Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for November 04, 2024

Give it to a multi-billionaire.

This is adorable! My husband and I used to do something like this, but not nearly so fanciful.

Buy the local abandoned racetrack. Restore it. Hold weekly Segway and scooter races.

Beer that comes in bottles with a whistle built into the top!

Dark brown toothpaste!

Poodle-on-a-stick!

I like the idea of an island for books lovers.

If I won the lottery I would donate it to labs that search for cures for cancer, HIV, diabetes and hypertension.

My vote is for an island for book lovers.

Lottery used to be a buck. Now, one is going to $5 for a single draw.

… or to one who CLAIMS he’s a billionaire.

For me, half the fun of winning the lottery would be giving much of it a way to needy causes. Love my alma mater but they don’t need any more money.

Depends on how large an amount. Family first, but then I’d build nice one bedroom apartments with in apartment laundry for homeless and disabled Veterans in every state. Well, maybe not TX but I’d help the ones in TX move to a different state. (Day before elections perhaps coloring my answer)

My reasons for buying tickets has changed over the years ( hey, I just won $3 two weeks in a row! ) but I have always wanted to be a philanthropist. Also, so my 50 year old son can get out of a horrible job.

Love it :D

I truly enjoy having these mega-dollar winning conversations with someone with an imagination. I have to admit I’m surprised when such a conversation arises some people get a blank expression on their face and say “I dunno”. Perhaps that indicates one of two things…either they are already so rich they don’t know what they’d do with the extra money, or they are already so satisfied and happy with their life they’ve never thought of wanting anything more than what they already have.

Not another Star Wars movie. And who needs a robot to make chocolate milk? It’s right in the fridge.

First on the practical side; hire a tax lawyer & a bodyguard.

If I won the lottery? Nothing fanciful like the comic. Pay tithes, and thank God for the blessing. Pay off my mortgages and loans. Buy a newer used vehicle. Then, I might do something fanciful, like go on a road trip to see all the places I lived (7 states in all).

She had me at an island for book lovers.

we were looking for some place where anyone that knew us could not find us, including family, hey as long as your dreaming

They got it right!

I like Rose’s robot.

I forget when but it was decades ago maybe 1980, my then girlfriend won a substantial amount of money – $25,000 for what I cannot recall but she donated it all to the Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles. They saved here when she was born premature and was not going to make it according to her mom.

I bet, musings on spending the lottery amount can reflect the darker persona.

I love it. Mine: First Zero-G playground in orbit.

When I was a child I got an allowance – started at a penny a week, by the end of high school when it stopped and I got a part time job (and allowance stopped) while going to college it was $1US.

My parents are both accountants and thought it important that I knew how to manage money, so I was taught to do so. I had a job in a local home goods store (in their fine jewelry dept) while in college. I got a job when I got my bachelors degree working for a different accountant and went to grad school. (Parents, loans and scholarship paid for college.) I kept saving most of my money.

When we got married I would save a good percentage of our combined incomes. When husband, in his mid 50s, got burned out at work I ran the numbers several times and suggested he take a leave of absence from work to rest up and decide what he wanted to do. He ended up quitting his job. I kept working and we made handcrafted items and sold them at local crafts shows.

He constantly worries about money. He is a “spender” – not on expensive items, but if he sees it he would buy it before he quit his job so I had not been telling him about our finances. He recently started in again in a panic about money and I finally showed him the numbers – which, pleasantly, shocked the heck out of him as he had no idea of what I had saved up while he was working. We are mostly living on Social Security and interest and my very small accounting income and keeping the savings for emergencies.

We don’t live lavishly, but if he wants something I can generally figure out how to deal with buying it without spending too much money.

I realize we had a luck when younger – but planning and not buying wasteful things (especially on my part) has helped a great deal.