Making a Small Fortune With Pipes

I always said that if I won the lottery, I'd buy a restaurant and run it until the money was all gone.

Party till the money runs out.
If you've ever wondered what your friends are all about
Just party till the money runs out.

I'd not tell any of my friends if I won the lottery, that's for sure!

Hey, I'm a thousandaire

I was asked many years ago what I'd do if someone gave me a million dollars and I told them, "keep ranchin' until it was all gone." (That was 35 years or so ago when a million dollars was worth something)

WyoBob

Im a million penny-aire.

Hehe, quit your bragging!

Back when I was still pissed-off at the ex-wife, someone asked me that rhetorical question: "What would you do if aliens gave you 10 million dollars, but you only had until tomorrow to spend it cuz they were gonna destroy the Earth?" I told them the I'd give my ex-wife a check for nine million, but tell her she had to wait until tomorrow to cash it at a specific bank because that bank needed to ensure that the money was there and all. I could go through a million in a day, but not 10 million. Then I could be there to see the look on her face as she went to cash the check just as the world exploded. Priceless.

I'm no longer that spiteful, but I wouldn't give her any money either. Let me win the Lotto, and I'm buying some land in the Pocono Mountains where I spent my summers as a kid. A modest sized cabin with a deck that goes down to the water and then becomes a boat dock. Fishing, pipe smoking, bird watching, and enjoying life without interuption will then be the agenda of the day...

If I got a million, I'd set aside half for the 50% lottery IRS tax. I'd sell my house and buy a decent size ranch, and cd ladder the rest to cover property tax for at least the next 40 years.

I guess that's why they say not to quit your job

Sure, throw cold water on my plans to smoke a bowl of 10 Russians, while watching the loons as I catch bluegills and yellow perch from my deck! I guess I'd have to modify the plan: the wife could stop working and I'd go to work for the Wayne County, PA, probation department. (I like my job, what can I say).

It occurred to me after my post above that 35% would go to the purchase of a ranch and the remaining 65% would go to taxes. Nice....

Right now I am a hundredaire and just barely at that lol

All I can say its I've been reading a lot of books like Web of Debt and I'm making sure I have wealth beyond paper/digital money. Taxes and inflation on necessities like energy and food are going to be the issue going forward.

A good free video on the topic is Money Masters. Google: Money Masters full video you tube

"It's easier to pass a camel through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the gates of Heaven"

I'd be willing to test that theory.

I have 2 prayers concerning the lottery.

Lord, let me prove that winning the lottery won't change me.

Lord please let me win the lottery. I actually got an answer to this one. Doug, meet me half way. Buy a ticket.