Are you a millionaire? There's a 1 in 125 chance!

[kpgclark]

From CNN's site:

After taking a bruising in the past few years amid the stock market swoon, one in 125 people in the United States could call themselves a millionaire in 2003, up 14 percent from a year earlier, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing a report conducted by Merrill Lynch and Capgemini.

That's about 0.8 percent of the U.S. population.

I find that surprising. Do you?

 

[HollyJoy]

I'm definately not part of the lucky few! Bummer! lol

 

[oogieboogie]

Sorry, not a millionaire here, just a pennyaire, cause that all I gots... pennies.

 

[dianeschlicht]

LOL! Millionaires are a "dime a dozen" these days!

 

[2angelsinheaven]

of course I'm also a liar.... Oh how I wish though!

 

[MAC3]

High Hopes here! Hoping for that lottery to come through, then I'll post again!

 

[flaps]

In Monopoly money.

 

[cynsaun]

I will be as soon as I find the perfect fertilizer for the money tree that I am growing in my backyard!

 

[Bob Slydell]

I don't know -- I've never figured out our net worth, but maybe we qualify?

 

[dianeschlicht]

Now for a more serious answer...I suspect more are "millionaires" than think they are. If you added up all your assets including your house, I suspect many would come in far above the 7 figure mark. It depends a bit on what part of the country you live in, but with the AVERAGE home being around $275,000, that puts a lot of folks in the ballpark. Around here, a small rambler or townhome is worth that, so anyone in the "burbs" is going to come out with a house closer to the $1,000,000 range.

 

[ladycollector]

That is, If your home is payed for and you don't rent.

Btw- Im not a millionaire, I wish! Not even close! LOL.. But there are ALOT and I mean alot around here.

 

[monkeyboy]

So me must have a ton of them here at the DIS

Maybe we could add that to taglines

DIS Millionare

 

[missypie]

I suppose that if we sold our house and furniture and cars and liquidated every retirement account and every college savings account and didn't have to pay taxes on any of it, we could get there.

 

[cynsaun]

Originally posted by monkeyboy
So me must have a ton of them here at the DIS

Maybe we could add that to taglines

DIS Millionare

I want THAT tagline!

 

[robinb]

I'm sure if we didn't buy all those DVC points and didn't take so many WDW vacations in the last 7 years, we's be pretty darn close .

 

[monkeyboy]

Originally posted by cynsaun
I want THAT tagline!

its always give me give me give me with you people isn't it!

 

[Bob Slydell]

Originally posted by monkeyboy
its always give me give me give me with you people isn't it!

Well, of course -- how else do you think most people get to be a millionaire?

 

[Roemama1]

Originally posted by cynsaun
I will be as soon as I find the perfect fertilizer for the money tree that I am growing in my backyard!

You have one of those, too? My DH has one planted right in our backyard, too. The funny thing is though, it must be the top secret "invisible" species.

 

[onecoolmama]

Originally posted by Bob Slydell
Well, of course -- how else do you think most people get to be a millionaire?

You know..not all of us are gimme gimme gimme

hey bob..can you give me a.....

 

[cynsaun]

Originally posted by monkeyboy
its always give me give me give me with you people isn't it!

I'm sure I don't know WHAT you are talking about!