Ahhhh....The Barenaked Ladies. What a great Canadian band. Their lyrics are so witty and humerous and just plain great. And I must say that their ditty, "If I Had a Million Dollars" is one of my all-time favorites. Would you agree? Whenever I hear this song, I crank up the volumn and shout (because I can't sing) along..."...I'd buy you a green dress..." and any other lyrics I can remember.I don't buy lottery tickets. I don't gamble, I don't play bingo, I don't do scratch and win and I don't understand spending your entire day, let alone your paycheque, in 7-Eleven playing Keno. I have occassionally bought a raffle ticket, but not for the chance to win, but to support whatever group is holding the raffle. It just seems like a waste of money to me. I always think about something tangible, and usually eatable that I can buy with that 1-2 dollars. But...I have always dreamed about winning big. In fact, for my husband and I, we make a game of it. We sit around and make all these elaborate plans about what we would do with the gadzillions of dollars we just won.
It is a lot of fun. He is much more pragmatic than I, but I don't just blow it on jewelery and clothes and houses.
Nope, my family would get a chunk, and my kids would be taken care of, not spoiled, but they would never have to worry about money. I would definitely travel, A LOT!!! And I wouldn't work, I would volunteer and be on committees and participate in a lot of events, but I wouldn't work. I would love to have a personal chef, not that I would never cook again, but it would be nice not to have to. I would work out a lot and read a lot. I would take my kids and see as much of the world as possible and they would have tutors. However, first, I would invest the majority of it and let the interest pay for all my frivolities. Frank tells me that is the way to do it. He is usually right about those types of things...
But...I want to know what you would do if you won the lottery. Let's make it 14 Million dollars. What would you do that you always dreamed you could do, but didn't have the money to do it? Would you go crazy for a little bit and just buy everything? Or would you be more conservative and just change a little?
Would you share with me?
Love Tanya
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I think you and I would spend similarly. I'd share it with family, pay off debts, then invest first and foremost. Then I'd live off the interest, do things like buy a house (one at home and a few abroad), I wouldn't work, and I'd also thus spend my time volunteering and supporting good causes. I'd travel, have babies and travel. I don't know if I'd get a personal chef. Maybe, but I think I'd enjoy cooking when I didn't have to worry about utilizing every moment of my day. (Though right now I may not be utilitizing my time wisely!) I'd buy new furniture, new couches (not that I'm not grateful for the one you gave us). I'd get boobs!
First, I would buy a Steinway model D, and one of those fancy art case pianos that I showed you that one time. Then I would buy Steinways and awesome instruments for quite a few of the people in the music department. There goes at least $2 million there, for all of the people I would buy instruments for.
Invest, which will eventually give me more money :).
Travel... I would make up a huge list, and spend about 15 years just traveling. I would probably take lots of people with me to:
Ireland
UK, Germany, France....the rest of Europe, so I could spend some time studying music history
definitely Italy
Australia
most of Africa
Fiji
China
Bolivia, Peru, Mexico....
Hawaii
then finally, I would drop you, Frank, and the kids off in Canada :)
Among this traveling, I would find some really smart foreign orphans and send them to college/ medicate the AIDS kids, etc. I would definitely do more than Oprah does.
Pass some money off to my relatives.
Buy a beach house, big boat, a ranch in Montana, and build a few more Clay-center-type buildings all over WV
Start a scholarship fund
...I think after all of that, I would have ran out of money.
Hmmmm 14 million. I'd start by sharing with family and friends. I would work to make the world a better place, for children especially. I would travel (I haven't really been too far) I would have a cook (cause I don't like to cook...time or no time)I would love to have a place to escape to ...like a place on the ocean or on a lake...anyway...I love that song...I always used to sing it to Clayton when he was a baby. Back to work today, I hope you are doing well Tanya... :-)
I'd go on a bender...
haha, jk...i just got off a graveyard shift and don't have the energy or sanity to answer this question just yet.
but a bender with all of my loved ones would definitely be a top priority :)
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