Wow I really loved your answer as I share it a lot with you!! I must say that I've dreamed about winning the lotto hahahaha. I am currently not working as I am 57 years old and I retired from work. So the first thing I would do is move to Aruba, I love that island and I love the beach! That is actually my plan to spend my golden years hahaha! I'll buy a house huge enough to live with my family so that they can enjoy the magic of Aruba! I'll also pay my youngest daughter's tuition for med school in the US as I think that is one of the best countries to study medicine! I'll also give a good sum of money to my daugthers and family so that they don't have to worry about money never again!!! I am also a shopaholic so I must be honest with you and say that I would buy clothes and so for sure hahahaha. Another thing I'll do, before I leave to Aruba or while I am there, is to donate a good amount of money to venezuelan charities that fight hunger, especially of children's and also to the children's hospital of Caracas (JM de los Ríos) as my daughter and I have visited there and it's no secret that there is a huge shortage of medical supplies and medicines! Maybe that way I could make my country a better place!
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This all sounds like a perfectly good use of hypothetical lottery winnings and it would surely make for an excellent life.
You mention charities...Here, mostly only 10 cents in every donated dollar reaches the people who need it and so I'm not inclined to donate to charities that use the funds to but Mercedes Benz for the CEO and BMW's for the managers. Having said that, I'm a pretty solid supporter of businesses and initiatives that support returned military veterans, a group that my government don't support very well. There's many ways to be charitable.
Wow that's awful, well I know what you are talking about, I live in a very corrupted country it really makes me super mad! The worst thing is that they take the money shamelessly it's outrageous!
Oh yes, I have read about the veterans, they are not supported and that it's horrible, they are left out after fighting for the country... We must find the right charities to support, that's right!!
That's the key, finding the right charities, or businesses to support, to ensure the funds get to where they are needed.
We have always said if we had things to spare we would help others, and we do the good will and offer material things to friends. Even the cardboard sign holding beggars on the corner want only money.
Galen nails it here with the charities. They would have to have a 99% pass thru before I would give cash. That just does not happen. :-/
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People can be charitable in other ways. That's what we do, rather than fund Mercedes Benz's for the CEO.
There's so much good work that could be done and yet so many charities make a mockery of people. Shameful.