Well That Didn't Work
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I'm on the bus heading home and daydreaming. My friend Will (one of a very select few people I still speak to from high school, by choice I might add) and I were talking a few days ago about his away message which read something along the lines of :
$1,000,000 on friends' education
$1,000,000 on cars and other things for friends
$1,000,000 on bulletproof vests for the troops
$1,000,000 on subscriptions to Playboy for the troops
$1,000,000 on my dream house
Accounting for taxes, let's say that $205,000,000 jackpot is reduced to $55,000,000. I've spent $5,000,000...I think the $50,000,000 I'd have left over is enough to live on for the rest of my life.
Will had bought a lottery ticket, if you hadn't gathered. Like I said, I was daydreaming... if I won the lottery (that gave me $55,000,000) I'd...
...pay for my, Adi, and my sister's education ($500,000)
...buy each of us a car ($100,000, maybe more knowing Adi's expensive taste in cars)
...buy my mom her dream house ($1,000,000)
...take my family on vacation (I can't see this being more than $5,000 for an all out, all inclusive, super cool vacation somewhere)
...give a few million to various charities ($2,000,000-$5,000,000)
...buy my dad the farm he wants for all the dogs he wishes he had (my mom's dream house would be on that property. $500,000ish)
...invest some in stocks, bonds, etc, etc ($2,000,000-$5,000,000)
...save the rest (about $30,000,000, give or take)
I don't think that's living lavishly. College, cars (for the record, I just want your basic $20,000 Jetta, not an Escalade like my sister or a Aston Martin, Porsche, Lamborghini, Saleen, Jaguar or Bentley like Adi'd want) and a place for my parents to enjoy...that vacation is the only thing I'd be splurging on, and I probably spend only what was necessary, except for a visit to the spa for me, my mother, and my sister...
I think I'll buy a lottery ticket or two tomorrow. Comments ()