All That Folding

[Bazile]

What do you do with all your folding when you are a billionaire / multi billionaire

What's the point of buying your sixth yatch / home / car

Afterall you can't take it with you - just ask those ancient Egyptians

[ummmm]

People who take advantage would be annoying. Who would want to spend time with them?

[bhg481]

Interesting Vagus.
How do you know which are the begging letters until you've spent the time to open them.
Give money anonymously to friends - what would you do if you suddenly found say £10,000 in your bank or an envelope pushed through the door?
Pay for anything you want for old friends. Who cares? They probably will.
It's not as simple as it sounds.

[Vagus]

Don’t open any begging letters, easy isn’t it?
Give money anonymously to friends and family through a solicitor, who would explain it was legitimate.
Old friend are old friends, they know you and you know them.
No, probably not simple but definitely doable, I’d find a way if I were ever in this situation :)

[bhg481]

I ask again - how do you recognise a begging letter without taking the time to open it? Could be very time consuming.

[johnny.5]

did anyone actually ask their mummy ?

[Vagus]

We’re pretty much paperless and get very little post.
I’d employ someone to open everything if it became an avalanche and bin anything and everything which wasn’t official. Begging letters wouldn’t be a problem for me.
Next question? ;)

[JimF]

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/giving-away-money-well-is-very-hard-the-giving-pledge-turns-10-and-its-signers-are-richer-than-ever-2020-08-08

[Deskdiary]

I've often wondered this.

I'd be happy with what my dad used to call "eff you" money (although he didn't say 'eff'), in other words you have enough money in the bank to last the rest of your life, and possibly the life of your kids, and are not beholden to anybody.

If you have a billion in the bank (a thousand million pounds), I'd say it's pretty un-spendable, although I'd like to be in a position to give it a bloody good go.

People can amass as much wealth as they can, and use it as they choose, and bloody good luck to them in my view, and I'd never be one of those people who try to take the moral high ground and moan that they should be using the money for good causes; their money, their choice.

[Old_Geezer]

So many women, so little time...

[jno]

buy some politicians and maybe a seat in the House of Lords. How do you look in ermine?

[woofgang]

Chris Janson knows

[Bobbisox1]

I'd buy NUFC to keep it British and kick Mike Ashley's butt, buy one of the city centre office blocks that stand vacant and provide pods for the homeless, turn one of the floors to a large kitchen to provide one hot meal a day for them and pay people a wage to keep it clean and do the cooking ,a chunk would go to an animal charity ( particularly dogs) I'd make a lot of people happy by taking them on a luxury holiday and giving the a nice fat cheque while they're there........then spend,spend, spend
Seriously though, I would not like to be a billionaire( ss)

[BAKERS DOZEN]

We went out for a meal one April many years ago to celebrate my sister's engagement. There are six (3 boys 3 girls) of us so with partners there was a party of twelve. When it came time to pay the bill most of us would have just split the bill six ways and paid up but one sister argued that her husband hadn't had a starter and they'd had one round of drinks less than everyone else so she asked for a menu, worked out what their meal had cost and put that amount (to the penny) on the table. We knew she was tight but they both had really good jobs and just thought how petty it was. While we were having coffee at the end of the meal she announced that they had some news to tell us. I immediately thought she must be pregnant but no she told us that back in November the year before they had won £1,000,000 (yes a million) on the pools. This was about 35 yrs ago. We have since found out from someone who worked with her that about 15 yrs ago she won £45,000 on the lottery as part of a syndicate at work. She's never mentioned that one yet.

[Bobbisox1]

BD , one of my pet hates when you get someone quibbling over a restaurant bill, it's cringeworthy and embarrassing

[Old_Geezer]

Did each couple have 2 children each ? I'm all for splitting the bill if there wasn't a big discrepancy, but if one couple brought all 6, splitting it just 6 ways would be an issue.

[BAKERS DOZEN]

OG - not sure if I understand you. I am one of the three girls and then were our three brothers. Total of 12 people with our partners. Just six couples from the same family.