I Play the Imaginary Lottery Game to Clarify My Financial Goals

Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

I want to start by saying that I don’t actually play the lottery. But I dream about winning it.

We have a pretty big financial goal, so every penny we can get goes to some form of living, saving, debt paydown or investing in something that will make us more money. But as prices go up and savings opportunities go down, I have rethought a lot about where any…