Time for another list. Is my blog becoming some hack listicle site? Maybe! Mostly I’m just in a list kind of mood.
Saturday’s Lotto 6/49 jackpot is $46 million. Even in Canadian dollars, this is a lot of money. What would I do if I had this kind of essentially bottomless wealth handed to me out of the blue? A lot of things. Some of them might even be sensible.
In no particular order:
- I’d donate to a favourite YouTube channel in exchange for them never doing another sponsored video again.
- Buy a nice place to live, nothing flashy.
- Buy a nice vehicle to drive, nothing flashy. I’d also need to renew my driver’s license. Then I’d probably hire someone to drive me around, anyway.
- I’d buy one of those stupidly expensive Wacom Cintiq pen tablets.
- Give a lot to a list of worthwhile causes and charities. It would be private, so I won’t share names here.
- Give to my friends and family. But not too much. I wouldn’t want to corrupt them with my easy money. Yes.
- Travel somewhere. Somewhere that isn’t on fire, flooded, under a landslide or swept away by a mega-storm. There are still a few places left.
- Buy out as many buildings-named-after-rich-people-or-corporations as I could and have them renamed something to reflect the area or history they’re in, instead. Goodbye, Jim Pattison Acute Care Tower! So long, Rogers Arena! That’s probably all I could afford, actually.
- Plant a lot of trees where trees are needed.
- Donate to schools.
- Buy a nice couch.
