Every Tuesday and Friday night I have full optimism that I will win the lottery. I have yet to accomplish my optimistic feat. Unlike most people, I’m not looking to be extravagant. That sounds so strange, I know. Who wins the lottery and doesn’t plan to waste it? No, in fact, I do have a plan for the money I don’t even have.
1. Pay off my student loans and other debts, along with Michael’s and the rest of my family (aunts and the like included).
2. Buy a humble house less than a mile from my parents and furnish it with affordable furniture that will last for years. Put at least 20 years of current property taxes in a high-interest fund to provide for us. Oh yeah, move us and kitties to house.
3. Take about $50,000 and take the year off to really focus on a freelance career heavily. Likely buy a new Mac to help make that easier.
4. Donate significantly large sums of money to each of the following: The Cincinnati Zoo African Savannah Project, Clifton Library Project, The Bronx Zoo, my grandmother’s library, Diabetes Research.
5. Probably before anything else, give a healthy and ambitious portion of it to my parents. They deserve it. Hell, it probably still wouldn’t be what they deserve but it would be a start.
6. Put a nice portion of it away in low-risk saving opportunities to provide for our future. And get married.