Prompt: If you found one million dollars in the morning and had to spend it by nightfall, what would you do with the money?
You wake up tomorrow morning to find all your plans have been cancelled for the next seven days and $10,000 on your dresser. Tell us about your week.
You’ve inherited $5 million, with instructions that you must give it all away — but you can choose any organizations you like to be the beneficiaries. Where does the money go? You’re given a plot of land and have the financial resources to do what you please. What’s the plan?
You’ve inherited $5 million, with instructions that you must give it all away — but you can choose any organizations you like to be the beneficiaries. Where does the money go? You’re given a plot of land and have the financial resources to do what you please. What’s the plan?
So I’m doing NABLOPOMO again (National Blog Posting Month). The challenge is to post every day in November on your blog. Yup. I was already doing it for the year, anyway, so seems like a no-brainer, especially since you get prompts for 5 days of the week. The one(s) above sound interesting so here goes:
1. First of all, if I ‘found’ a million dollars I’d wonder how I’d know I had to spend it all by nightfall. That seems kind of weird, but I digress (and I’m good at that!)… I suppose if there’s no other restrictions I’d pay off all of our bills, buy a couple of new cars, pay off our parents’ bills, and donate the rest to our church/favorite charities.
2. Ten grand is a lot of money. It’s also more realistic than finding a million dollars that you have to spend in one day. I’m guessing I’d buy some groceries and goodies for the kids and discuss with my husband best how to use the $10,000. My guess is that we’d pay off a bill of some sort to ease our budget.. and that our week would go on as normal (and fortuitous-less) as possible. The freeing up of a budget item over the next ongoing months would be handy, though!
3. Inheriting is interesting, we don’t have any family with money, so that seems weird, and anyone that knows us knows that we’d take it seriously…so I guess we’d choose charities that the person enjoyed and ones that we do: hunger relief or church charities that are personal to us or that hit a broad stream around us, and have no ‘main’ set-up that could funnel it away as has been done before. I’ve worked with leader dogs for the blind, and know that habitat for humanity could do a world of good in our communities (the people have to give back, etc) as well as food pantries or church activity type things or scholarships that would be ongoing for a significant amount of time and specify academic aptitude and/or need.
4. The plot of land is probably the easiest. A new school. With no sucky government regulations, where my kids could attend and be at whatever grade level they need to be at, and not grouped by age. Kind of like Montessori meets common sense. Good teachers paid well for good performance (their own, not the kids’ performance). Outreach meetings for parents with younger kids. Mobile health clinics to visit if need be (or a good nurse on staff). All around awesomeness!
You are too level headed! lol I think you need to have a blip of fun in there, even if it’s just going out to dinner, lol.
Probably an Insurance product… like an annuity. Boom! Then I could use it later. hee hee
For a million dollars, I’d probably do much the same as you – pay the bills, replace what needs replacing, buy craft supplies and set up a studio in the back yard, give some to my brothers and my church.
With 10 Grand, I’d fly my family to England, stay in hotels and do the grand touristy thing and visit family. For me, my husband and my son, that would probably be right at 10 grand…
5 Million to give away? Battered women’s shelters, animal shelters, our local homeless mission, Habitat for Humanity, my church (in no particular order). A million each. I could make a big difference in a few places.
Land? I’d create the biggest community garden ever!