Sugar Daddy
 

So, if you had some benefactor that freed you from the bondage of your everyday work-a-day chores, what would you do? Would you finish that novel, travel the world, or just lounge about? How wealthy would your benefactor have to be, and what would you do in return?

I'm living with my benefactor right now. ;) This is the first time in our 20 year rrelationship that I am not making financial contributions to out joint effort. So, what do I do? I'm studying for my RE license, I do a LoT of Lounging and lounging, and, most importantly, I'm recovering from the year from hell and trying to get my health and strength back. Oh, and I do a lot of traveling. My benefactor is wealthy enough for me. I feel pretty spoiled and lucky, actually. What do I do in return? I give him my undying love and lots of sex. ;)

Like Becky Sharp, I think I could be very good if I had $XXX,XXX amount a year. Like Virgina Woolfe, I think I could write to my heart's content - real work - if I had a body gladdened with good food, good wine, a room of my own, and freedom from the tyranny of a paltry income.

I'd certainly travel. I'd live all over the world. I would dress very well.

So I guess my benefactor would have to be wealthy? How would I pay my benefactor back would kind of depend on the benefactor, I guess. Like, maybe I'm Pip, and I helped to free a prisoner. In some way, I'd be owed a favor sometime down the line...heh.

I suppose I could dedicate some works to my benefactor?

Actually, maybe he or she wouldn't need a lot of money. Give me a year off from working. Pay my bills and my rent, and give me a small stipend for food and stuff. Then I would work, work, work on writing. And when a year is up, I'm either earning a living as a writer, or I go back to the grind, and it will all just have been a strange experiment.

Feeling fairly confident that my answer has already inspired the creation of this thread, I can only add that my benefactor would have to be seven-figure rich, studly gorgeous, kinky, kind, fun and adventurous.

Any less than that, and the quality of my novel will suffer.



I might still complete it. But Times Best Seller List might be doubtful.

Should I hold out?

Step 1) Hide from "Daddy". Eew.

Step 2) Trade up for a Sugar Mamma

Step 3) Travel travel travel travel travel

Step 4) Study for fun

Step 5) Work at Disneyland

A good 6 figures a year would do it for me.

I would probably do the exact same thing I am doing now, just in a nicer space.

Travel. Fine clothing. A really cozy house.

The thing is, I wouldn't ever be happy if I was trading favors for cash. Especially sexual ones. As a wise man once said, "Give it away give it away give it away now." I guess one could say I'm living off of my husband to some degree because he makes more than I do, and I couldn't afford our lifestyle without his salary....but of course I'd respond with the usual mushiness about how I'd live in povery with him if need be.

At one point I was a benefactor for my husband....ask him what he did with that time. ;)

My benefactor, would be some wealthy guy/rich hieress incognito who I turn a good favor fairytale style - help change tire, share some food, pull a thorn, etc. He or she enjoys my conversation and sensibilities, and sends me abroad to collect new experiences and find new things to tell about. Perhaps my benefactor is an international art dealer, and my charge is find the emerging creatives in a variety of communities, who in turn recieve the patronage of my benefactor as together we build a string of aesthetic communities around the globe. Or so my fantasy goes at the moment

I was being frugal, using as little energy as possible so as not to strain our finances.

Actually, this is hard for me to imagine because I like being in charge. I earn just about double what my husband makes -- and hopefully in three years I'll make double what I currently make. I just assume that I'll get to do all the things I want to do once I earn enough. Some of the things I really want to do involve time travel. So if my sugar daddy could make that possible that would be super.

I can't really imagine what I would do with myself if I didn't have to work. I suppose I'd create work. I guess that's why rich people develop charitable foundations. I'd do that. Bunches of them. For all the things that deserve to be funded but aren't. Libraries. Community theater. P-patches.

Oooh! Is the sugar daddy influential? Can they get me some alone time with the textiles in the V&A museum? Manuscripts in the British Library? OOOH! Unfettered access to the near-mythical Vatican archives? And concentrated studies in dead languages so I'd know what the heck I'd be reading?

Then again, maybe I'll get to do that stuff anyhow when I'm President...