What would you do with an extra $50?

I just listened to an interesting pod cast from Optimal Living Daily- Finance. It was from a post by Kait Flanders, and I recommend listening or reading it as well. My thoughts on it isn’t an aversion to the opinion nor is it a totally agree thing, but more of an, Oh! Something is clicking...

My dad and I always use to play this game, what would you do with a million dollars, and it always was about the same, pay debts, buy fancy house and or cars and cars for everyone(I was an 80s baby, a million bucks went further in those days and there wasn’t social media to show you what “everyone” else had lol). I love my father to no end, this isn’t a critique on him, he just happens to be part of my story. So I’m wondering if this mind set isn’t the poverty trap. A million dollars seems like a lot, but it could totally be knocked out with one purchase. And maybe, here comes the ranting, what if it’s that thought of it being “bonus” money that sets us into this trap of “fun” money? Maybe we have these little crystal balls to see what we would do with a million dollars, just by looking at what we did with that $20 tip maybe, it was a $100 holiday bonus, or $3,000 tax return, or maybe even two thousand smackaroos from HQ Trivia? Where did that money go? Looking at all of my past finiancial mistakes, which would be almost every financial decision I’ve ever made, would seem to really support this thought that I have. I would love to hear your thoughts!

Thanks for listening!