See, I feel much better about myself now. Cause I’d put about half away and only use the remaining 75k on hookers and blow. Only I’d describe it as pharmaceuticals and companionship.
Pay off the house and debt from our period of unemployment last year, go on a nice trip with my family, and invest the rest.
Pay off the balance of my mortgage - $40K
Install central heat and air - $10K?
Maybe a new roof…how much is an indoor arena and nice barn?
There isn’t much that I want, really. That’s not enough money to leave my job.
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Go on a cruise…maybe an around-the-world cruise if I could afford the vacation time.
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Consider buying a townhome.
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Something I’m unclear on related to opals…
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Set aside money to automatically pay my car note (I want the credit boost, so I wouldn’t pay it off outright).
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Buy a year’s worth of tennis lessons.
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Consider buying the FJR1300 I’d love to have.
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Save/invest the rest per the advice of a professional
ETA: 8) Buy a ping pong table.
Over here, if you win 150K you take home 150K. Of course, US$150K = £100K. So… pay off the mortgage, then pay for some tutoring to skill me up to get back to work.
I’d pay off our student loans, and with the remaining 90K take a huge chunk out of our mortgage.
50k- Put it towards grad school
100k- Figure out how to work with a foundation that can use this money to pay girls’ school fees in Cameroon. This kind of money could make my life slightly easier, but it could completely change a lot more people’s lives.
Mortgage payoff and a new 4x4 pick up truck.
Mortgage $0.00
Car $0.00
Grad school loans -$600.00 (My employer paid for the MBA, every stinking cent of it. When I was done I sold my books for $600.)
Credit Card Debt $0.00 (Not exactly, but we do pay it in full every month and haven’t paid interest in years.)
Misc. Debt $0.00
Well, I guess I’d just throw it in the bank with the rest of if so it wouldn’t be underfoot at the house.
Our mortgage for our main house has been paid off for some time now. My husband has a small farm in west Texas that he uses as a hunting range, I might put some money down on it, but then again, I might not.
I’d think about moving from the main house. Maybe I’d keep it as a rental, I don’t know. It was my grandparents’ house, so it has sentimental value, but it wasn’t well-planned, and I might just sell it off.
I might think about getting some dental implants. I’m not thrilled with my upper plate. Maybe implants would be nicer.
I think that I’d just invest at least half of the money in laddered CDs. That’s what I’m doing now with my extra money. I’d probably put more in my cushion of liquid assets, and then invest the rest.
I’d buy an apartment, a car, save a lot of it and perhaps give some to charity.
We’ve been saving up for a down payment on a house. This would get us the down payment, plus a little left over to do some repairs on our current house to get it in good condition for sale, and some to fix up whatever house we buy, if needed.
Pay off my student loans, refinance my mortgage after putting a chunk towards it. Maybe take a nice trip or two. My husband and I want to go to India, Argentina, Thailand, Australia, France… not that we’d go everywhere, but somewhere.
Probably put some of it towards IVF or other fertility treatments…
About a grand would pay off the little debts we have. I would put a nice chunk (at least $10,000 each) into college funds for our kids, bump up our emergency fund a little, (say, another $10,000), and put around $50,000 down on a new house/moving costs/repairs. Nothing fancy, just a small upgrade from where we are now. So I’m up to…around $80,000. I would replace my husband’s aging truck with something reasonable (less than $10,000). $5,000 for charity. The rest would go to a nice family trip or something.
No debt to pay down.
Median home prices here fell to $88,000 this month. So I would look into what kind of house I could buy outright for all that dough. I could probably strike a better deal with the promise of an outright purchase up front.
If that fell through, I’d use some for a nice trip to England and invest the rest.
Pay off our student loans and the car, stick the rest in the bank and take my time house hunting before I use the rest for a down payment.
Invest it outside of the country.
Live on it. It’s not enough for a big ticket item, but great to let you be fereer with your everyday spending.
I’d probably stick most of it into my superannuation fund.
My son is a junior in college, and my daughter a senior in HS, going to college in September. That money is already spent.