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<blockquote data-quote="RonJohn" data-source="post: 815542" data-attributes="member: 2426"><p>Good for him.</p><p></p><p>There are several examples of living so far below a person's means that it is probably pushing things to far. Probably the most extreme that I know if is a story I remembered from long ago, and looked it up. The article I read at the time discussed this couple in more detail. If I remember correctly, they lived in a row house in Philadelphia. They drove a few years old Cadillac. The lady was a member of the neighborhood gardening club. The man died, and then a few years later the woman died. She left $1 million to the gardening club, whose members told the reporter I read that the weren't aware that the couple had $1million. In the article I linked to, it describes the couple telling the director of a science history organization that they were putting the organization in their will. He politely thanked them. When she died, the organization received more than $100 million. They started investing with Warren Buffet in the 50s. The couple's net worth when she died in 1998 was over $750 million, but nobody knew about it. (not really nobody because Berkshire Hathaway did know)</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-07-13-9807140087-story.html[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RonJohn, post: 815542, member: 2426"] Good for him. There are several examples of living so far below a person's means that it is probably pushing things to far. Probably the most extreme that I know if is a story I remembered from long ago, and looked it up. The article I read at the time discussed this couple in more detail. If I remember correctly, they lived in a row house in Philadelphia. They drove a few years old Cadillac. The lady was a member of the neighborhood gardening club. The man died, and then a few years later the woman died. She left $1 million to the gardening club, whose members told the reporter I read that the weren't aware that the couple had $1million. In the article I linked to, it describes the couple telling the director of a science history organization that they were putting the organization in their will. He politely thanked them. When she died, the organization received more than $100 million. They started investing with Warren Buffet in the 50s. The couple's net worth when she died in 1998 was over $750 million, but nobody knew about it. (not really nobody because Berkshire Hathaway did know) [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-07-13-9807140087-story.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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