I like this idea. Save me the window seat!
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Weather machine research.
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Despotism.
Well first off, take the 26 payments option… Assuming 100mil IIRC first payment is like 2.6 million. That will cover every car, truck, house, credit card, old debt, and set up some pretty hefty trusts for the kids, still leaving a million. Go drop $100K at a jewelry store for my wife. Expand business into nice location. Living on $20K/mo should be doable.
Year 2 2.7-2.8 million.
Debts are covered, bank is feeling pretty padded, drop another
$100K on each of the kids trust funds, pay off family residences, take about 100 various family members on a nice hawaiian cruise.
Shift business into predatory pricing mode. Roll back prices to like -3% profit, advertise like there is no tomorrow, and watch the competition crumble. So I lose a couple hundred grand, no biggie, we are now the only game in town.
Year 3 shift business to +1% profit. Should work well since we will have a great location and a rep for great prices. Volume should net me at least +$100K or so. Start sponsoring community events making me into a pillar of the community as well as a successful business man.
Year 5 semi retire, occasionally buzzing in to make sure the biz keeps running.
Year 10 After watching the collapse of Dell and Gateway to my excellent company I will retire, sell my stock and buy an island somewhere. Invite managers and star employees to spend vacations there as long as they run things my way. Treated like royalty, flown in by my private jet, and totally spoiled rotten. The competition for employee of the month will be like the olympics of computer repair.
- Get a nasty, nasty lawyer and financial advisor
- Take the phone off the hook
- Pay off the house
- Build a garage
- Hell, buy the neighbor’s house and kick the renters out
- Kitchen and bath remodels
- World travel
- Go back to work. I can’t imagine winning the lottery and quitting and sitting around eating bonbons all day.
- Set that Sri Lankan orphan I sponsor up for life. They’re looking for money to get the kids bicycles and just remodeled a bathroom; boy are they gonna be shocked at the Christmas they get after I win the lottery! Less than a dollar a day my ass - Senani won’t have to wear the 1.50 underwear anymore.
Since I didn’t win last night, here’s my “Continue dreaming” list
- Dance of joy!
- Call in sick to work.
- Pay off husband’s student loans.
- Set aside enough to pay off my scholarships with service obligations if I choose to quit my current job.
- Hire a lawyer.
- Go house shopping. I want a single-family home on a decent plot of land. I don’t want to have to tell people to turn down their bass unless they live with me.
- Paint/furnish/decorate new house completely before moving out of current townhouse.
- Take a nice vacation.
- Take some time to send hubby and I back to school full-time.
- Invest the rest to be a supplemental income (off the interest) when we get out of school.
I’d open a wine bar here in Apple Valley, MN. We’d have the main room set up for socializing, but also smaller movie rooms. There would be the usual was-a-blockbuster stuff, but also show a lot in the zombie, pirate, anime realm…probably I’d be the only one in those rooms, but I’d have fun!
We’d also have Karaoke in the back, which would have a camera there to capture my patrons drunken singing styles! We’d then have that playing in the entry way to entice customers (or scare them away, depending on how you look at it.)
There must be other people besides me who want to go out with their friends to places that aren’t dance clubs or smoky sports bars.
If I had anything left over after my wine bar went belly up, I’d buy my parents a small, run down vineyard near California and tell them to go fix it up and retire already (far away from me tee hee!)
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[li]Pay off all my own debts.[/li][li]Help everyone else in the family pay off their own debts.[/li][li]Move into a nicer home.[/li][li]Get all the things I have really wanted but have not been able to afford.[/li][li]Travel to the places I have always wanted to visit.[/li][li]Sock away the rest for savings. Live off the interest.[/li][/ol]
- Set aside money for graduate degrees (probably two masters’ degrees)
- Pay off parents’ mortgages (they’re divorced, so there’s two)
- Put aside enough money for a simple but elegant wedding
- Buy/construct a house that fits our needs as a couple (this would mean a workshop for his art and a room for my crafts and a library/study area in addition to a couple of bedrooms and a couple of bathrooms)
- Nest egg/retirement fund (Neither of us have savings that isn’t going to go back out into rent/furniture/tuition/basic needs in a few months.)
- Establish a good trust to accept the money.
- Pay off all debt.
- Fix up the house
- Travel
- Most important…be able to sleep at night without worrying about how to pay the rent tomorrow.
- Pay off all personal debt, including mortgage.
- Buy a nice piece of waterfront property, and build a slightly larger home, with the features I really want. (granite countertops, wireless network, industrial kitchen appliances, hot tub, heated inground pool [indoor-outdoor], kickass home entertainment room.)
- Buy small “flying boat.”
- Learn to fly said “flying boat”
- Begin year long flying trip to fish & hunt the western hemisphere.
- Begin 2nd year with Asia/Africa/Europe version of 1st year trip.
- Open a small book store somewhere, with limited hours (to allow hunting/fishing).
Somewhere in there I’d take care of the mortages on my siblings (and in-laws) homes, and set the nieces/nephews & Butlerette up for college.
Buy a two-bedroom, two-bath house with enough land around to not have neighbors up-close.
Give some to my close friends who have four kids in college.
Keep a nest egg to repair the house.
Quit my current job and take the time to find something meaningful and maybe even enjoyable to fill my time.
Give the rest to non-profits I believe in.
Don’t leave us hanging! What did you do with it?
Already got one, and he’s pretty good.
That having been said, I read in the paper this morning that somebody won half of the $390M jackpot, and it was $80M, so let’s pretend it’s that much. [ul][li]My church gets $350K and pays off the mortgage. They also get another $4M so we can relocate. []One million to my mother-in-law’s church in her honor. []One million to my brother-in-law’s church, in honor of the 25th anniversary of his ordination.[]My folks’ church, another million.[]Another $650K to various charities - the Center for the Study of the American Experiment, the local and national Republican parties, various others.[]Pay off the house. []Trust funds for the kidlets. []One hell of a weekend for everyone in my family - fly them all in, set them up in a hotel, take them all shopping on Saturday, fancy catered dinner Saturday night, favors (like watches and/or jewelry) for everyone. []I got fifteen nieces and nephews. $25K apiece. []Invest the remainder, and live off the interest. At least one million in something as safe from hyper-inflation as I can find.[]I wouldn’t quit my job, but I suspect my attitude towards it would change.[/ul]Too bad I don’t play the lottery.[/li]
Regards,
Shodan
Newspaper and a donut. Last of the Big Spenders, I am! 
- get a lawyer and set up a trust.
- pay off my student loans, which are my only debt.
- remodel my folks’ home and then buy houses on ajoining properties for little bro and I.
- have fun furnishing said homes
- set up scholarships for kids who attend the high school I did, and donate to fund the school lit magazine.
- donate a fair amount to NH Reads
- I’m not much of a traveler, but my best friend and I - and maybe a few others - would be able to explore all the interesting places in Weird America over the summer.
- if I won a great deal, I might start a small publishing company.
With $80,000,000 I could see myself here or here. My family could stay here. I would put this man in charge of handling hand-out requests.
In order:
Don’t tell anyone except hubby.
Quit job
Set up minimum income fund for stepson which won’t kick in until 30.
Sell house.
Move to the west or east coast, somewhere near an ocean and whales into a house very similar to house in movie “Man without a face” Mel Gibson.
Travel.
So you blew it all in one place? :eek: