What would you do if you won the lottery?

[ravfem]

This is pretend, so might as well make it really good!

Let's say you won $50 million after taxes in the lottery.
What would you do??

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me? Oh...where to start

-i'd give all my clothes away, except for one special sweater, and go on the shopping spree from heck!

-pay off my few bills

-have homes in SF, NYC and Asheville, NC

-get my Mustangs!

-charter a ship & cruise over to the UK to do some visiting

-open my school

-give bunches to bunches of causes i love

-have weekly shipments of See's chocolates sent to me

-set up a monthly stipend for my son for as long as he's in college and after he graduated, until he got on his feet

-take some classes like ASL & dog training

i know there's more, but that's enough to get started.

[Tucker]

I would donate it to animal charities.

Specifically No-Kill shelters.

They need it far more than I do.

[Jesse]

Well first I would hire a team of financial advisers, then I'd disappear...

[suebee]

Fifty million? That's a lotta dough!

Oh well.....the usual suspects: pay off debts, build a nice - okay....FABULOUS house in the country, help my family....we all know them.

I'd love to have a 1958 MGA. Baby blue. Just because I could.
My fun car: a mini cooper. Yeah. Goes like hell!
My bike: a pan-am spyder:



Yeah! Just like that one!

But what I'd really like to do is have enough land around my FABULOUS home to have an animal refuge. Exotic and farm animals that have been thrown away, a parrot retirement resort, so they don't have to go to a dozen more homes in their lifetimes, and a foster home for my fav dog breed - australian shepherds.

Of course I'd have enough staff so I could drive my bitchin' cars, and travel, and not have to worry about the critters.

Oh yeah. And I'd spoil my beautiful butch lady rotten!

And eat Ben and Jerry's ice cream whenever I wanted to!

Nuff?

[Soft*Silver]

I would pay off all my debt...

and my sister's debt, including her house, for being so good to me when I was down and out

I would give my daughter the wedding she never thought she would have, pay off her student loans and buy them a huge house and set up college funds for grandbabies

I would donate to the newfoundland dog rescue a huge sum of money

I would buy the lot next door and set up a kennel to rescue local mixes from our high kill pound. I would train residents from a local drug addiction rehab program to work with the dogs and then adopt the dogs out when ready.

I would buy two horses and pay up my board for twenty years.

I would buy a truck...blackberry blue

I would buy a tumbling composter

and some clothes. I havent bought clothes for myself in ages.

I would buy a zillion primroses and line my walk with them

I would fix the ceiling in my kitchen where it was damaged when I left the upstairs faucet on and it leaked all over the floor and thru the ceiling

I would get a cell phone and my hair cut and cable tv

I would replace my china I had to sell when I lost my farm

I would pay for top surgeries for some trans friends of mine.

I would fence in my yard with a white picket fence

I would donate to this site...so that people could have memberships who couldnt afford them as well as scholarships to go to the reunion

I would fund the reunion for a decade

I would buy lots of nail polish

and a small freezer

I would put money away for a rainy day

[WolfyOne]

I would start a shelter for cats
With what I've seen since living in Oklahoma,
I'd want to also educate people on spay/neuter
Why it's so important to have it done
and bringing an animal home is a lifelong commitment

[Guy]

Spoil my girl

Help my family and friends

Buy a boat (um not quite as large as Jesse's) lol

Travel

[Blade]

First I'd do all the transition stuff then I'd buy at least 100 acres in the mountains and build a log cabin on it. New Tundra of course. Build my parents whatever where ever they wanted it, same with my best friend. Then I'd take a trip to Alaska and a trip to Australia. Come home and tour every state in the US. Course there would be some charity stuff in there too.

[Greyson]

If I did play the lotto and then by some miraculious stroke of time and space becoming non existence and rendering unto me all the money....... I would,

Give some of it away.
Hire a financial advisor.
Retire from this particular profession.
Buy a new home.
Take care of my loved ones.
Do a graduate program in something I feel passionate about.
And of course become a Lifetime Big $$$ Donor of this site.

[Gayla]

After the usual stuff, I'd go shopping. For a liver, a truck, a Sonic, a couple of west coast houses and a couple of east coast houses and a couple smack dad in the middle. A couple of big trucks to move some people out of where they don't want to be to where they do wanna be.

But the first thing I'd do? Go bid on Diva's cookies.

[SimpleAlaskanBoy]

Get a cabin built for my parents and one for me back in Alaska
get top surgery
go to Scotland, Paris, the Netherlands & Japan...and Sweden because I know daisy misses it and Alaska so I can see my family and daisy can meet them
buy daisy a car
get a suit made
spoil our cats and donate to no kill shelters and other worthy causes
get the basement finished and remodeled, along with the attic
personal chef!
&
Finally see Fenway park in Boston
buy an Xbox 360, a PS3, and a PSP

~SAB

[always2late]

If I won the lottery:

I would set up a trust fund for my son and my two nieces.

I would set up a non-profit foundation that gives grants for transitional surgeries and related expenses (an idea of mine for years...but no money to make it come true...I even have the name of the foundation picked out! )

Travel to everywhere and anywhere I've ever wanted to be and see

A house in the mountains and one near a beach

And then, I would disappear to my above mentioned houses and only reappear for the monthly board meetings of my foundation

[Ebon]

Hook my family and friends up. Pay off debts etc...

Invest

Donate some to my favorite trans charity to supply surgery for people that can't afford it.

Get my own top surgery.

Try to visit every country on the planet earth. Some places with my baby and some without because she doesn't like camping.

Come back to the USA buy some land build a farm house and a buy a housee in the city. Live off of the money I invested. Start an organic farm with real food for humans to eat.

[chefhmboyrd]

first hire a lawyer

pay off debt for me and my family/friends
make sure that i invested wisely
set up a trust for my boys
build a eco friendly house on my newly purchase hobby farm
travel
buy a fleet of mobile kitchens to feed and deliver water to people in need

and i am sure there would be a special extra large BFP reunion at my expense

[Gemme]

Once I did the usual suspects, like paying off debts and whatnot, I'd set up separate accounts for a few folks.

I'd buy a house for my friend, Jennifer, and my heart nephew with one stipend. Her ex-husband is not allowed to live there. She's a sucker for him and if I caught him there (or my eyes and ears caught him there), then I'd have to get mean about it.

I'd give her family a nice chunk of change because they took me in when I had nowhere to go and tried to protect me as much as they could when I was younger. They're my surrogate family.

I'd give my dad and stepmom enough funds so that they can age comfortably.

I'd give something to a number of friends who are like family to me.

I'd buy a Sentinal membership here. And donate a lil sumthin sumthin to help keep the place running for a long, long time.

I have a number of friends who would like top surgery. I'd help them out with that.

I'd give Gayla a call and buy a nice property in WA and then call my old agent up and buy another small property in FL. I'd buy a lovely, much bigger property in TX since it's my home base now. I'd decorate said properties cuz I love that stuff.

I'd set up retirement and long term savings accounts in case I'm stupid and waste the rest of the money, which has happened to a lot of Lottery winners.

I'd take a year or two off to travel with my honey. We've agreed that he can go to the stinky, sweaty, nasty places and I'll stay in more civilized places and when he comes back to me, I'll check him for ticks.

Once we've seen what we want to see, he wants to set up an organic farm. Well, I'm not happy with knowing my meat, so I'd take a huge chunk of his land away from him and set up a children's home for the kids that fall through the system. From birth up to 19. I hate that so many kids age out of the system before they really know how to fend for themselves. We'd make use of Organic's veggie and grain part of the farm, teaching the kids how to grow, pick and prepare the food. There'd be a house of worship on the property as well as a school house. I'd have animals that have been rescued and the kids would learn to work with them, for job skills and emotional growth. Teaching kids how a family, a true family, operates and flows and functions is the goal. In the process, they'd heal and grow and become beautiful, lovely, loving people with enormous capacity for love. That is something we all need.

[betenoire]

I would pay off my parents house and ask them to gift it to my sister (she loves that house). I'd buy them a giant all-season cabin on a lake in the Ottawa Valley. I'd get them a second vehicle so my mom wouldn't be stranded every time my dad takes off hunting for weeks. I'd pay off my sisters student loans and get her whatever she wanted to drive. I'd pay off my debts.

I would get the hell out of stupid Sarnia and move back to Toronto where I would buy a nice condo in a high-rise with a balcony big enough for me to grow some tomatos and herbs on and near to a dog-park so Nick can have his cocker spaniel.

I would buy a fabulous 4 story Victorian in the College+Bathurst area and convert it into a backpackers inn. Then I'd get to spend my days around interesting and thrifty travelers.

I'd buy a Vespa. I would also buy a bus pass every month so that I'd be supporting public transit (cuz that's important to me) and I wouldn't have to shake down my laundry basket for change any time I had to go anywhere.

I would go to India. I would go to Thailand. I would go to Ireland.

I would go to University and study English - and then make no attempts to use my degree.

I would never eat ramen noodles again.

I would get a breast lift and ass implants. Shut up.

[WolfyOne]

I'm reading what everyone else wrote and I wonder if that makes me an oddball
I never once thought about using the money for myself when I posted
I just figured, animals need it hella lot more than me
I can go and work for the things I need to sustain me, they can't
I also thought, if I didn't have it by now, I didn't need it and learned to live without it
Material things cannot replace human or animal life
I find I need both species to enjoy life
Both bring me comfort in ways material things can't
I worry about both species and never about material things
I think I'd rather live poor and happy than rich and miserable

[Scorp]

Hide for a month or so to figure out what it is I would want to do with the $$$ and come up with my "giving/contributing" list.

Lastly, I'd let certain folks know I was ok and just needed some time (without disclosing where I was) and yes, I'd call from a payphone....

[Corkey]

Lets see 50 mill, well I'd put half in an interest bearing account, then spend the rest doing good things for our family, our extended family and be as generous as I could to the charities we give to.
That means that the Southwest Indian Foundation would have enough heating stoves for all of the Navajos, Pueblos and Apache who need them. The St. Joseph school for children would get an endowment and scholarship monies for Native kids to further their education.
Best Friends Society would have an endowment for all of the services they offer, including veterinary scholarships.
Then we'd go on a trip to Alaska.
Live still in our home if that is what we decide to do and not have to worry about being at another Reunion.

[princessbelle]

blow it.

Ok maybe not, maybe i would use my god given brains and do something useful and constructive, plan for my kid's future and give a lot away to charity and help the needy.

but, i would also blow at least some of it. I am certain that at the mall i would have a parking place with my name on it right in front of the shoe store.