How to Lose Everything: A Mostly True Story by Philipp Mattheis
Release Date: July 23, 2013
About the Book
Jonathan, Sam, Schulz, and Eric usually spend their summers skateboarding at the park and dreaming about the time when they’ll finally move out of the suburbs. But in the summer of 1994 the four teenagers find a small fortune hidden inside an abandoned house, and that changes everything. The money was a dream come true, but it couldn’t last. Stress, drugs, and dwindling funds raise the stakes and also raise some serious questions about the future. Eighteen years later, Jonathan returns to that life-changing summer to tally up the cost of that discovery and explain how one broken dream led to a totally renewed sense of purpose.
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Give ten percent to my church, take my friends to Fiji, buy a house and a horse. True story. 🙂
Hmmm….. I want to say I will do something good and noble like with it, like donate it to a charity…..but, the truth is, I would probably spend it all at the mall….
If I stumbled upon a fortune, I would pay off all my student loans, build my dream house with a stable full of horses, purchase the property I would like for my nonprofit, give some to family, and donate money to my college alma mater.
I so want horses too.
I’d give some to my parents, buy a nice house and car and probably save the rest for the future
I’d would give half to my parents and the other half for my future
Put in away for my future and my children’s future!
I’d keep it of course and use it to finance my education.
Im lame I would save it
i would share with my family
Mhhhm, I would probably donate 20% of it to World Vision and save the rest of it for the future.
i would first pay off all of my bills, then I would quit my job with a quickness, and take my son and my cats, and go travel the world….I would donate lots of my fortune to animal charities, and the IRS i’m sure.
Buy a nice house for me and my honey. Give my parents some money. Donate some to the American Diabetes Association.
Buy a hobby farm and set up a rescue/shelter (no-kill)
Build a library in my house 🙂
If I were to gain a fortune I Would create something meaningful to change the world for the better.
I’m pretty sure I’d use it toward paying off all my school loans 😛
I would buy books and then donate the rest to charity! 😀
If I stumbled upon a small fortune, I would probably give it to a family I know in need, an orphanage or to an organization that gives books and stuff to lesser developed schools. If I had extra, I would buy myself a chocolate bar.
Pay off my house.
Buy all the books on my TBR list! Or at least most of them. There are quite a few and even a small fortune may not be able to buy them all.
Put a down payment on a house
pay off the debts!
I would save, send my kids to college, buy a new home, and donate to lots to various public educational institutions.
Buy more books.. ^.^
Probably save it… then spend it on a lot of things in my future.
I would pay off some stuff, give money to my family, and if there was any left I would donate it.