That’s just it. My tastes are so simple that while I could see the appeal in buying houses anywhere and everywhere, and in making utterly frivolous purchases, I don’t think my personality is wired that way to actually do it with an actual Powerball jackpot.

I mean, that’s not to say I don’t have silly (and destructive,…

This is the Patriots 2007 UNDEFEATED SUPER BOWL CHAMPS sweatshirt, amirite?

Mexican Navy commandos are about as “elite” as the Haitian Delta Force.

That mother-in-law thing worries me. Sounds like a Dateline episode in the making.

And wait until the lawsuit that happens because Dave in Accounting was on vacation this week and didn’t get in his $10.

I consider it the price of admission to a nationwide bit of harmless fun (well, harmless for the people who aren’t idiots about it and limit their spend to the two bucks required to gain minimum entry to the game.) Two bucks is less than what a cup of coffee runs these days.

You get to participate in a…

I’m expecting some sort of office pool to win this one.

Word of advice, learn to manage your own money and get rid of the professionals. Professionals rip people off more than family because of the access. Talk with some professionals for help, but don't give anyone else the ability to control it. At least that is my plan.

Because people with a huge amount of money in the bank they didn’t “earn” (in the traditional sense) aren’t going to live off of 150k a year. They buy that 75-100k SUV and/or sports car this year, there goes the interest. Now we need a house. New interior stuff but I come from 1500 square feet to my new 4500 +…

I do like that idea a lot. I have relatives that can associate every winning number with an event in their life and regret that they should have played it. The mental contortions they make are simultaneously funny and sad: “Oh, 37, that is when I got the diabetes, I should have played that!” “16, that is how old sissy…

I’m pretty sure I am going to win. See, I found $20 the other day in the parking lot at Starbucks. It wasn’t MY $20 (because I don’t usually carry cash, and certainly not in my pockets so it’s not like it could have fallen out of anything), and there weren’t any cars parked near mine because I was the only customer in…

If you were trying to generate an outsized return relative to the market I’d agree. But trying for a modest return to maintain wealth and generate a 7-figure annual budget isn’t going to take a lot of effort. Setting it up might, but once you’re invested in a diversified set of boring munis, bonds, index funds and…

I would find that different, I mean they own likely a serious amount of land, and maybe grew up with that land and living a little better than normal. In a lot of cases here you have folks that own jack shit now have 500 million dollars they don’t have any idea what to do with themselves.

I’ve never played the lottery, but I’m actually thinking about buying just one ticket and letting the machine pick the numbers. That way if the planets a line and I am the only winner I can go on TV and when asked “how often do you play the lottery?” I can say “first time” and when they ask “how did you choose your…

Considering that my primary problems in life are two:

I guy I worked with drives one. He constantly wonder why he didn’t buy a truck.

It’s a pickup truck for those who don’t want a true pickup truck, just some semblance of one. Like a CUV is the SUV for those who don’t want a true SUV. Except the market for people who only want a semblance of a pickup is a small fraction of the market for people who only want a semblance of an SUV, it seems. See…

ridgeline is a better _car_ every day than the taco with the versatility to be used as a light duty pickup as needed. the Pilot/Ridgeline is also actually surprisingly capable for any offroading that doesn’t involve rock crawling or mudbogging (i.e. up to _really_ crappy fire roads)

plus you can put like 5 cut up…

I have a friend that owns one and an friend of both of ours aspires to own one.

They are pretty reliable but they just dont do “truck” things very well.