Lottery$$$$$$$$
 

OK, you have won a million bucks, after taxes. Here you go, here's your check. Too much to spend at the Five&Dime store but not enough to buy (or influence much) the Presidency. Other than obviously buying me nice presents, what would you do with the money?

Pay da debts and throw a HUGE party then in a drunken stupor donate some $ to NAMBLA in NBN's name!:D

Oh jesus!! LMAO!!

Well lessee: Pay off the old debt, new wheels, clothes, camera equipment, open dream photo studio, invest, donate to worthy charities.

Not in any particular order. :D

Haha! Nothing But NAMBLA. I like it.

I know you could manage the drunken stupor part OK.

If I won a million bucks the first thing I would do is buy your house. You're wrecking the property values around here. :rolleyes:

The thing is, a million dollars isn't enough to live on, so I would use it to create some interesting, income-generating, productive, fulfilling business, and then live on the income from that instead.

Probably a recording studio, because that requires a lot of up-front money for which you can then just bill hourly time on for the rest of its existence. And for me it would be totally fulfilling as a combination of tech, computing, and creativity.

Either that or I would hire some friends and start a software development biz just to build a few ideas.

Alapaca farm. Maybe a few horses. Definitely an old stone farmhouse with matching barn.

I would blow it on stupid shit because lottery is for retards.

First: Trade condo for house with big basement. Pay in cash.
Second: Metalworking lessons. I've always wanted to be able to make metal oddments.
Third: Metal shop in basement.
Fourth: THIS

...For the techie who has everything?Actually it sounds pretty cool.I'll bet they make a fortune.Hi folks.First time poster.I've been lurking(and laughing my a-- off) for a couple of weeks.Peace.

my lottery dream
 

Geez, though Bruce. Only a million? Post tax?

oh well, better than nada

1) pay off my debts
2) buy two cars...Avalanche for me, Durango for Dagney
3) marry aforementioned Dagney
4) buy a small house (we picked one out already)
5) shopping trip to Woodworkers Warehouse for tools to go in my new woodshop, which I will build adjoining the house.
6) invest the rest as wisely as I can, for our "retirement"


I prefer my BIG lottery dream tho

same as above, but change step six to read:

6) buy big fargin RV, trailer one of the cars, and motor about the US, sightseeing and buying doodads for the house, which we will visit now and then to unload doodads and rest before setting out again. Goal, to see all 50 states.

I like this one best when the Powerball gets over $100 million, which is my minimum jackpot before I will buy any tickets.

Brian

Pay off the debts, get a big piece of land (one square mile minimum), coupla horses, some moocows, mebbe some goats, build charming survivalist bungalow with certain special someone, make charming country handicrafts (and handloaded ammunition).

A shotgun shell cozy, maybe? :)

I'd pay off the mortgage, and probably take a nice (but not extravagant) vacation. (I've always wanted to visit Egypt and see all the tombs & monuments, so that'd be a good candidate.) Maybe a couple toys here and there that I otherwise wouldn't be able to foot the bill for, like a digital SLR.

With what's left, invest it, and use it for two college educations when the time comes, with an early retirement nest egg for whatever's left.

- Take a Cruise in the south Pacific for about a month to unwind and relax and ponder the future as a potential millionaire with correctly invested funds.

- Once returned from the cruise, purchase an A Class Automobile.

- Buy an old federation home and convert the building in to totally internally renovated Real Estate office, to be the first of a national chain of agencies all profiting solely to me.

- Become Australias most prominent business woman and estate agent in history

- Once a multi millionaire, start up a charity fund in my agencies name for the protection and rescue of animals and their habitats.

- Then have a drink of Coconut Rum and kick back watching the money tree grow.
:joylove:

Re: my lottery dream
 

I would have put a woodshop next to the metal shop in my fantasy basement, but I was getting close to the million mark, and my dad has a decent woodshop already. All of my furniture (except my office chair) is handmade or other people's castoffs. I can't bear to buy furniture if I could make it...

If I ever manage to pick up a digital camera, I'll show off in Quality Images...