Gang green
One of my uncles is loaded, no I mean seriously he is Mr. Bank. He sold a regional cable company that he owned (and built) to Paul Allen’s company Vulcan Enterprises in the late 1990’s. He had worked very hard to build the company so when it sold it was good to see the little guy rake in some cash for once. No one knows how much he sold it for as it was a private company but it was at least in the low seven figures and probably a lot more.
As soon as he sold it he realized he no longer had any thing to do, so he decided to start taking classes in an area of interest and then put the skills he learned into action. But he did this a little differently than most of us would or could. Example: He went to wooden boat school for a year and then built his own 50 foot sailboat. He learned about cabinet making and bought 200k worth of equipment for his personal shop, to date he has only made cabinets for his own house some 6 years later.
And this all leads to his new venture, he went to school to learn about greenskeeping. You might have already figured this out by now but he has now just finished his 9 hole golf course on his property. The first nine of a planned 18. The course has sand traps, a full state of the art drainage irrigation system, and even tee boxes. The odd thing is, well he hates golf. Hates people that like to golf. Thinks its a waste of real estate. So why did he build it? Because he needs something to occupy his time and a way to spend his money. He is not the type of guy that will ever buy a Rolls or even a beach house in Hawaii, he drives a VW van that has about 400k miles on it.
And I am sure he is not alone in this lifestyle, there are people all across this land that have no idea how to spend their bank vaults full of money. They feel guilty spending it without having a practical reason and something to show for it.
So I have decided to start an new endeavor, Unemployed Ben’s money spending school. I will teach these lucky bastards how to spend money guilt free, ya know just like Republicans do.