Have You Ever Dreamed About Being Rich?


This original is accurate for its time but considered racially insensitive today. The rich went down to Harlem (née Haarlem) for some dubious pleasures. Not everyone can get that from those lyrics today. "High browns" isn't talking about shoes.
 

Peace of mind. There are too many struggles in life and money can only buy the material.
Intangibles like happiness, joy, love and peace can never be bought with money.

Now I must go and check my lottery numbers.
 
I absolutely do not want to be rich in terms of money. I never buy lottery tickets because I never want to win lots of money. My sister's husband won Tatts Lotto years ago. He shared the first prize with two other people and received one million dollars. It did him no good in the long run - easy come, easy go.

However, my avoidance of lottery tickets goes even further back to the first Opera House lottery. The first prize was a huge amount back in the day. The winner of that prize was a family man with a wife and young boy. The newspapers ran the story and his name and address were published.

His young son was kidnapped on his way to school and ransom was demanded. I can't remember all the details but the boy suffocated in the boot (trunk) of the kidnapper's car.

I looked at my two young children and hugged them. I decided that I never wanted to be rich enough to place them at risk.

Hubby and I both worked and we saved enough to have a comfortable life. We have been able to help others with money when there has been a need. I consider myself rich, very rich indeed. I do not covet the lives of the rich and famous one little bit.
 

I remember that story and I’ve got his name in the tip of my tongue @Warrigal it was heartbreaking story
when it was rare to hear of murders, I’d just left school at 15 when that happened
 
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I can't remember ever having done so. But when I was very young, every night before going to sleep I would imagine all the things I would have when I grew up. Everything was lined up as part of a parade. Of course this was before I started school so my knowledge of what that might be was very limited. But I can remember police cars were part of it, probably because they were part of television shows we watched. Don't recall myself being in the dream at all but I would drift off to sleep while watching the parade of my future stuff.
 
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Back when we were 1st. married I was in the Navy. The monthly amount of money coming in was$198.00 a month. Being rich then would have been $500.00 a month. I guess "being rich" is relative to what a person considers rich. Now $50,000.00 a month would be nice but wouldn't be life changing for us.
 
I’ve entertained dreams about being rich less than I have nightmares about not being able to meet expenses. My alumni association torments me with mailings on trips, foolishly thinking that I’d go on excursions costing ten to twenty grand…I do confess to looking longingly at glossy pictures of those luxury yachts before consigning them to the trash… 😔
 
I have bought a few lottery tickets in the past (considered it a "donation" to the governor :ROFLMAO:), but I have a pretty good understanding of math so have never expected to win anything (and I've never been disappointed :ROFLMAO:). Then a year or so ago I actually considered the "what if . . .?". The thought of what our life would be like if we won hundreds of millions of dollars scared the heck out of me and I haven't bought a lottery ticket since then.
 
SandyR said:
For me, rich is enough to do what you want, when you want and be at peace.
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I think we've all daydreamed about it when the lottery jackpot gets to a huge number. We try to think of all the ways that we would be smart with that much money and how we would keep it from corrupting us.

My working definition of rich has always been having enough that I don't have to worry when something "bad" happens. There was a time that a major car repair would wreak havoc for several months until it could be paid off. Heaven forbid the AC system needed replacing. So now, I consider myself rich in that respect. The years of sticking with the savings plan, in spite of the road bumps, now allow is to live without fear of a "normal" big expense causing us distress.
 
The wealthy threshold today has risen greatly, mostly due ridiculous unfair real estate inflation. Some might categorize this person as wealthy. However, with my level of assets in my urban region, I cannot not even outright buy a home to live in.
 
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