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We like to think that being rich will solve all of our problems, but that’s not the case. Even the super wealthy can lose it all in the blink of an eye. In this feature, we’ll tell ten tales of insanely rich men who went bankrupt. The reasons vary from bad investments to nasty divorces, but they all end the same way: in the poorhouse. Sean Quinn In 2008, Sean Quinn was the richest man in all of Ireland, with a net worth north of four billion Euros. He made that money from a wide range of industries, including gravel, plastics and hospitality, but diversification led to his fall from power. In 2007, Quinn ...
Let’s face it: humans, on the whole, are not good with money. Lured by an easy buck, many folks will foolishly wager their life savings on any number of idiotic schemes. In this article, we’ll share ten hilarious tales of suckers who gambled away everything they had on bad bets and lost their life savings along the way. Carnival Hustle, 2013 This story was recently in the news, and it’s what inspired this whole article. Henry Gribbohm was at a carnival in New Hampshire when he spotted a game that he thought he could win. The carnie told him that all he had to do was throw two balls into a tilted ...
For decades now, there has been an inherent wiring in people that has them constantly gravitating further towards idiocracy through their cable television. While it may seem normal to lay wastefully connected to the boob tube simply because everybody with a hangover does it for consecutive seasons of "Game of Thrones," cable is, in fact, not something we need. As consumers, we are constantly fed ideas of material importance for things that add little to no value to the quality of our daily lives or self-worth. Just as silly as big, shiny diamonds being held as measuring sticks for a person's love and devotion to their spouse is the belief that cable is something we cannot live without ...
To quote Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' "Thrift Shop," now the longest running No. 1 rap song in Billboard's history, "Savin' my money and I'm hella happy that's a bargain, b**ch." The deal hunter's mindset applies to anywhere you can save a buck or fifty. And it doesn't matter if you're a comfortable professional or a student who's flat broke: you can make some small changes and save big. Macklemore is finally cashing in on his talent but according to Lewis, he's still "a f-ing thrifter." Lewis continued, "When we went on tour, I think he hit a thrift shop in at least 25 cities, which made the back of the tour bus literally into his closet." So we'll credit the rapper with the first money hack ...
Remember the childhood dreams we had of riding around on the back of garbage trucks and flying into space? We dreamed, and we dreamed big, but now that we’re grown men (kind of), we notice how lucky we are we didn’t follow our childhood instincts, as those plans may have been the worse possible ideas ever had. Read on to see if your childhood dream job would have worked out, and maybe catch a glimpse at what could have been. President of the United States Even if — out of all the millions of people in the USA — you’re the one guy everyone leaves work to vote for to lead our fair country, ...
The first step to cleaning out your Costanza wallet is admitting you have a problem hoarding receipts, business and credit cards, maybe even candy. In case you're unfamiliar with the term "Costanza Wallet," it refers to Seinfeld's George Costanza, who famously stashed Irish money, random gift cards, sugar packets and other "important things" in his slab of leather, proclaiming, "I need everything in this wallet!" Yet it caused him back pain, required two hands to close, was laborious to carry around and once exploded. Yeah, exploded. Are you, too, attached to your "organizer, secretary and friend," as George dubbed it? I was once. I guess I'm still in rehab: My wallet's trimmed down ...
