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clambo says

12. Don't get unhealty.

Ah, ha ha best advice yet on getting rich in the US.

clambo says

12. Don't get unhealty. Stay active and not a couch potato. You need energy and health to go out and make money.

Uh, my Aunt was a big wig at Patagonia, the clothing company. She was extremely active, and basically her entire free time was spent climbing walls or climbing mountains. She had next to no body fat and in fantastic shape.

She died several years ago, in her early 40s, from a second bout of breast cancer. Never smoked, never did drugs, had no kids.

clambo says

Enjoy your million dollars. It will take you about 20 years or so.

Riiight.

Most of your other points either blame women for spending a guy's money or fail to acknowledge youthful stupidity.

Remember, Jobs died in his 50s. He didn't make it to 65. He was also a health nut by most accounts. Many others, who are far less well off, don't make it either.

thunderlips11 says

had no kids.

Doesn't not having kids present extra health risks later in life for women? I vaguely recall something about that.

It's interesting how different male & female biology is in small things. Like bone mass on women is added from inside outward, whereas in men it's the reverse. Then once menopause hits that stops, and they start losing bone much faster than men.

Jobs real problem was he tried to pretend he would magically get better and didn't do anything about his diagnosis for too long.

Vicente says

Doesn't not having kids present extra health risks later in life for women? I vaguely recall something about that.

Could be, now that you mention it, I do recall hearing something about that. Like Jobs, my aunt also delayed kemo by a few weeks, but she had already been through it before. Even had she run right in for it, the prognosis wasn't good given that the cancer returned so quickly and they didn't have much left to remove.

I don't want to give the impression that taking care of one's self is useless, just that shit happens sometimes even when you do.

clambo,

I like your list. There is probably some "tongue in cheek" humor there...but there's also a lot of truth to what you say.

Save $$$
Don't overspend
Resist debt
Don't buy things you don't need
Stay healthy
Buy used.

Now if we could just teach congress-critters the first four items on my list above. Oh well, so much for wishful thinking.

clambo says

Top success factor to becoming a millionaire:

Damn, I've been doing 14 of the 17 things on your list since I was 22, and I'm not proud of it. Well maybe 15 since Apple is in the S&P500.

http://www.f150online.coms/general-discussion/267069-now-illegal-go-sledding.html

sledding banned in Omaha.

http://www.debatepolitics.com/general-political-discussion/125509-bake-sales-illegal-massachusetts.html

Bake sales banned in MA.

http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/story?id=100640&page=1

Football prayer illegal in TX

http://www.zimbio.com/Flag+Etiquette/articles/11/Homeowners+Association+Bans+American+Flag

HOA bans american flag in AZ

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2011/07/15/young-girls-lemonade-stand-shut-down-midway-ga

Lemonade stand shut down in GA.

You liberal dummies are either not paying attention to the deterioration of America...or are actively supporting it.

Its the latter, isn't it?

Honest Abe says

not paying attention to the deterioration of America...or are actively supporting it.

Yawn. Others have pointed out that we would agree.

The thing is, in my view the single biggest problem is that we don't respect real debate or have enough intelligent conversations about what is going on.

You Abe are basically a poster boy for the dumbing down of political discourse and the right wing's penchant for boiling things down to stupid and evil little sound bytes to be consumed by the likes of CS, Bap and you, and many others who are even less perceptive.