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July 07, 2009 |
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Top Ten Ways to Get Rich
FOUND by Kate Kelly
in Akumal, Mexico
I found this in a Yucatan Peninsula guidebook that was left in our vacation house in Akumal, Mexico. Apparently the beach atmosphere stimulated the economic savvy of this tourist.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Drive-in theater owner!! My first job was in a snack bar of a drive-in theater. I earned $1.37 per hour. At one point there were unions picketing at the gate. I was in high school and had no idea what that was about. Apparently the drive-in theater owner was getting rich.
With the state of the economy I think the best prospect is comic book author. The last of the 10 was "boy wonder"
@ Clover -- apparently drive-in theater owner *was* the best way to go, as after that the author didn't need numbers 7-10.
We still have a double drive-in theater.(Wichita, Ks) It is packed most every night. On weekends they turn cars away. You can still get in if you have blankets or lawn chairs and a neck like a giraffe. It's a bit of a stretch to look straight up from the "lawn". Lots of fun...and you can bring chairs and coolers full of your favorite beverage. Don't be a dumbass and all is well.
I remember my first drive thru movie was "The Outsiders" I pass by where it was everyday..it's weird..dilapidated screens still there with a gas rig..so sad it is gone.
Yeah, "#4 Stock" can do it for you. Maybe some good Black Angus or even Texas Longhorns - unless the vegetarians take over.
Hmmm, maybe it's "stock" as opposed to "Formula One" or "Drag".
"Stock" but not "Pillory"?
Either way, Kermit's definitely on track with this one: we don't need no stinking 7-10!
WHAT ARE THE OTHER 4!!!... i need to know.
and why do you think his name is kermit?
out of the choices, i'd pick comic book author.
I have happy memories of the drive-in, watching "Sleeping Beauty" in my jammies, eating popcorn. Good times.
I'm curious to know how one becomes rich doing "environmental" though.
7) Pick the Powerball winning numbers
8) Rob a place with lots of gold using nerve gas and a chick named Pussy Galore.
9) Carry out an elaborately planned heist involving a helicopter and an armor car
10) Find a case filled with a million dollars
I'm so glad someone's done some solid research on this.
#3-Good Luck!
#5-Depends.
I always thought that the easiest way to make $ (as long as you had capital at first to buy it) would be owning a parking lot! I mean all you would have to do is hire some booth people, and maybe do some maintenance every 3 or 4 years.
Right? If anyone has any knowledge of parking lot-owning and if it really is as easy as I think, please let me know! Maybe there is something I am missing. I don't actually want one (or have any capital i.a.e.,) but I have always been curious.
I used to love the drive ins. Then one day my mom confided that they used to have porn drive ins and her and dad used to get busy in the back of the car. I've never looked at them the same way since.
I have 6 books complete with instructions on how to get rich using each of these ways. You too can be rich, for 6 easy payments of $500.00.
Wait! If you call now, I'll double the offer for just another $500.00. That's $3,500.00 for a lifetime of $$$$$$$. An amazing offer! A $10,000.00 value for only $3,500.00
Call quickly, folks. The books are selling fast and time's runninng out.
7. Take out a very large insurance policy on your spouse "coincidentally" right before the big accident or mystery illness.
#6...great idea, but would be seasonal. Then you would have to, like, do #3 or #5.
I always wanted to be an environmental. Maybe a big oak tree....
Love the back story on this find. Thanks, Kelly!
I am wondering if the writer of this note was considering business ventures in the Yucatan Peninsula
No wonder real estate was at the top of the list.
I just find it interesting how it was left at a vacation spot. They probably had been drooling over the people who live in places like that year round, made this, then got bored doing it???
Sarah in Chi-town,
That is seriously creepy!
7. Get a job in a profession other than librarianship.
8. Stop buying things.
9. Keep poking him (Rich, that is).
10. Build a time machine, go back in time to get famous people to write down their motivations for unexplained actions, or just observe and record answers to what are now historical mysteries (like how did Stonehenge get built?), then come back to the present time with the evidence, write a book and become famous, rake in the money from the movie deals.
Ten ways to lose money.
Or maybe I'm reading this wrong. Who is "Rich" and why do you have to get him? Leave the guy alone!
Marie, there is such a thing as liability insurance. The cost of commercial property is astronomical, as well. Also, location, location, location!
Comic book author?
Fooch, your comment literally made me LOL.
Big oak tree....? Classic.
Thanks for making my day.
Porn drive-ins? That's just silly.
@ Phoebe Muse - Interestingly enough, when I go see a drive-in movie, it's the same drive-in where they filmed "The Outsiders".
I saw Planet of the Apes at a drive-in when I was a kid. Charlton Heston was hot back then.
To make a parking lot profitable, you have to own a sizeable piece of land, vacant lot or what have you. In places where parking is at a premium, vacant land of a practical size usually is, too. So unless you already own a chunk of real estate, it's not really that big of a money-spinner. And most people would sell the land if they had it, to a developer, for a larger piece of money in a hurry, rather than wait for the inital investment on a parking lot to produce. You might end up better off in the long term, but you have to be patient.
Hmmm.... Sir Richard Branson (Virgin Airlines) says the way to become a millionaire is:
-- Take a billion dollars
-- Start - or purchase - an airline
-- Soon you will be a millionaire!!
(See? More research on the subject!)
Hmmm.... a parking lot isn't awfully EnvironMental.. That's how I convince some foot-draggers that people DO contribute to global warming (take a field or orchard; convert to a parking lot; temp raises 10 degrees!)
MY old home drive-in is a flea market on (non-rainy-weather) weekend days.
It multi-tasks!
AND - it could function as a parking lot on other days (providing there was a demand for parking in that area). Maybe with a shuttle bus to the beach?
MY old home drive-in is a flea market on (non-rainy-weather) weekend days.
It multi-tasks!
AND - it could function as a parking lot on other days (providing there was a demand for parking in that area). Maybe with a shuttle bus to the beach?
Thx for explaining about the parking lots.
Porn drive-ins!?! WOW. Mind-boggling.
Yep. When our local drive in was in its last throws, the began showing porn (Behind The Green Door, etc.; late 70s stuff). As teens, we would park in the street of the crappiest trailer park in town and watch. I'll say it for you. "Creepy".
ENVIRONMENTAL... what?
Whoever this is forgot the best, most time-honored method of getting rich. Marry it.
Depending on your character, you may wish to marry an old rich man/woman, get them to change their will, then after a suitable period of time passes (say, a year) kill them with wonderful sex.
7. Hold the planet for ransom with anti-matter bomb.
8. Televangelist/dope dealer. (Even if you get pinched by the FBI or Federales , you can still turn state's evidence , write a blatantly self-serving tell-all book, and do "Oprah.")
9. Roguish, ruggedly handsome tin pot dictator with a flair for the eccentric.
My first drive-in movie was "Space Balls." Drive-ins rule because you can smoke weed, engage in fellatio/cunnilingus, eat or drink whatever you want, and simultaneously watch a movie that's been out for a while. My parents made good money with "environmental," but the rest of this list is bullshit. Comic book writers don't get rich per se, it's more like "free heroin and toys" and "easy sex with homely fangirls." Holy not very glamorous, Batman.
I almost forgot 10: CEO of a chain of gimicky "casual dining" restaurants.
I find this very funny , Cause at this time all those are not good avenues to get rich.
No one is buying houses and who ever is selling they are loosing .
Taxes under the new government regime will kill all Businesses If you need to pay close to 50% of what you make they why do it at all.
Also people are not spending $ on entertainment
Look up on CNN ( porn industry lost 30% to 50% in sales )
At least he/she is trying to make better life for them self