If I won the lottery…
Day 23 of 365 days. 342 days left to go.
Friends,
What would I do if I won the lottery? Now this is a serious question that requires serious thought. There needs to be charts, stastics, draw graphs, a financial advisor, and a new bank account established.
But off the top of my head, here’s my list:
Pay off the motorcycles, boat, truck, and car. Don’t get me wrong; I’m going to miss the pleasant woman who calls me once a month to tell me I’m 3 hours late on my truck payment. She and I have become good friends over the last year. She has two young children and a husband who lets her buy two new books a month. I think she was the first to buy a paperback of my new book. Such a nice lady.
The boat has become a lawn decoration since we moved to Washington. It just sits there and reminds us of a time when we could afford to fill it up with fuel and hit the waterways. If it’s paid off, we could afford to fill it once a month. That would be cool.
I would pay off my credit cards. I’m not sure if they will stop emailing about all the great ‘incentives’ to spend money. 10% off of Flower.com roses if I spend at least $1,200.00 in one month. Or $0.005 off gas if I go to the one gas station that doesn’t exist in Washington. Or the credit card that offers to let me fly first class, one way, between 25 September and 29 September if I spend $6,000 in one month. Great discounts! Well worth the 9.8% interest rate.
I would have paid off my parents’ house and cars – but they did that already. So I would get my mom a new bookshelf and my dad a bike lift. And a lifetime subscription to canned chicken. They eat it every night in salad, so I would save them at least $5.00 a week. You know, the gold star treatment.
I would pay off my sister’s car. And buy her a couch. Not that it would fit in her overpriced, outdated apartment that costs as much as all my car payments – but it’s the thought that counts.
I would buy a home that fits my husband’s reptiles, gaming systems, and tools. I would make sure that it had a ‘he-shed’ for my son’s gym that currently has taken over my garage and an art studio. I would have an office for my desk and all my books so I don’t have to search four different rooms for one book. I still have 15 books that I can’t find because I stored them somewhere ‘safe’.
Of course, I would donate. That’s a given. To a museum for me, an art museum for Kekoa, and a reptile zoo for Nick.
The rest? I would leave it in a high-interest savings account, and there it would sit until the IRS taxed me to ying-yang because no American should be wealthy or live comfortably these days. Maybe they can finally get out of debt. I’m sure they’ll use the money for something trivial like installing a swimming pool or tennis court. Maybe sleeper chairs in Congress because God knows they aren’t doing anything like approving budgets.
So there we go- my dreams if I win the lottery. It would be beautiful. I would finally be able to go to the gas station without playing Russian roulette with credit cards to pay for a tank of gas to drive to work to pay for a tank of gas.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde
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