Yeah, the problem with the million dollars thing is that, after taxes, let's say that you'll have $500,000.
I've decided that even if I won as low as $300K in the lottery (lottery winnings are taxfree in Can.) I would quit my job. Not forever, but the win would let me pay off my mortgage (my only real debt besides a little bit of credit card debt) and live for a couple of years and maybe go back to school or start a little business. Once the mortgage was paid off, I don't need a lot of money to live modestly. It wouldn't give me a life of leisure, but it would get me out of the rat race.
It wouldn't take much money for me to quit my job! Although if it were like $100K, I'd have to get a new one pretty quickly, after paying off debt and etc.
Truly, it is a modest amount of money compared to a million dollar lottery win, but first the severance pay and then the Unemployment benefits extension so that I can go to school fulltime for a year feels like such a tremendous gift, so much so that I don't seem to be able to stop talking about it for long.
Eventually I'll start grumbling about school, I'm sure. Hopefully, the shiny will have worn off before I've driven all my friends away with School Loves Carrots.
Anyway, back to my point: the amount of money is only somewhat correlated to the amount of happiness it buys.
I really think that money just buys options.
Happy Birthday, Nora!
I also think it's Vonnie's birthday, and so although she doesn't post in Natter ever, I say Happy Birthday, Vonnie!
I made the pie anyway, so I'll just be fashionably late. The big question is whether I should stop and buy vanilla ice cream on the way. Whattaya think?
options = happiness
pie = yum
pie + ice cream = happy joy yum
I don't really have anything to say, do I?
It's funny, though, 'cause money sometimes doesn't buy jack. The amount of money we had before is so much more than the amount of money we have now. But we were pants at managing it before, so it was always gone and we always felt poor. But having less meant we had to pay attention to what we were spending, and how. We shifted to a small allowance of spending money, but I now always feel like I have plenty, because I have cash in my pocket to buy an extra coffee or to save for whatever.
Probably if I won something I'd pay off the house-to-be, and then invest the rest in something with a dividend. Whatever less I had to earn each year could go into that fund. Then step 3, profit!
Also I think that ita shouldn't censor any complaining and Theo shouldn't censor any school loves carrots. It's what we're here for! Also then I don't have to censor any building a house! In case you didn't know! I am! Building!
And then we can repeat ourselves. Because that's what we do. And that's how community is formed. With our families, we tell the same stories over and over again. It's our common bond, our shared history. I don't see why we shouldn't have the same conversations here round and round. We had different things for lunch today! We have a shared history of cilantro opinions! That's just what it is.
Err.
Happy Birthday, Nora!
Happy (possible) Birthday, Vonnie!
