jam jar under the bed. Doesn’t anyone do premium bonds anymore? (Which reminds me, doesn’t the draw take place today?) My wife does! She wins something most months too -- £50 here, £100 there...sometimes even £200. They are a great investment; much higher return on your money than in a bank. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 5, 2024 13:21:40 GMT -5
Hah!!! I put it all into NFTs! Mine's in a jam jar under the bed. I hear that you Brits get better return from marmalade. |
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Confessor
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Post by Confessor on Aug 5, 2024 13:42:22 GMT -5
Mine's in a jam jar under the bed. True story: when one of my wife's colleagues lost her mother and had to empty the deceased's house with her siblings, they found around $20,000 in cash hidden here and there under mattresses and in assorted containers. All in small bills. After the first few stashes, they became extremely careful about checking every nook and cranny! Good thing they didn't hire a company to clean out the place! My Dad was notorious for hiding large amounts of cash around our family home in paper packets. After he passed away and Mum decided to sell the house, we went through the whole house with a fine toothcomb trying to find any stray wads of cash. We were pretty sure we found them all before Mum had to move out, but there's always been this nagging concern that we might've missed some. :/ |
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Post by driver1980 on Aug 5, 2024 13:52:12 GMT -5
Doesn’t anyone do premium bonds anymore? (Which reminds me, doesn’t the draw take place today?) My wife does! She wins something most months too -- £50 here, £100 there...sometimes even £200. They are a great investment; much higher return on your money than in a bank. I’ve been playing the National Lottery for decades. Rare to win. Occasional £3 or £6, very rarely £10. Bored with it now, what with fewer big prizes, an increase in numbers for the main draw, and no luck at all. So I switched to Premium Bonds last month. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Aug 5, 2024 19:31:29 GMT -5
Back after a week away, but will still be sporadic for a bit (maybe until Labor Day). We're doing a full rest of the basement game room and the upstairs reading room, and in the middle of upgrading the computers in the house. Ohio is having a sales tax amnesty week and we took advantage of it to buy a lot of new shelving, lighting fixtures, computers, etc. we had been considering, so I've been knee deep in house projects the past week and spending very little time online. Some of the changes are overflowing into a new arrangement in the living room as we swap out some old pieces of furniture and shelving there too. New Computers are due to arrive tomorrow (one to replace the one I've been using, a another for the second floor reading room so I ahve access to one up there), so I might be offline a bit until both have arrived, been set up and the new desk is in place too. Lots of chaos keeping me busy, but mostly good chaos as we refresh our living space. All new shelving for a good chunk of my comic boxes too, so resetting some of that too. Mrs. MRP is on vacation the last week of August, so some of this stuff may be ongoing through the month as we arrange things to her liking as well, so I may be very sporadic until Labor Day weekend. I'll try to make sure to stop in every Friday at least to get Top Shelf Friday posted.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Aug 5, 2024 21:52:16 GMT -5
Mine's in a jam jar under the bed. True story: when one of my wife's colleagues lost her mother and had to empty the deceased's house with her siblings, they found around $20,000 in cash hidden here and there under mattresses and in assorted containers. All in small bills. After the first few stashes, they became extremely careful about checking every nook and cranny! Good thing they didn't hire a company to clean out the place! My mother declined rapidly into Alzheimer's and apparently started hiding money all over her house. When my brother cleaned out the house he found bits in very odd places, like wrapped around the batteries in a flashlight. Never heard how much he found, but it wasn't a fortune. |
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