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Day 26 - If You Had $1,000,000 to Spend, How Would You Spend it?

A girl can dream, can't she??  Oh, let me count the ways!!!

The first order of business would be to pay off all debt.  I don't know if I would continue working or not - as I could retire and since I had that million dollars and my debt would be gone, paying health insurance premiums wouldn't be too horrible - who knows.

I would probably give all the kids a bit of cash to pay off some of their debts, too.

And whenever I felt my fancy being tickled, I would give wonderful donations of $1000 or so to whatever charity interested me at the moment - just whenever.  Mostly Make-A-Wish, diabetes or cancer research and things like that.

I would invest half - not sure in what or how.  But, it would be a good plan to save for later.  That way, I could play on the interest.

I would remodel some of my house - I would get my fireplace going the very first thing.  Get new carpeting or even hardwood floors in my living room.  New furniture.  Maybe a new kitchen, I hate my kitchen.  OK, I don't hate my kitchen really, I just hate the lack of cupboard and drawer space.

The last thing I would do is plan for two vacations - very nice vacations.  The first one would be just a trip for two - maybe a European tour or a very long cruise.  That would be for Ted and I.  The other would be a vacation for all of my family - not really sure what I would do there; a cruise where we all have a gorgeous suite, an all-inclusive resort, a theme park journey or what.  But, we would do something extremely awesome.

That money I invested - - it would be used from then on to do awesome and wonderful things.

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