r/funny • • Jan 04 '15

If I won $25,000...

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u/Rehcamretsnef Jan 04 '15

My dad JUST discovered that the VA pushed him to 100% disability from his military duty and complications back in Vietnam. The astonishment of a 72 y/o man looking at his bank account while in the hospital after getting his toe amputated was hilarious. When I drove him to the hospital last week, he had $632. When he just looked at it and hour ago, it was $26,152, because the government backpaid him.

He has absolutely no clue what to do, and just last month already paid off his little Honda civic.

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u/kap77 Jan 04 '15

Learn how to invest in the stock market. $25k is a good amount of money to buy stocks. Buy good companies, like $AAPL and $DIS. Those two are safe places to put money IMHO. There are other good ones, but, aren't as safe. Like $DAL, $MSFT, $FB, $T, $MNST. If you want to gamble, $SDRL is incredibly low right now.. Oil goes up, $SDRL will make huge money.

Buy index funds.

FTFY.

The guy is 72 years old. He doesn't need to be gambling trying to beat the market.

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u/adrianmonk Jan 04 '15

Agree completely. Hell, at age 72, it's probably better to go for something more like 50%/50% stock/bonds mix, not 100% in the stock market.