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The homeless millionaire.

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  • #52
    Jelle1880
    Registered Users Posts: 9,839 ✭✭✭Jelle1880


    Permabear wrote: »
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    If he's really a millionaire then he'll earn a decent amount on interest alone.
    I'm talking several tens of millions of euro in the bank though, not 1 million.


  • #53
    Yourself isit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,257 ✭✭✭Yourself isit


    Permabear wrote: »
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    It's all post tax if he is already a multi millionaire, he will mostly be playing down savings . If he's 70 and has a few million and nobody to inherit then even costs of $150k will last a long time.

    At that spend $5M would keep him for 30 years.

    (Personally I'd say he would spend $300k.a year though).


  • #54
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,498 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    Stonedpilot wrote: »
    He was good natured and realized the absurdity of gathering possessions so he spends it on hotels b and b's instead. Each to their own.
    Cool to meet a homeless millionaire!.

    Its very easy for a millionaire to say "the absurdity of owning possessions".

    Without his millions he would be really homeless and on the street. Very few are in the lucky position to be able to buy everything they need with cash in the bank.


  • #55
    Panthro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,876 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    I once got talking to a naked millionaire man who was rather hairy.
    Come to think of it, I was rather drunk at the time.
    Perhaps I misheard his "millionhairs" claim....


  • #56
    Glenster
    Registered Users Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭Glenster


    Stonedpilot wrote: »
    So recently spoke to a homeless millionaire. He spoke to me for hours on a lake walk. Hes an elderly German man who loves Ireland so lives here. He spends all his time living in hotels and b and b's as thats what he likes proudly telling me he does not rent own or posess any home. "Im a homess millionaire" he said jovially.He was highly intelligent and speaks several languages (how he made his money actually language courses). His story was fascinating (albeit a bit sad, dead wife and son) and I know people might say ah he was lying but he came across as very sincere and brutally honest and a man in his late 70's really has no reason to lie to a total stranger I mean he couldnt benefit either way. He laughed at peoples obsession for property and had some amazing insights into life. I learned from the man anyway. He was good natured and realized the absurdity of gathering possessions so he spends it on hotels b and b's instead. Each to their own.
    Cool to meet a homeless millionaire!.

    1) This crazy lonely old man was obviously lying for attention.

    2) Being a millionaire is actually no big deal. Sell your house and you're 2/3rds of the way there.

    3) Imagine the hassle of having to cart everything you own from hotel to hotel. Even if you only owned a few changes of clothes and some photo albums and a laptop. It has to be more than a suitcase.


  • #57
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Permabear wrote: »
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    If he spent that a year on hotels and only had E1m, he's be able to go for over 66 years. I'm sure he'll be grand.


  • #58
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    topper75 wrote: »
    OK so I guess they are empowered to some extent in that they can do stuff they wouldn't otherwise be able to do. You gave a robust defence!

    I just get irritated when words such as empowered are thrown around to the point where they lose original meaning and vigour. See awesome. Large multinationals and their buzzword culture are often to blame.

    Hats off for the work.

    You should touch base with HR, and maybe run point on some workshop.


  • #59
    Pelvis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭Pelvis


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    If he spent that a year on hotels and only had E1m, he's be able to go for over 66 years. I'm sure he'll be grand.

    I think your calculator might be broken.


  • #60
    Yourself isit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,257 ✭✭✭Yourself isit


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    If he spent that a year on hotels and only had E1m, he's be able to go for over 66 years. I'm sure he'll be grand.

    Who said he only had 1M. Probably a multi millionaire


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  • #61
    MysticMonk
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 903 ✭✭✭MysticMonk


    I've met a few millionaires in my time,not blokes who reckoned their gaff was worth a million quid but people(usually from the country) who had come up without an arse in their trousers and worked and saved their arses off for decades. Usually they had bought a few shiit properties back in the 60s and sold them for huge money in the last decade or two.
    Without exception they were tightwads, one guy brought a packet of marietta biscuits into work on monday to do him for lunches for the entire week. Another was a landlord who lived in a semi-derilect hovel and wore one suit for 50 years whilst raking in thousands a week in rent.


  • #62
    4ensic15
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭4ensic15


    My grandfathers uncle (a bachelor) lived permanently in a hotel in the South of Ireland for years until he died. When he died his estate was the equivalent of about €2 million. Sadly none of the money made it as far as me.


  • #63
    Stonedpilot
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Stonedpilot


    4ensic15 wrote: »
    My grandfathers uncle (a bachelor) lived permanently in a hotel in the South of Ireland for years until he died. When he died his estate was the equivalent of about €2 million. Sadly none of the money made it as far as me.

    Sounds like the lad I met.


  • #64
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,187 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    This may or may not be true, but for someone who can actually afford to live like that it would make a hell of a lot more sense to buy a nice pad in a smart part of Dublin and employ a butler sort of person.


  • #65
    Stonedpilot
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Stonedpilot


    jimgoose wrote: »
    This may or may not be true, but for someone who can actually afford to live like that it would make a hell of a lot more sense to buy a nice pad in a smart part of Dublin and employ a butler sort of person.

    Sense schmense. Not to them.They choose not to do so. Many elderly millionaires are eccentric and what you describe is the last thing they want.


  • #66
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,410 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    I always wondered what mindset there is for someone to live a very basic life with little or no luxuries, and yet have no family or anyone to leave the money to.

    I remember reading some story about a bachelor farmer in Kerry or Cork a decade or so back, who left nearly 3million behind him, yet he lived a very basic and frugal life.

    Whats the point?


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  • #67
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,187 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    NIMAN wrote: »
    I always wondered what mindset there is for someone to live a very basic life with little or no luxuries, and yet have no family or anyone to leave the money to.

    I remember reading some story about a bachelor farmer in Kerry or Cork a decade or so back, who left nearly 3million behind him, yet he lived a very basic and frugal life.

    Whats the point?

    A lot of these characters simply have no idea what one might spend money on beyond the necessities, so they don't.


  • #68
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,410 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Hookers would be a start! I'm sure many of them are dying as virgins.


  • #69
    valoren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,551 ✭✭✭valoren


    Didn't Richard Harris stay in the Savoy Hotel in London for years?

    Imagine being completely ignorant about who he actually was and he started randomly chatting away to you in a London Pub, he'd be regaling you with stories about him being a famous 'actor' who had worked with the likes of Brando et al, he'd tell you who stayed in the swanky Savoy and not having a clue who he was you're thinking "Yeah....right....ok....". You'd then tell people you'd met that some elderly bum had you totally convinced that he was a huge Hollywood star!


  • #70
    Spider Web
    Closed Accounts Posts: 386 ✭✭Spider Web


    He is not homeless (homeless people worry about having a roof over their head day to day) and a millionaire sneering at people for wanting possessions is just laughable.


  • #71
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,187 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    valoren wrote: »
    Didn't Richard Harris stay in the Savoy Hotel in London for years?

    Imagine being completely ignorant about who he actually was and he started randomly chatting away to you in a London Pub, he'd be regaling you with stories about him being a famous 'actor' who had worked with the likes of Brando et al, he'd tell you who stayed in the swanky Savoy and not having a clue who he was you're thinking "Yeah....right....ok....". You'd then tell people you'd met that some elderly bum had you totally convinced that he was a huge Hollywood star!

    It's just English Bob, the no-good low-down varmint!


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  • #72
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,187 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Hookers would be a start! I'm sure many of them are dying as virgins.

    "I'm goin' ta town Daddy, ta get meself a WOMAN!!" :pac:


  • #73
    BrokenArrows
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    jimgoose wrote: »
    This may or may not be true, but for someone who can actually afford to live like that it would make a hell of a lot more sense to buy a nice pad in a smart part of Dublin and employ a butler sort of person.

    Its probably a loneliness thing.
    Living in your own house alone vs living in a hotel constantly surrounded by people and staff who know you.


  • #74
    pilly
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    My son once stayed in a hostel in Canada with a guy who claimed to be a millionaire stockbroker who stayed in hostels because he met interesting people in them. My son went along with it but didn't believe him for a minute. They were discussing the Colm McGregor fight (not the most recent, the one before that) one night and the fella said he'd send my son and his friend to Vegas for it and they laughed it off saying "jaysus, can't wait".

    A week before the fight this guys secretary rings my son for his and his friends passport numbers for the flights. Flew them business class, put them up in a 5 star hotel with tickets for the fight. One of the greatest moments of my sons life. He's learned to be a bit more trusting now. :D


  • #75
    take everything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,808 ✭✭✭take everything


    Stonedpilot wrote: »
    Has the money to pay no family as such and knows he will be dead within few years so hotels it is. Must cost a fortune but worse ways to spend it.


    Come to think of it didnt Keanu Reeves live in hotels for years too?.

    IIRC another celebrated ”strange" character, Nikola Tesla lived in a New York hotel. Died there as well.


  • #76
    Pat Mustard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


    pilly wrote: »
    My son once stayed in a hostel in Canada with a guy who claimed to be a millionaire stockbroker who stayed in hostels because he met interesting people in them. My son went along with it but didn't believe him for a minute.
    We've one or two "millionaires" on here as well. Wouldn't be holding my breath for fight tickets!


  • #77
    Ush1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,478 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    pilly wrote: »
    My son once stayed in a hostel in Canada with a guy who claimed to be a millionaire stockbroker who stayed in hostels because he met interesting people in them. My son went along with it but didn't believe him for a minute. They were discussing the Colm McGregor fight (not the most recent, the one before that) one night and the fella said he'd send my son and his friend to Vegas for it and they laughed it off saying "jaysus, can't wait".

    A week before the fight this guys secretary rings my son for his and his friends passport numbers for the flights. Flew them business class, put them up in a 5 star hotel with tickets for the fight. One of the greatest moments of my sons life. He's learned to be a bit more trusting now. :D

    What went on it that hostel?:(:P


  • #78
    positron
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    Am I the only one jealous that OP at least had an interesting conversation. All I seem to attract is people trying to save me by joining their cult / sect/ version of some religion or the other. I would happily talk to a convincing lier over any religious nutcases out there.


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