This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.
Be warned:
If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.
Real answer:
I'll add:
4: Go in to debt for more drugs
yeah this is the answer but people with suddenly $18,000 from a lottery aren't going to do it
you ain't traveling anywhere on $18.
Apparently 2 people won the 1.8 billion$ powerball last night. One Texas the other in Missouri.
To put it mildly my life is over. Now i cant buy a million acres of land and create my own compound. How will I pay for my dogs english lessons so that we can finally talk???
Jokes aside i hope whoever won blows it on coke and hookers
That's a lot of coke...
It is. Statistically most lottery winners have managed to burn through their winnings after something like 2-3 years. It may take slightly longer if the payout is a half billion or so (because you just can't possibly list any price or prize in the US after taxes, that would be preposterous for reasons).
It turns out there's a high correlation between people who are bad with money and people who buy lottery tickets.
It would be awesome if the lottery winnings came with complementary financial advisement by a fiduciary for the first year. That way there's at least a hope that money can improve their lives long term instead of just making for a crazy spending spree for a few years.
people who are bad with money
It's just repackaged gambling. It's designed to take money away from people who are already struggling. The organizers will never benefit from giving away finance advising and the average participant would never ask for advising.
The organizers are the government, so surely they have a vested interest in helping their residents succeed in life...
😂
Fake: there is no way anon can have a gambling addiction and a girlfriend at the same time.
I actually do know a guy like that. But it took him until like almost 30's to manage to get one and I'm pretty sure she has kind of a lot of addictions as well.
fake: anon gets a lottery call, probably it's a scam
gay: anon is a girl (ignoring this is 4chan)
Nah, it's gay because the GF is a femboy. Nowhere does anon say "she."
If this is legit (lol) then the real answer is split up, and stay single until you find someone who you'd never refer to as 'bitch'
Yep yep yep.
I would suggest anon takes that 18k, sets aside ~75% of it in some kind of savings or investment scheme, start that nest egg early.
(No, not fucking crypto, probably just find a high yield savings account)
Or, wipe out any existing debts first.
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Then, take whats left, and consider:
Fix up your car,
Get some good quality clothes and shoes or boots that you will be able repair and maintain, get the tools that enable you do to that,
Get a good and comfortable mattress and quality pillows,
Get some good quality cooking appliances that are relatively portable and will enable you to make decent meals from scratch, or at least closer to scratch,
Unironically, consider getting a bidet... toilet paper is expensive, a reasonably priced bidet addon to a normal toilet can pay for itself in a few months,
Basic repair toolkit for electronics, and also basic repair toolset for around the house/automobile type stuff,
Some basic, not stupid expensive, home work out / strength training equipment.
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Ya'll see where I going with this.
Use that other 25% to buy actually useful things that lay a more solid foundation for the rest of your life.
Solid foundation?
You're much more likely to be able to buy that motorcycle or gaming pc or what not in another year or two, all without having to touch that nest egg for anything other than true emergencies... if you can keep working at whatever you're working at, from that stable foundation.
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Take that Bali trip in 5 years or a decade when you can actually afford it, not instantly with someone who's first instinct upon coming into money unexpectedly is to spend it on something ephemeral and temporary.
I bet that's how anon refers to everyone.
mr white this money is mine, YO
Money is the cause of most long term relationship struggles in the US. Talk to your fake girlfriend about what you desire to do with your fake money.
That sounds like too much work. Can't I just fake the conversation, too?
Time to go get dinner and let her pay for her own food.
What country that uses the dollar sign uses that formatting? In Canada and us I think it's $18,000. The way anon writes it is tripping me out.
Based on the English my best guess is the 4chan op is German.
Why they used a dollar sign instead of euro sign idk, probably just 4chan stuff.
Croatia. Anon also has that long croat hair, and being a croat and a channer, he worships a man named hitler, which makes him gay!
Most european countries, I think? At least that's how I'd write it. And I'd use $ cause it's just easier for people to understand the value and cause for most keyboards the euro sign is slightly less comfy to use.
Km100? Mb/s100? But $100 is suddenly ok? Americans clearly do it wrong.
And you say "100 Dollars" and not "Dollars 100", right?
Not like we're better though; germans say numbers wrong.
I didn't say it was ok; just the way we do it in Canada as well as the States. It absolutely makes no sense lol. I'm pretty sure a lot of growing up make the "mistake" of writing 100$.
This is to be a language thing. In the US, Australia, Canada, and the UK, we write £20, $20, and €20 (and 50c, 50¢, 50p if using coinage). In Quebec, Canada, the currency symbol goes at the end, because French is the provincial language.
In English, 20$ is wrong. In French, $20 is wrong. Use the right system for your language.
I know as a metric enthusiast you HAVE TO get offended the second something imperial is mentioned. Whatever it doesn't matter if you like it or not, if the story would not be fake and gay, he would have written $Value and not Value$
There are countless ways I feel different from the people around me, but spending habits is a big one. I never had the urge to start buying things when I got money. I’ve just always saved it. Even as a kid, I had a chest with a lock on it where I kept all my savings. I was always the one people borrowed money from and paid back with interest.
Now as an adult, I find it even easier not to go on a spending spree when I get a large lump sum of money from somewhere, because getting more money doesn’t really enable me to buy something I couldn’t have bought before. Even when I do treat myself to something, it’s usually BIFL quality, so once I have it, I never need to buy it again.
I guess it’s worth noting that always being alone with no one to spend the money with helps too.
I'm the same way, and I don't even know what I'd splurge on if given a bunch of money. I've conditioned myself to be happy with less, so any money I get goes to investments, and if I have enough to retire on my current lifestyle, I'd do that and just work on personal projects instead of going to work.
But I grew up in a middle-class household where we always had enough because my parents were careful with money. They taught me to save early on, and I was able to afford some nice things (TV and game console) with the little I earned mowing lawns and whatnot. I had great role models, and I've almost never had to worry about money and only needed to go into debt for my house.
I wish everyone had that kind of role model. A little financial discipline can be the difference between anxiety from living paycheck to paycheck and being able to quit your abusive job and get one that respects your time.
Consumerism has mostly been a way to separate fools and their money throughout the 20th century.
If consumerism wouldn't exist, the workers would have earned good dollars (back in the 20th century wages were typically still good), but would have kept the wealth to themselves, and so you end up with a powerful working class. If instead, the people spend their money as soon as they have it, the companies and therefore the company owners get a share of the money repeatedly, until all of the wealth is slowly siphoned away by the owning class.
Shouldn’t have told her…
Donate the girlfriend to charity