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serious crayons:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on August 09, 2013, 08:01:14 am ---That was used at work the other day here. There was one of those huge lottery drawings, and we went in on it. The prize was about $450 million dollars.
One of my coworkers said that if we won we could "forget what it's like to be poor.". I smirked.
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It's funny that lotteries always draw the most attention when they get way up there into the multiple hundred-millions. For me, if I won, oh, say, $5 million, I would think, "I ain't in the poor house" and would be pretty pleased.
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on August 09, 2013, 11:53:33 pm ---It's funny that lotteries always draw the most attention when they get way up there into the multiple hundred-millions. For me, if I won, oh, say, $5 million, I would think, "I ain't in the poor house" and would be pretty pleased.
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I'd be happy with a million. LOL I wouldn't be able to retire, but I'd be comfortable!
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on August 10, 2013, 09:14:20 pm ---I'd be happy with a million. LOL I wouldn't be able to retire, but I'd be comfortable!
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I know. How crazy is it that a million dollars isn't enough to retire? But yes, I could use a million dollars.
To evaluate whether an amount of money is worth getting excited about, I always think of it this way: If it were a coupon, would I clip it? So if it's, say, "save 75 cents when you buy any three Lean Cuisine meals," and I'd have to go to the trouble of finding the scissors, cutting the coupon, carrying it around in my purse, remembering to buy the three LCs and then get the coupon out at the register and give it to the cashier (and it's that last step where I usually fail, leaving me annoyed that I went to all the other trouble), for 75 cents I figure it's not worth the bother of even trying.
But if it was a coupon for a million dollars, I'd clip it! ;D
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on August 09, 2013, 11:53:33 pm ---
It's funny that lotteries always draw the most attention when they get way up there into the multiple hundred-millions. For me, if I won, oh, say, $5 million, I would think, "I ain't in the poor house" and would be pretty pleased.
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I think I'd rather win one of those "$XXX a week for life" lotteries. But let be, let be.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Meryl on August 09, 2013, 02:09:39 am ---
We were going on a boat ride in the Norfolk marshes and I said to my friend, "Hey, those are some big-ass binoculars you've got there." She shot back, "Well, we're gonna look at some little-ass birds!" ;D
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There is an aphorism here. If you want to see some little-ass birds, you've got to have some big-ass binoculars. :P
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