So far, I just haven’t been able to afford the good ones.
Pay for a medical procedure my husband needs but we can’t afford (and insurance won’t cover).
Pay off massive medical bills.
Pay off mortgage and car.
Adopt more abandoned animals.
Start a fund for diabetic animals, giving financial support to their families.
Buy more books.
Establish myself as a person people could ask for help if they ever needed it.
Julie
Don’t think I haven’t been planning just this.
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Visit a financial planner and immediately sock enough away so that I could live off the interest at my current salary + 50% + COLA for the rest of my life.
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Pay off all my outstanding debts - student and car loans.
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Pay off my parents’ and brothers’ debts. I’m thinking my older bro with the $50K/year law school bill would be pretty happy.
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Teach out the year and discuss with the administration the possibility of my teaching half-time the next year with no salary. They could spend the money on something else.
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As soon as the school year was over and I had the time, plan and build my own house up in the mountains. Straw bale, solar, and other goodies with a studio and whatever else I could think of.
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TRAVEL. Visit all my friends, take a tour of the US, Europe, maybe Africa.
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Set up my parents in a comfortable retirement and my foster sister with enough to cover her until she figures her head out.
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Set up education funds and trusts for relatives and friends’ kids.
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Throw a really big party and invite EVERYONE!

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Start setting up charitable foundations and donating money to causes I support. Definitely have something for the kids in this small town - especially the Latinas.
sigh It would be lovely, wouldn’t it?
- The world’s largest pizza.
- The world’s largest pizza box.
- The world’s largest pizza delivery tip.
Watch a drunk old man masturbate outside of Friday’s.
Sorry, amusing consecutive titles.
As for me …
Mmmmm, sweet, sweet laziness in my own house with multiple TVs and game consoles. Plus I’d have one wicked ass DVD collection. I’d cover a whole wall of my bedroom with them. Sigh. Now damn you for depressing me for I have no money to do that.