With the new lottery draw, I've been thinking of dabbling in a ticket this week. I could do a lot with $25 million and I won't have access to that kind of money unless I lose limbs due to someone's negligence (not my own) or win the lottery. But people like me don't win the lottery. It's usually a retired boatmaker or an office full of middle management.
When I was growing up, on Saturday nights we'd have to interrupt our dinner to watch the Western. The Western was a half hour of BC lottery draws and results from the horses (at least I think it had something to do with the horses). My dad regularly played the same numbers, a combination of the birthdays in our family. He may still play the same numbers, I'm not totally sure. Anyway, he never won a huge amount, but occasionally we would hear about the $10 he won. Once I remember getting $100 because he won $500. That was cool. I wouldn't mind winning $100 now.
My friend's brother won $100,000 earlier this year and it was gone in around 6 months. He gave some to his family, paid part of his student loans, and travelled for 3 months. I have no idea how to use $100,000 that quickly. I mean, I could buy an apartment (or a tiny corner of an apartment), but I'm so indecisive with buying shoes that buying an apartment would probably take forever. If I had $25 million... I could be more decisive with that much money.
I'm going to try to dream the winning numbers. I mean, it's a pretty lucky year for me. I won those steaks at the meat draw over the Labour Day weekend... It's not much of a stretch to win $25 million, right?
As an aside, I have a bunch of quince from my friends' house. They have two trees and no idea what to do with them. I have enough for a lot of jam and some tarts/pies, if I get to it. Anyone have experience with quince?
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