Right now the Powerball Lottery Prize is at $500,000,000; one half of one billion dollars. Wow just typing that made me a little woozy! I won't lie to ya hon, I bought a ticket or two myself. So did my mom, so did my daughter, and so did most everyone I know just because the prize is so high.
Like most people, I've always had a mental list of what I'd do if I won a million dollars, even a few million. But wow, this prize, even after taxes it's still beyond my wildest dreams. Naturally there's the initial pay debts and buy houses for myself my mom and my 2 girls and hire my mom a staff! Then set aside college tuition for the grandkids. Heck, I'd pay college tuition for the whole family! Oh yeah, and travel: America first, Europe, Asia, Australia. I'd go by land and sea and air. Trains, cruises, hell maybe even a hot air balloon for a week or two!
But mainly I would share it. It would be great to create a nice home for families needing help and a place to live. How fun would it be to take kids with nothing out shopping for clothes and toys. How fulfilling to provide the means to feed not a few but a few hundred or thousand people in need.
I'd buy brand new electric beds for every room in the nursing home I work at. I'd throw the residents a huge party catered by some fabulous chef. Better yet, I could build them a full-fledged Bingo Hall and have a Bingo caller available all day every day! I could buy the place, well I'd have to pay someone to do the daily grind part though. Seriously, I'd love to give everyone of them everything they could dream of, just to see their faces when I told them it was theirs!
I'd create a scholarship for nurses and healthcare workers. Not for high school kids wanting to get into the field. No, my scholarship would pay to retrain those who have done this job too long but can't make as much money elsewhere without going back to school. But you don't want to go back to school because the tuition would negate any salary increase you'd get because you're already too close to retirement age. So I'd pay full tuition and expenses for a couple of years of retraining, requiring a month-long vacation before classes could be started. Ok, I'm rambling here.
But most likely, should my numbers be the ones drawn, the first use of the winnings would be putting a fair amount of it to paying the medical bills from the stroke I'd have when I found out I'd won!
Dream big!
