I had a friend (she died a couple of years ago) who had some oil stock from the '60's, (standard Oil) she got them in a divorce and thought them worthless, you know a couple a grand. she paid no attention to them and when she died, her son inherited them. turns out there was 189,000 worth of stock which he promptly sold and went on a spending spree. He was also a speed freak and it took him about two years to be completely broke and homeless, he bought a new corvette, wrecked it, sold his mothers house, another 80,000, and proceeded to wreck his life. I guess money is not for everyone, by the way he was a gambler and we live in Vegas if that helps. I heard through the grapevine he was playing with $1,000 chips, don't take long to lose that way!