[quote]Originally posted by hot_pastrami
[b]You mean besides doing two chicks at the same time?[b]

OMFG! Hot Pastrami - I love you!!!!! Office Space kicks ass.

Anyway - buy a house and invest the heck out of it for the 3 step-kids/1 little sister/1 god child college fund.

Oh - and pay off my own student loans. And build a really really nifty game room in the new house with reclining massaging computer chairs.

100 acres is nowhere near big enough.

Too fucking close!!!!

well, our funds would be limited by the number of participants.....so we buy a 100 acre lot at the end of a mile long road.........you're in charge of security.

If we choose the right area, land is cheap enough that we could get a "large" parcel (i.e., 700+ acres for the cost of that 100 acre parcel in Colorado.)

But yeah, security sounds good. I can do that.

I get that a lot. Careful though, my wife is willing and able to defend her territory. :D

Solid retirement investment, secure healthcare and travel travel travel. I don't think I'd like the headache of owning multiple properties. I'll just go visit other people's.

Lessee...I'd pay off my debt, Rho's debt and my parents' house. Then I'd sock away the money I need for grad school. Then I'd buy Rho and I nice cars (nothing grandiose) and we'd go travel for a while...maybe a couple of months or so.

After all that, there'd still be a lot of money left, so I'd probably buy us a nice place in Chicago and sock the rest away in stocks, money markets, bonds, etc.

Common thoughts; Clean up past debts, provide for kids education (not always ones own) and invest in a secure income for the future. The sort of rational and responsible thinking I'd expect from this group. :)
Since I have no debts (monetary) or kids and the future is nebulous at best, I'd often thought I'd like to be a mini-John Bearsford Tipton. I would imagine most of you are too young to know who that is. There was once upon a time a TV show called the Millionaire, where JBT through one Michael Anthony, gave strangers a million dollars, tax free. The catch was they could tell no one where they got it.
I know so many people that merely 5 or 10 thousand dollars would turn their lives around.......or upside down. When it comes to money people can get really strange. If people know you got a million and you give them $10K, there will be some that resent not getting more, some that will be eternally grateful even some that will refuse the gift.
My bet is it would get me laid....a lot. :blush:

I've always thought that it would be much more charitable to use that kind of money to build something, instead of just giving it away. I've always thought that building something was an investment in the future, that the jobs it could create ripple out improvements in lives all over the place.

Then I actually tried to start a business, and it died. My final month I was unable to pay one employee and it almost killed me.

So now I don't know.

Keep in mind Bruce that you posed this question to a more...shall we say, thoughtful lot.

As I've gotten older, I've grown more selfish. And that's not necessarily a bad thing, as I was ridiculously selfless growing up. But I can only imagine what would happen if I won the lottery...I'd have a bunch of punk-ass motherfucking "friends" and relatives that I could give two shits about beating down my front door, looking for a handout.

If I ever won a substantial sum of money, the first thing I would do is take care of myself and Rho. Everyone else is next in line. Depending on the amount of money, I may or may not quit my job. Even if I won a huge sum, I wouldn't quit right away, b/c I'd have to figure out the health insurance deal.

But the ultimate goal is to set myself up so that the Social Security check that I hope to collect beginning in 2045 will merely be "free money".

I don't want to portray myself as a wannabe philanthropist or building a better world for the children (cringe). I just thought it would be a fun way to play with the money.:D
Having a business fail can be devastating on many levels. Not the least of which being forced to reevaluate your core beliefs. I'm in awe of entrepreneurs that can start a business from nothing and then sell it with complete emotional detachment. Then again, the ones I've met, I didn't like very much personally.

TOAD....
i've been wondering......your title used to be 211.5...now it's 210.0.....this is your decreasing weight? what was the starting point?