inspired by Fandango’s One Word Challenge (FOWC) of 27 November 2021, squander.
Pair won lottery one sunny day,
Hit the jackpot with numbers they played.
But they squandered the lot,
Couldn’t piss in their pot,
And the repo men took it away.
Family Fortunes
Mister Bump 
🤣 Winning a huge amount of money is a double-edged sword that I would not want to handle!
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I’d be okay with it, now, because I’d know how to do something good with it. I suppose clear all debts, set aside maybe £100k for bills, then give the rest to a charity.
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Charity, yes, but there are too many of them and a lot cream off too much money in staffing and admin costs!
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Yeah, that’s a difficult one. There are a quarter million in tbe UK alone.
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Wow! And each with their own running costs.
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You hear of e.g. private schools registering as charities to enjoy tax breaks (not sure what those breaks are) but I’m sure the vast majority, we’d class as “good causes”
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Definitely. I wouldn’t disagree. There are just too many, but where do you draw the line?
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I draw the line when it becomes personal. e.g. I used to volunteer for the stroke people because it was personal.
I use this to justify not donating to things when there is no personal link. Sad but as you say, you have to draw a line somewhere.
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Agreed!
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Imagine the travel possibilities!! And you could always give it away to charities 😁
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I don’t fly, so travel is limited, but charities, yeah.
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Traveling can be done by train and ferry too or even within UK without flying. I think it would afford a security factor for me in case of an emergency
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true. I used the ferry in the summer.
Ideally, train can be the best form of travel, but even on an electric train, only about 1/3 of our electricity is generated renewably.
The French are slightly better but they rely more heavily on nuclear, which is also a no-no. Fission, anyhow.
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Well nothing is ideal carbon footprint unfortunately is everywhere
I love trains!! And ferry does no good in land locked country
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My uncle won the second division twice and donated it all to charity on both occasions. He said they needed it more than him
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I can’t fault that logic. I’d maybe want to take out a chunk so that I could live debt-free, but yeah…
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Sadly, it happens. What idiots! I can think of the animal shelters I could build and a homeless shelter. If you win multiple million, put 1 in the bank account and can live very nicely off of the interest without worrying for the rest
of your life. Then when you pass if no relatives leave that to charity also. win-win.
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absolutely
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