Kobe, a kid working a summer construction job in Belgium whose crew found a buried stash of gold worth €9M or 10.5M USD in today’s money, is the inspiration for this question. I’m assuming in that event, half goes to the property owner and it’s 4 construction workers and a foreman splitting the other half. The rightful owner has 5 years to claim according to local law. What would you do while you wait that out?
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God damn. That was a good one. Well done
$10 million? what’s a kid gonna do with $5 million? I mean it’s only $1 million! there’s only so much he could do with $50k. maybe he could save the $10k for college funds or something. or he could spend all $1k on a nice TV.
this is always how these things end up when you find $500.
I’d continue to live my life by enjoying each day to the fullest, like I do now.
Love my job, happy with my situation, would just look forward to maybe retiring in five years.
Might make a wish list of what I’d do w the money
I’d learn what I can about investment strategies, and to determine between good and bad ones.
In my particular situation, I’d do nothing differently. Especially since it’s not guaranteed. Even if it were guaranteed, I’d just be relieved that soon what few financial concerns I have would be gone. That’s all that would change, I’d be a bit more relaxed.
I would earmark that money for use for my son’s future. So, no change, just the hope that if the money did become mine, that I’d be able to pass it on to him.
That’s very thoughtful!
Try not to get upset that it will drastically depreciate in value in those 5 years instead of me getting it now
FWIW the scenario I’m basing it off of is in the gold value, so nothing certain but it could possibly move with inflation.
I would give up looking for a job, live frugal for a bit until then
I already have a similar enough situation. I’ve worked for several startup companies where part of my compensation is stock options that promise to make lots of money if. It’s not guaranteed so I’ll just continue normally until the time is up and I find out.
I mean, usually it is worthless, sometimes you feel cheated, but once I got enough to buy a new car
Just a million? Pay off remaining debts and put the rest toward buying land to retire on.
