Recalling Pineapples

  Question 3/424:  You just became a billionaire.   What will you buy for yourself?   And for others? So, I’m going to be honest in that I don’t feel like I am financially savvy enough to even know how far a billion dollars can be stretched.  I’m not even sure, without searching online, how to write out a billion dollars in numerals.  I know, my first and foremost, would be that I would buy a house.  Ideally, the house I want would never cost more than $250,000 which is pretty much a drop in a bucket of a billion dollars.  I would probably also go ahead and buy myself a brand new car, just so I know I’d be set for a while, which again I would try not spend more than $20,000.  I do also have some debts I would need to pay off but even then we’re still well under the $500,000 mark so there’s still a lot of money left in this imaginary bundle of cash. A lot of people often say that if they won the lottery they would pay off their parents’ ho...

  In March 2021 I purchased this Conversation Starter card set with the intention of going through them with my boyfriend.  That hasn't happened.  Instead this colorful box of cards has been used as a phone stand at work until I decided to use them as prompts for this blog.  I'm unsure if I'll be posting monthly, bi-weekly, or weekly, but I do want to try and get through all 424 questions, possibly two at a time since that's how the cards are set up.  If anyone feels inspired by this, by all means follow along or even buy your own copy of this deck and see if you can use it in real life during in person conversations also! Question 1/424:  Are you a planner, or prefer to be spontaneous? If forced to answer this without explanation, I would say I am a planner.   However, context is everything. I am not a person who could just up and decide one day that I was going to travel out of state for the weekend.   I at least need time to pack a bag, pla...