OK, I actually won a free play. Someone else won the $64 million jackpot. That’s a lot of money, even if you convert it to U.S. dollars.
So instead of jetting off to some tropical paradise while leaving my noisy neighbours behind, here’s a list of what I might do if I won an unholy sum of money, written while I sit in an IKEA office chair below my noisy neighbours, who I will probably have to endure for the next million years.
I’M RICH, NOW WHAT?
- Donate millions to assorted favourite charities and causes; do so anonymously
- Give the people upstairs $20,000 with a note saying, “Enjoy a full and happy life.” They’ll wonder what the catch is.
- Fund a few people whose work I admire and enjoy
- Buy a nice single detached home where no one can live above you ever
- Go somewhere nice for a little while
- Provide enough to my family to smooth things out for them
- Do the same for my friends
- Put the rest of the money in safe investments
- Work on making stuff (writing, drawing, painting, beat poetry, recording new wave albums, whatever)
- Try to be a good person
- Keep running
- Keep not going to a gym, public or otherwise
- Have an occasional cookie