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If you would have won.
For the worse, probably. B”H I didn’t.
I would have a pet golden retriever.
To a dead life doing nothing and a depressed life
I did win. Ask me again in a year.
I’d have built a big tall house with rooms by the dozen right in the middle of the town. There’d be one long staircase just going up and one even longer going down. And one more leading nowhere – just for show.
I would have run ads in all major newspapers and magazines,
online and on Tv. The ads would say “nothing in the world is worth buying”
I would also have a built a Huuuuuuuuge wall, a wall so big that it would beat China. Thereby achieving two goals in 1.
Tada quack!
Mashiach agent: Your comment reminds me of how I like my coffee, deep, dark and intense.
I would have changed my phone #
I’d have bought a dog food company to make kosher dog food.
If I’d have bought a ticket, it would have been in Maryland, where one is allowed to claim lottery prizes anonymously. That would have been a great start. Then, of course, you need to gather a team – attorneys, financial advisers, CPA . . . and a second team on the Israeli side. Once that’s all done, the (anonymous) donations start, especially to local tzedakas . . . the yeshivat hesder, various funds for the elderly, the schools my kids attended, my yeshiva . . . I guess the list is endless.
And RebYidd23, why do you need a dog food company to make kosher dog food? Dogs don’t need to eat kosher food.
Certain dog food brands can’t be fed to a Jewish person’s dog. And there is a chance of babies eating dog food. It is easier to make it kosher.
One thing I would’ve done is I would’ve brought Shalom to the politics in my community
Kesef yaaneh es Hakol
Re: Dog food
1. You aren’t allowed to serve the pet milk mixed with meat – a hecksher means not having to read the small print
2. It’s easier than having separate utensils for serving the pet
The OU was asked by someone to put a Hechsher on Dog Food. They refused because they felt it would have made a mockery out of Kashrus
Zdad,
And bleach, laundry detergent, and floor cleaner doesn’t?
we have 4 dogs. Their food is stored and prepared in a small treyf kitchen built onto the back of our garage. The refrigerator/freezer, stove and keilim are not used for humans. The door is kept locked and only Mrs. CTLAWYER and I have the keys. Our children were never allowed to prepare or serve the dogs’ food.
As to bleach, we often use it in the sink and it may get on keilim, so a hechscher is nice even if not required. Laundry detergent or floor cleaner with a hechscher is just a way for the kashrus organization to raise money.
That’s nice ctlawyer,
I was saying there’s more of a reason to have it on dog food than on laundry detergent
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Won what?
Some lottery. Either mega millions, or more likely the other one which is also a few states combined.
CTlawyer: wood cleaner such as Murphy can be for floors or for butcher block countertops, so sometimes a hechsher makes sense.
Sorry I know it’s an old thread, but I had to say this…
Someone asked an Israeli what he would do if he won the lottery. He said, “I would use some of it to pay off my debts.”
“And the rest?”
“The rest (of my debts) will have to wait”.
LuL, That joke appears in one of the Gadi Pollack books, if I’m not mistaken Forward Into the Past
I heard it from a friend. I think it was at least 7 years ago from this coming Pesach. It was almost definitely at least five and a half years ago.
If his book was written before that, then that might be where she got it from.
Alternatively (more likely possibility), it’s an old joke.
Unless you have a tremendous amount of self control, it would be a real k’lalah to win that much money.
You wouldn’t fit in anywhere. You wouldn’t fit in with middle-class people because you’d be rich. You wouldn’t fit in with rich people because you wouldn’t actually be rich, you had just happened to have won a lot of money.
It wouldn’t be good.
I don’t know about that – it’s not like it would last forever. I would use it to pay off debts, buy an apartment in Eretz Yisroel, pay for tickets to go to the US a few times a year for shidduchim, buy a new wardrobe, give maaser of course or maybe chomesh, and put the rest in the bank to live on and support my future family IYH, if anything is even left at that point.
The jackpot last year was around a billion dollars. All the things you just listed would barely scratch the surface. And again, it would take tremendous self-control to stick to only those things and not go overboard.
The only “unnecesary” thing I have any taaveh for is a life-time supply of chocolate and that wouldn’t really make me not fit in with my friends. I would probably use a good part of it to buy things for my friends to pay them back for things they’ve done for me. And the rest of it I would probably lend to gemachim.
All these things are much easier to say when you don’t have the money.
Maybe you’re stronger than I am, but I don’t think I would want to be tested like that.
I’m not strong – I just don’t really have taavos for anything that’s not edible or readable, so it’s hard to see how it would affect my life that much (for the bad), other than filling my kitchen and my bookshelves.
It’s true that I can’t know until I have the money, but I am who I am, and it’s hard to imagine that that would change very much.
One hardest projected part is when other people know the lottery winner won money.
Setting boundaries. Saying no. Doubting intentions of new friendships.
Etc.
Being able to pay for things and pay off debts is one thing. Keeping your business private is another.
I would prob want to remain anonymous B”H for my own protection.
I’m not strong – I just don’t really have taavos
for anything that’s not edible or readable…
Made me smile.
I’m glad that some people like my posts and that I can make some people smile. Nice to know that some people think my existence is meaningful.
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