ANSWERS: 18
  • Yes i think thats the best example you can set for your daughter.
  • I agree with Cuttergirl. Invest the majority of it and use the dividends for the little extras you want to give your family - but not to excess, like houses and cars for everyone! I'm talking a family trip, or more food in the pantry, or even contributing to less fortunates.
  • Of course. Good choice...
  • I think to each their own. You should work if you love what you do and actually enjoy working. I personally would never work again. I don't enjoy it. However, the money would give me the freedom to pursue my dreams. But the monotonous day-to-day 9-5 job, forget it, lol. There's no way.
  • I agree you should teach your daughter the value of money and things in life are worth working for. I also feel you should enjoy what you earn!
  • Absolutely. In fact I'm totally impressed! Most people wouldn't even stop to think, or care for that matter, what their actions could teach their children in a situation like that. Yes it's a good thing, but do we really want our children growing up depending on that winning lottery ticket, that isn't going to come, because they now think they don't have to work for their money and everything should just be handed to them? No... Way to make sure you teach your daughter how things really should be...and a good strong work ethic! +++
  • This is the best reason I can imagine to continue to work. What a great father you must be.
  • You could not be more correct, if you tried. Money is great to have, but its not everything in life.
  • Very honestly? I would be more impressed if you vacated a job that someone else now needs more than you, accepted the responsibility of dealing well with such a huge and sudden infusion of cash in your lives and forgot any idea that 'it won't change US' - because if it didn't you would be the only one, as history shows us, who wouldn't. This is why, the older I got the less enthusiastic I was about buying a lottery ticket - if I won, I wouldn't last a year.....
  • That depends..if you have all this money, (and you DID play for a reason) why would you take a position away from someone with NO job?
  • Life goes on. Nothing can change it. Even winning a lottary. So this would be very much OK.
  • I think it would be okay. Another way to set this example, without taking away a 'potential' job for someone else who needs the job, would be to volunteer your time to a cause you believe in. You could also enrich your life by going to college and taking whatever classes interest you. Continuing to learn about the world around you could never be seen as a 'bad example'.
  • Well I have a different take on this. If your daugther actually "knew" you had won the lottery and you were continuing working to prove a point, she may actually consider you weak. Wouldn't there be other, less arduous, ways of proving self-sacrifice and hard work?
  • You win the Lotto first, then let us know what happens! Hee!
  • I would go to work also. I agree with your reasoning. My daughter needs to learn what we own I have worked long and hard to earn.
  • do us all a favour, and leave the Military, and teach your kid that killing someone because a politician told you to is immoral, and despicable.
  • ruffryder, all respect to you. You are right, I live in the UK, and we do have troops alongside the US in Iraq. As you may have suspected, I am not very happy about this. An inceasing number of military people are the same. You ask how you leaving the military would help me? Well, to be truthful, I generally don't ask soldiers to leave the forces, just refuse to serve in Iraq, or any upcoming war with Iran. How would this help me? Well, it's not just about me, but anything that might help end the horror in Iraq has to be a good thing. Do you know how many million sons and daughters the US/UK has killed in Iraq over the last 10/15 years between wars and sanctions? At the rate we are going, we will surpass Hitler by the end of the decade. My friend, I suggest to you that you are not being tasked with preserving 'freedom' when you are deployed to Iraq. It is more than mere 'opinion', the facts are out there. When ones country is wrong, the patriot is the one who stands to correct it.
  • Its ok, but having said that why did you buy the ticket in the first place. To really show her you are serious donate the money to koldkanuck@gimme.org i have no such hangups.

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