Do you buy lottery tickets? Do you check them right away?

For me: yes and no. That was yes, I buy lottery tickets and no, I do not check them right away.Whenever I buy one, PSM asks “did you check the ticket yet?” “have you checked your numbers yet?” Um, not yet, I will.

I know it sounds crazy, but…the longer I wait to check the ticket, the longer the dream stays alive that we might have won! That sounds perfectly reasonable to me! It lets me think about what would I do if we won $1 million dollars? What would we do if we won $10 million dollars? At this point, I’d take $5! ha ha

So, the longer I don’t check the numbers, the longer I can fantasize and dream about who I would help, what I might buy, where I would invest, where we would travel. Now there are different fantasies based on the amount of money, if it’s say, $1 million dollars, we’d take care of the immediate needs, like pay off credit cards, pay off any vehicle payments we might have, put back in what we used to pay for the renovations, do a few more things we want to this house, stuff like that, then put the rest away for retirement, ok, maybe not the entire rest, but most of it, we need to have some fun with it!

If we won what I like to call the ‘stupid’ money, oh my word. Yes, after taking care of the immediate needs we just talked about, then call our financial guy, our lawyer, and our accountant, that just reminded me I need to add them to our holiday card list, how thoughtless of me! We would call those guys to get things in order, and truthfully, now that I think about it, call them first, so we can things in order, then…take care of the immediate needs, then wee hoo, let’s have some fun! See…we have those guys to keep us in line, giving us enought to play with but not enough to get us in trouble!

Where are we buying houses/apartments/flats/condos? Oh yeah! Let me see…dreamy look in my eyes, looking off into the distance, here we go…ha ha. I’m just throwing a few things out there, like Paris, France, that is, Ireland, Guam, Hawai’i, Philippines, remote and far off places, why not?! I always said if I won the stupid money, you would know because I would have a fleet of VW Beetles, all different styles, there would be a Herbie, the Love Bug, of course! Then there would be a General Lee, horn and all [Here’s a General Lee VW Beetle!!!], although, I am not getting in and out through the windows! A Transformers Bumble Bee, so many options!

We’d have to build an underground garage like Iron Man, Batman, or Jay Leno for the fleet of classic cars and motorcyles we’re going to own. Oh yeah! And… And…And…

I have to stop or I’ll go on forever! See how this works? I have three tickets sitting on my desk right now, just waiting for me to check the numbers. I bought them on January 8th, they’re for Mega Millions, PowerBall, and Match 6, the last one I’ve never bought before, but I thought…why not.

If we win, will I let you know? Stick around to find out!

To quote Robin Leach, here’s to “champagne wishes and caviar dreams”. Night! And…sweet dreamin’!