What would you do if you won the lottery?

ravfem · 09-01-2010, 10:34 PM

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 · 09-01-2010, 10:36 PM

I would donate it to animal charities.

Specifically No-Kill shelters.

They need it far more than I do.

Jesse · 09-01-2010, 10:56 PM

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

suebee · 09-01-2010, 10:57 PM

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?

WolfyOne · 09-01-2010, 11:07 PM

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 · 09-02-2010, 12:03 AM

Spoil my girl

Help my family and friends

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

Travel

Greyson · 09-02-2010, 12:14 AM

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.

Soft*Silver · 09-01-2010, 11:02 PM

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

Blade · 09-02-2010, 12:12 AM

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.

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ravfem Senior Member How Do You Identify?: i'm a girl Relationship Status: negative Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Georgia Posts: 1,811 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,239 Thanked 3,126 Times in 1,270 Posts Rep Power: 1969286	What would you do if you won the lottery? 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?? __________________________________________________ ________________ 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. __________________

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