I sit looking at my two one dollar bills, trying to decide whether to buy a Powerball ticket for tonight's $500 million drawing. It would be my first Powerball ticket ever. Years ago I bought a one dollar piece of a lottery ticket every month for a year and gave up after ONE win of one dollar, which meant that over the course of the year I dropped eleven dollars down a sewer grating. I would have had more fun losing at Monopoly. With play money.
Powerball is selling a dream. Whatever YOUR dream may be. A dream of fairy tale riches.
Of course I ask myself, what would I do with $500 million??? (Before taxes.)
The answer is: I don't know.
I own my own home, free and clear. I have no debts and no dependents. I have money in the bank to cover, as Agatha Christie's Poirot said, "my needs and my caprices." I am content with my life as it is. I've travelled to all the places I wanted to see in times of less turmoil and less airport aggravation. $500 million would present more problems than it would solve, and it wouldn't buy me a happier life than the one I already have.
I think I'll pass.
Penny Pincher
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