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If I Won The Lottery … My sister-in-law and I were talking the other day about the Lottery. We have over the years when ever we have bought the tickets, which isn’t often … what we would do with the money? Pay off the bills first … of course. Maybe a 2 week vacation to a beautiful beach … but then we always said we would invest the rest and live off the dividends. But in our conversation of late … we wonder when we got to the investing part, where would we put it?/Cis, Simple Mind. More here.
Question: After you paid your bills, how would you invest your money if you won the lottery?
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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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Stickman on March 09 at 5:41 p.m.
I doubt I would invest it. Maybe something simple to provide me with a simple life and let me do what I love. The rest, I would Truly give away.
Charlie on March 09 at 5:45 p.m.
Probably donate most of it since I conquered my “wants & needs” years ago.
hmoffsuite on March 09 at 5:57 p.m.
Stickman. I honestly believe your desire for the simple life is noble and sincere. But, I would think you might want to expand your simple life to include a couple of months in Hawaii for a few months of the year. You speak of your fondness for Hawaii quite a bit and yet you are not enjoying it at a time in your life when you might enjoy it the most. Having financial resources doesn’t preclude living a simple life. You might want to find a place or expand yours to provide a better ‘shop’ for doing your walking sticks. Maybe make sure you have a window room at the assisted living place later on in life. Frankly, a million bucks isn’t what it used to be. But, it could enable you to enjoy even more of the things you treasure.
hmoffsuite on March 09 at 6:06 p.m.
On the subject of the simple life ……
I read a book a number of years ago entitled “The millionaire next door”. A couple of professors wanted to find out how real millionaires actually lived. They got a list of millionaires and went out to see their lifestyles. They thought they would see nothing but Rolls Royces and Mercedes. Large mansions with huge swimming pools. But, when they actually found the millionaires, most lived in normal middle class neighborhoods. Most had a Ford or Chevy in the driveway and looked like just normal families. They were normal families. Most had opened a gas station when young or other small business. They were frugal all their lives and didn’t display their wealth or success. Just humble, hard working, thrifty folk. The professors were amazed what they found when they went to check out the millionaires and how they lived. So amazed, they wrote the book. Having wealth doesn’t have to dictate how one lives.
hmoffsuite on March 09 at 8:24 p.m.
Sort of looking for a response from Sickman on my first post above, fwiw.
hmoffsuite on March 09 at 8:25 p.m.
oops, Stickman, not Sickman. honest mistake
Stickman on March 09 at 8:27 p.m.
hmo: The simple life is a state of mind, not a reward of financial rewards. I have given that up many years ago, now my only goal is to do what I love in life. I have nothing, and I feel good about that, as everyone else will stress about the rest. I never think about going back to the islands, I have had my time there. My childhood was very special and I consider myself an Islander. The rest, I will leave to you and everyone else that strives for whatever they want in life.
Stickman on March 09 at 8:32 p.m.
hmo: I hope you come by sometime, and see what a simple life I actually lead. When you have nothing, everything else is a smile.
hmoffsuite on March 09 at 8:36 p.m.
Stickman. One thing I know for sure is this: Happiness doesn’t come from having what you want. I comes when you want what you have.
Stickman on March 09 at 8:46 p.m.
HMO: I have all I want. though my life is slowly coming to an end. I do what makes me happy, not what makes me rich. Richness is again, a state of mind. Everyone is racing around to make their life a statement of sorts, mostly to no end. I am going backwards in a sense, looking for the simple things that I remember as a youth. Of course I will never find that. but my journey has been very satisfactory of late.
JohnA on March 09 at 9:17 p.m.
Compared to most people, I’d say Stickman is the wealthiest of all. Call it a simple life, but I’ve known it to be a ‘self-actualized’ life, per Maslow.
It means that you have achieved all you need to from basic survival to having everything you need. One is self-actualized when they achieve something for themselves over and above that, such as running for election, like Walt Minnick, or serving on a local governmental board, like Charlie Nipp. Nothing in it for yourself except the knowledge that you’re doing something good for your fellow man, and that makes you feel good.
Stickman, my man, you’ve got that. Congrats to you from Deena and I. Hope to see you again soon.
Lynne on March 10 at 8:18 a.m.
I know so many people, and programs, in the community that are suffering through no fault of their own right now. My hand would fall off writing out anonymous money orders to those in need.
Stickman on March 10 at 9:16 a.m.
Thanks JohnA, you pretty much hit it.
toadman on March 10 at 9:25 a.m.
I’d probably do as Stickman would, were I to win the lottery. However, my chances of winning the lottery are very low, because I do not play the lottery. I don’t want to tax my hopes and dreams like that.
Stickman on March 10 at 9:29 a.m.
hmoffsiutte: I would love to be one of those simple millionaires living their life in peace and quiet. I have to find my own ways, as I never planned very well growing up and am basically left with nothing, except a passion for making things and giving them away and to make a meager living, which I do part time driving handicapped kids around. We live in such a high stress world these days, from what’s happening around us to how we go about our lives. My point was just that I try to keep it simple and slow down. The world goes by fast enough. If I could do my sticks every day of the year I would, and someday I will. Contentment again doesn’t mean having enough to get by, it’s more of how you feel about your life and hopefully smiling at the chapters behind you. The ones ahead are exciting for me, but like the thread talks about, I will do my best to keep it as simple as I can.