First of all, the scores from last week's quiz. Huey and my Mom get full credit for answering (feta and velveeta, respectively). Bonus credit awarded to my mom for reminding me of the "edible oil product" category of cheese, and my own affection for Cheese Whiz. Elisabeth gets partial credit. Although she responded, her answer was more a description of her cheese-related shopping habits, rather than a fast commitment to consuming a single cheese for the rest of one's life. But thank you to all those who participated, and gave me motivation to think up another interesting quiz. This week, it is all about money, and there are three parts*.
1. What is the minimum amount of money you could win today, that you believe would allow you to quit working, and not perform another day of paid work for the rest of your life?
2. If your windfall from question one included a house, mortgage-free, how would your answer change?
3. If the house were in a small prairie town, say, Kipling, Saskatchewan, would you take it, just to be able to stop working? Or would you rather continue working so that you could live elsewhere?
*If you include with your response the interest rate you think you could earn on your winnings, and your current age, I will provide you with an actuarial analysis of your answer.
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huey, such a modest figure.
i want $10,000,000. that's right, i'm greedy.
but i'll give lots of it away, i promise.
as for interest rates, i am hopelessly math challenged, so i'll go with the ing savings account rate, which i believe is about 3%. that's still a pretty handy return, eh?
i don't want to live in nowhere saskatchewan, although i would consider a free house in any of the following:
vancouver, the rockies, that ranger cabin at ribbon lake, winnipeg, saskatoon, halifax, st. john's (the one in newfoundland), africa (specifically mozambique because i like the name. i also like cote d'ivoir, but i don't speak french, so that's out. please don't tell me they speak french in mozambique too. kenya if they do.), switzerland (one house/apartment in the downtown of either zurich or basel,and a heidi-esque house up in the alps, please), england.
i too would keep working, but i'd probably try and become a doctor or something before falling back on my teaching degree. who knows. maybe i'd just go to university and become a professor. or a nurse. or a midwife. maybe i'd be a real-estate agent.
i think what i'm saying here is i'd work for fun.
i'd also buy a hybrid car, a mountain bike, and take everyone i know and like (important distinction) on vacation somewhere great where we can use our mountain bikes and hiking shoes etc.
but really, i haven't thought about this at all.
really.
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