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If I won the lottery...
Ok, first of all, there's this house I've wanted since I was a little girl. It's on Little Blue Road, just west of Noland. It sits on like 26 acres or something, and it's this reeeeeeally old stone mansion. The mansion itself has 6 bedrooms with fireplaces in each room. The property has stables, a guest house, and a gate house. Four years ago it sold for $2 million.
The first thing I'd do if I won the lottery is buy this house and move everyone that was important to me into the other houses. Ok, and we'd have to build a couple more, but I could handle two acres between each house.
Next, I'd invest enough money in different bonds and funds (guaranteed no-risk stuff) to make sure that my insurance and property taxes were covered on it for the next fifty years. It would really suck to have such an awesome house and lose it cause you couldn't afford the taxes.
I think I'd open a store. Scrapbooking, of course, and other hobby-stuff (ceramics, pottery, classes, etc.) with a coffee shop attached. We'd make fresh pastries every morning. I'd hire someone to manage it so I could still have time to do the fun stuff I wanted to do.
Once my store was operating in the black, I'd start thinking about buying my island - you know, where I'd retire. The only access would be by boat (there's a horror movie in the making), and I'd live in a great big two-story colonial planatation home with a HUGE kitchen surrounded by stained-glass windows. I'd grow vegetables to eat in the summer, and can in the winter. The house would be completely energy-efficient, with solar panels, rain cisterns and a windmill for power. I *might* invest in a back-up generator for emergencies.
I guess also a 6% tithe is in order here.. St. Francis, think you can pay off that debt? The Humane Society of America gets a pretty decent sized cut, and Wayside Waifs probably an even bigger cut.
And duh, this would all come AFTER my friends and family were all taken care of..
Ok, first of all, there's this house I've wanted since I was a little girl. It's on Little Blue Road, just west of Noland. It sits on like 26 acres or something, and it's this reeeeeeally old stone mansion. The mansion itself has 6 bedrooms with fireplaces in each room. The property has stables, a guest house, and a gate house. Four years ago it sold for $2 million.
The first thing I'd do if I won the lottery is buy this house and move everyone that was important to me into the other houses. Ok, and we'd have to build a couple more, but I could handle two acres between each house.
Next, I'd invest enough money in different bonds and funds (guaranteed no-risk stuff) to make sure that my insurance and property taxes were covered on it for the next fifty years. It would really suck to have such an awesome house and lose it cause you couldn't afford the taxes.
I think I'd open a store. Scrapbooking, of course, and other hobby-stuff (ceramics, pottery, classes, etc.) with a coffee shop attached. We'd make fresh pastries every morning. I'd hire someone to manage it so I could still have time to do the fun stuff I wanted to do.
Once my store was operating in the black, I'd start thinking about buying my island - you know, where I'd retire. The only access would be by boat (there's a horror movie in the making), and I'd live in a great big two-story colonial planatation home with a HUGE kitchen surrounded by stained-glass windows. I'd grow vegetables to eat in the summer, and can in the winter. The house would be completely energy-efficient, with solar panels, rain cisterns and a windmill for power. I *might* invest in a back-up generator for emergencies.
I guess also a 6% tithe is in order here.. St. Francis, think you can pay off that debt? The Humane Society of America gets a pretty decent sized cut, and Wayside Waifs probably an even bigger cut.
And duh, this would all come AFTER my friends and family were all taken care of..
posted by SevenHappyScrappers at 1:52 AM
3 Comments:
Can I visit you on the island? :)
I want that stone mansion too!! Sounds like a great life!
I wanna live there too (the island that is). Ahhhhh, someday. Maybe our scrapping forum should start a lotto pool. You know, $10 a month per person, split the winnings. Hmmmmmm. Maybe I will start it!.
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