This is a game I recently learned about in which the point is to train your mind to be accustomed to having and spending big money. The more comfortable you are with money the less resistant you will be to it. Money is currency. Currency is electric. It’s moving. It’s action. Money moves. It comes and goes. We can attract it more readily if we change our attitude about it.
The game (or at least my version) goes like this. Each day you get a set amount of money. You HAVE to spend it all and it can’t be given away, donated to charity, or put in savings. You can’t say, “I’m putting x amount towards a loan” unless it covers the loan in its entirety. You can’t say, “I’d make a house downpayment,” you have to be able to purchase it outright. You want to think about spending the entire sum in one day.
Day 1: $1000 – With this sum of money I would buy a new washer/dryer for my house and if there was any leftover I would get my vents cleaned out professionally.
Day 2: $2000 – I would build a farm stand and a place for delivery people to leave my mail at the entrance of my driveway. I would have them anchored down well and have a lock/key system for my farm stand so my money box couldn’t be stolen. I would have some sort of small cooler for the eggs and a display case for the bread/food products. I would paint a really cool sign and advertise around town.
Day 3: $4000 – I would paint my house. Idk what color yet, but I would paint my house and make it super bright and cheerful, and I would install Stalink because centurylink Internet is lame.
Day 4: $8000 – I would buy a small greenhouse or two and landscape my garden area to be exactly what I want. There would be multiple trellises and a cute picket fence painted white.
Day 5: $16,000 – I would get either a new roof or new windows. Because my house is 30 years old and probably needs them.
Day 6: $32,000 – I would do some serious landscaping that included some kind of shrubbery to block my yard from the main road. I would also add a TON of trees to the backyard to block me from view of any and all neighbors.
Day 7: $64,000 – I would get an SUV of some sort. The closest thing I can find to an Isuzu trooper, which was my first car and I LOVED it. But they don’t make them anymore.
The game goes on like this, doubling every day until you decide to start over. I have made it to $512,000 a few times now and about that time I start wanting to do the same thing. (Buy land, pay off all my debt and all my family’s debt…)
The goal is to get used to spending, even if it’s just pretend. What would YOU do with $1,000?
Redheaded Jill 
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