Oh, dear me. I missed the sign up for Marketing for Romance Writers 52-Week Blog Challenge. Again. I’m trying to get away from my computer more often these days so I forgot to go back, proof, and set my post to go out. The topic this week is:
Week 12: If you won the $10,000 lottery, you’d?
A ten-thousand-dollar win won’t be ten grand by the time taxes come out. Once my uncle won that amount in the Michigan Lottery. If my memory serves me correctly, he shared it with his six kids. My dad told me it turned out to be around seven thousand. To some, $10,000 is nothing. To me, it’s a good chunk I’d take in a heartbeat!
I rarely ever do anything for myself, so maybe this would be my time. My boys, daughter-in-law, and I talked about a trip out West. This amount would be terrific for a journey without leaving the country. I’d foot the bill whenever I could and try not to think about “watching my pennies” as I’m known to do which comes from a necessity to survive. This trip would be a gift from me to them, and we’d create wonderful memories.
Great! What a dream come true. Now, let’s face reality.
Above I say “watching my pennies.” Yes, I’m afraid if I won the money, I’d stick it away in the bank and let it sit for a “rainy day.” However, I know how much my brother and his family struggle each day, and I like to think I’d share some of it with them. Even before COVID-19, I’ve been frugal and forced to plan for the future for the sake of having money to fall back on. Seven-thousand would cover nearly a year of rent to keep a roof over my head. I fear if I spent the money foolishly, I’d feel guilty.
Oh, but I’d love the chance to find out and deal with it when it happened. Don’t you have to buy lottery tickets to win. Ha-ha. I don’t. Maybe it’s time to start?
How about you? Have you ever thought of what you’d do if you suddenly came into TEN GRAND?
This is a blog hop. I know you know by now. Find the other THREE participants HERE. This 52-Week Blog Challenge seems to be falling by the wayside this year. I bet I’m not the only one who didn’t get signed up in time but still wrote a post.
Stay safe, my friends. Stay well. Practice Social Distancing.
#StaySafeStayHome
Mary J. McCoy-Dressel 
10 thoughts on “#MFRWauthor Money to Spend Freely? Probably Not”
D. Wallace Peach
You’re right that 10k doesn’t go far these days, Mary. And with COVID-19 around, any frivolous spending sure would seem frivolous. But a celebratory free for all with the kids and grandkids sure would be nice when this is done. We can dream. 🙂
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Mary J. McCoy-Dressel
They can’t take away our dreams, Diana. At least the ones in our head. Hope you are all still well.
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D. Wallace Peach
Hanging in there. 🙂
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Mary J. McCoy-Dressel
No other choice, Diana. We’re in lockdown now. 😷🔒
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Cathy Brockman
We are too much alike. I’m too frugal to go foolish. That family vacation of not having to watch pennies sounds good! But I guess we both need to buy tickets lol.
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Mary J. McCoy-Dressel
Our questions have answered themselves with all these lockdowns and shutdowns, Cathy. We’ve lost our choices due to what is going on now. Better days will come again. #ThinkPositive
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Jacquie Biggar
My first thought would be to give it all to my daughter, she needs it more than I do. But, maybe I’d hang onto a thousand or two for fun money, lol
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Mary J. McCoy-Dressel
Unexpected fun money is…”fun.” Any extra is fun! Haha.
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Teagan R. Geneviene
It would be so nice to do something non-essential — even frivolous without worry about money, or guilt about “shoulds.” Although, many successful people have said that pretending (without going beyond one’s means) is the way to attract such things… so I’ll try, Mary. 😉
Okay, without any philanthropic, moralistic “shoulds” (particularly since, as much as I’d appreciate the amount, for shoulds of that scale, 10K really wouldn’t go that far)… hmmm… I really need to get my yard landscaped, and that would blow through most of it, based on the estimates I’ve gotten. 😦 What’s wrong with me? I can’t get my brain to cooperate with this fun imagining. Actually that IS what’s wrong with me.
Okay, something truly frivolous. I’d hire a good artist to paint colorful murals all over the wall that encloses my back yard, and all over the shed! Fun, fanciful images. Tee-hee.
Thanks for this, Mary. Hugs on the wing.
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Mary J. McCoy-Dressel
A mural sounds fun, Teagan!
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