If You Had a Million Dollars... is a slim, recently-published book by Evelyn McFarlane and James Saywell that poses 342 questions pertaining to how you think about money.
It does not provide any answers, or help you determine if your answers are “right” or “wrong.” So here are some of the questions we found most interesting, along with the way we might answer them if we were forced to do so...
• Do you act differently around rich people? Yes. We agree with whatever they say, in case someday we have to ask them for money.
• On your deathbed, what will you say is the most valuable thing you spent your money on? A good mattress.
• What is the ideal amount of money you should save as a percentage of your salary? Ideally, 100 percent.
• What one thing influences you most when deciding whether to give someone a handout on the street? Whether or not he’s armed.
• Who in your family would treat you differently if you became a millionaire? Long-lost relatives.
• You win the lottery. Your loved one says you must give it all to charity or it will destroy your life. What do you do? Find a new loved one.
• You have been given a year to try to make a million dollars. Your best chance of succeeding would be to do what? Write a book on how to make a million dollars and sell 200,000 copies at $5 each.
• Would you sell an organ? For how much? Don’t own an organ. How about a piano?
