I went to band camp.
Thursday Night Football does a thing where AI highlights on the screen which player is likely to be the biggest factor in the play due to how the teams are lined up. It doesn’t seem to be very accurate. Anything like what is described in the poll would of course be against the rules.
I did inherit a decent amount of money when my mother died. Certainly not enough to live off of but enough to hopefully supplement my retirement so it will last.
Wasn’t sure how to classify YMRCIGBSA camp in addition to Scouting. Threw it into “Religious” for some reason or another.
I’ve never received any sort of formal inheritance in the sense that I was named in someone’s will. The most I got was being gifted a few random tchotchkes that belonged to my grandparents – a couple of Beanie Babies (Grandma got into the whole Beanie Baby collecting fad in the late 1990s) and the cowbell that used to hang on their back door. Nothing with any significant value other than sentimental.
I said I didn’t get an inheritance either, but similarly, I spent much of my time growing up with my best friend’s family, and they knew I admired a big, nicely-framed Cezanne print in their living room, and so when my friend’s dad passed away, my friend showed up with it. Quite moving.
And it’s hanging directly behind me right now!
My folks had a living trust. When Mom passed it went 80/20 to myself and my niece. Gave us a nice down on a new house. No idea what my niece did with her share.
I’ve never had a formal inheritance, but I had what I considered an informal inheritance some years ago. When my grandmother went into a nursing home she decided to give away all of her assets to her children and grandchildren. I used my portion to pay off a car loan.
I was in scouting, we went on several types of overnite or week long trips- mostly with fixed wooden floor tents, but some with our our smaller tents, and even “under the stars”.
The only overnight camping I did as a kid was with my Girl Scout troup at the Lazy J Ranch in Malibu (the canyon area, not the beach). It was a lot of fun, but we had cabins with indoor plumbing. I only did roughing-it camping as an adult. No campers in my family when I was a kid.
My younger sister and I used our inheritance from our mom to completely renovate our (at the time) 25 year old townhouse – top to bottom. Every surface touched. I also got $500 from one aunt, and $1000 from another. I’m pretty sure I either paid down bills or frittered it away.
I have not received any formal inheritence yet but my mother’s estate is currently in probate so the answer will change soon
Camping:
I’ve camped with family (car camping), in house and in backyard (friends and family friends), with scouts (hiking camping), and overnight summer camps in cabins away from family (cabins, central cooking facilities).
Inheritance:
Kinda-sorta. My parents are alive, and other than a few individual items of no real value, have not gotten anything from the estates of my grandparents, which weren’t particularly wealthy. My wife’s grandparents have passed, are they were a bit better off, and they’ve passed it down to their kids (including my M and FiL) and they gave a few thousand to my wife for various expenses and improvements.
I have been told by my parents that pending societal or economic collapse (which seems somewhat certain nowadays, but whatever) that I can expect a reasonably substantial inheritance from them (a few hundred thousand) after they’re deceased but I hope it’s another decade or so away (they’re in their 80s).
Never got any inheritance…yet. And with my mother’s torrential spending, it’s possible any inheritance I do get in the future will be greatly diminished.
I went to a camp for horse-crazy girls for two summers. Loved it. We lived in platform tents, so real beds, but canvas walls.
When Dad died I took 2/3 of my inheritance and bought a custom 2 horse gooseneck trailer. Still have it, and love that too.
Coincidentally I have a 2 goose horseneck trailer.
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My wife and I both received non-trivial amounts of money after our parents died, enough that we’ll likely have a comfortable retirement when the time comes.
However, I’d gladly have less in the bank today if we’d gotten to have them around longer.
I got a modest inheritance from my father. I used part of it to invest in my kids’ 529 college savings accounts. Did good enuf that neither of them have any college debt, which was a goal of ours when they were young. I feel like they are able to start their adult lives without that burden. Thanks, Dad!
On the advertising slogans: I vaguely remembered most of them, but I only identified three correctly.
I choose to interpret that as meaning that I am not a slave to crass commercialism.
As opposed to being old and senile.
When I was a kid I went to scout camp several times (once in the winter in Illinois, that pretty much sucked). Also a secularish camp in Michigan for a couple weeks over the summer.
My father passed away 10 years ago and I’d guess he had several million stashed away. He left behind my stepmom who inherited everything, good for her. She has five kids, three of them divorced daughters, so I bet I never see a penny.
When I smoked I was young and the world was my ashtray. Sorry.
I picked up my cigs when I was young. Didn’t worry about ashes, it’s like worrying about dandruff.
I thought I knew several more of the slogans, but I checked the key before posting; I had several of them wrong. I then only checked in the poll the ones which I got right.