How I'd Spend a Million Dollars in 24 Hours

      The hilarious and cool cat, @WhatisNew, tagged me for the Million Dollar Challenge. It goes like this: You've been given a sweet $1,000,000 (I'm going to assume after tax since I like how all those zeros look). What would you buy within the first 24 hours? It can't be Steem related.

I'd find a place with a view as peaceful as this.

      I think everyone has thought about what they'd do if they win a lottery or come into a big sum of money. What bills they would pay off, where they would move, and who they would help. I'm not any different in that department. Although, I'll confess that my first thoughts were more along the lines of:

It'd just be a 20 minute bath. I swear!

      All kidding aside, I'd spend the first half hour or so paying off my debt. Between repaying my partner for all of the years that he's paid on the house we live in, my car, and a few other sundry bills, there would go a little under $60,000.

      Following that, I'd stick $300,000 in savings plans towards my children's education.
My eldest daughter, a freshman in high school, wants to be a cardiologist. Which is good since the thought of the loan payments makes me need one! She's dreamt of becoming a doctor since third grade and worked hard to qualify for one of the few seats in her high school's Health Professions Program!

       As for my youngest daughter, she's narrowed it down to "something involving animals". Some days I picture her running the world's greatest animal sanctuary. Then, there are other days. When my cute and twisted little one will do or say something and and I think, Yup. Taxidermist.

I'd then hand off fat envelopes with $10,000 inside to my local fire department, Boys & Girls Club, food bank, PEACE Inc, abuse recovery shelter, rescue hounds program and the spay & neuter nonprofit organization that I volunteer with. All of these charities have good people running them and I trust that they'll use the funds responsibly. Another envelope would go to a friend to pay for her carpal tunnel surgeries.

After those deliveries, I'd buy a house with, you guessed it, lots of land! A quick search returned many properties with 10 or more acres, a pond or situate alongside a river, and a house in good repair. I limited my budget to $200,000 but since I'd be trying to get the deal done in a day, let's up that to $300,000. Then there'd be plenty of room for gardens and some chickens, including Redda here, whom my daughters adore!       So, if math is my friend today, that would leave more than enough to purchase a truck, plants, the supplies to build a chicken coop, a porch swing, and possibly a work shed. Then I'd be buying a few plane tickets. There's a friend in Michigan that I haven't seen in almost 12 years, a certain Sassy @Snook that I want to be able to give a real hug, and a restaurant in Italy, Grotta Palazzese, that I want to take @Omra-sky, @F3nix and @Marcoriccardi to. Of course, this means that I'd have to to finally get myself a passport!

      Finally, after all of that running around, I think I'd sit on my porch swing, have a cup of tea, and watch the sun set.

      The last part of this challenge is to tag five others to share what they'd do with the chance to realize a few of their dreams. So, come out and play @thekittygirl, @docpaoh, @dennisauburn, @mcamayra & @starzy!

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Thank you @omra-sky for my sweet Squirrple Necklace separator!

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Squirrel World GIF by @Omra-sky. Thank you! 😻
GIF by @Omra-sky.
Carl GIF by @Snook! 💖 - Personalized by @Omra-sky

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