If You Won The Lottery...

[QueenOfCalifornia]

Would you:




(edit to correct dumb-assed typo)

[SteppingRazor]

1. While I do actually like my job, if I won the lottery, I'd be gone.

Too many places I need to see.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

3. Yeah,

I have never liked a job enough to keep it if I suddenly came into a heap of money.

I ask this because a long time back, a man in CA won the lottery... He worked as a peon at a box making company. He kept his job as a cardboard folder and paid off his tiny mortgage and then gave the money to his pack of liar relatives. For some reason, this small story I read long ago, has stuck with me as an example of what not to do....

[Tektonik]

2. If I won the lottery I probably would not travel at first

I'd be more preoccupied in finding a way to safely invest a large portion of the money, and also I'd want to build my own house in the Socal desert & mountains. I'd love a house in Acton.

[jmowreader]

4. I have a great job, but I'd still buy (some of) the company

I know a great place to put a second branch: outside Fort Lewis, Washington. I'd buy a nice midsized general aviation aircraft (something like a King Air C90 or a Socata TBM850) so I could get back and forth between Washington State and North Carolina fairly easily, buy an abandoned warehouse in the Northwest and put about thirty printers in it.

[edbermac]

5. I like photography, so travelling the world with my camera.

And shooting hot babes in my studio when I'm at home. :evilgrin:

[flvegan]

6. Give some to family, put the rest in trust

Let the interest pay my bills. That is of course considering it's one of my local lotteries that rarely get over $20 million, which is little more than an $8 million payout after taxes. I'd keep working, and bank every dime, and retire in 10 years or so. THEN, I'd enjoy my money a little. I'd keep the trust functioning donating any windfall to charity each year.

Okay, I'd buy a Lamborghini Gallardo as a gift for my hard work picking those numbers. And maybe a boat. But the rest goes into trust.

[LeftyMom]

22. I do not see the phrase "long-suffering girlfriend" anywhere in that post

Dude, see if I buy you any cool shit with my imaginary money. :P

[Wcross]

7. I would buy a couple of thousand acres of farmland.

I would build a nice passive solar off grid home right in the middle of it all. I would install a private airstrip & buy some toys such as this;


1946 c-46

I would also want a couple of good aerobatic aircraft such as an extra 300 & a pitts special. Maybe something practical like a single engine turbo-prop as well.

I would also set up a "no kill" animal shelter but I would keep it very quiet. I would take in animals from the shelter who would be otherwise put down. I would probably hire local teens to help care for the animals & interact with them. If I won enough money I would help a recent Vet school grad who wanted to set up a practice in the area to get started & keep him/her on retainer.

[Miss Carly]

8. easy.......

pay off the bills, sell everything, have a summer home in Colorado and a winter home in the Caribbean, all would be well....

They say that money does not buy happiness, well, I would love to have a chance to see for myself.....

[QueenOfCalifornia]

10. welcome to our little

corner of HELL!

I am with you - Except, I lived on St. Croix and I really prefer Hawaii - I think my 1/2 the time home would be near or in Cambria CA and the other part of the year The Big Island of Hawaii near Kona with a cliff side view of the ocean.

[krispos42]

9. I'd take the annuity payments

No way in hell I'd risk more-than-ample financial security until retirement age!


I'd probably buy a place in Vermont or New Hampsire. Build a nice house on the property. Try to make it self-sufficient, both for environmental reasons and "just in case" reasons. Buy a plane, and have my own grass runway on my property.

I'd probably have to bribe my ex and her b/f to move nearby, though. Maybe buy them a house.

Fly down to Connecticut every weekend to visit my family.

Try to buy a radio station someplace and get some more liberal talk on the air.

[Initech]

11. I'd buy a nice condo and a nice car (something fun to drive).

I'd also pay off my existing vehicle and travel a whole fucking lot. I dont gamble, so Vegas wont be a problem.

[grace0418]

12. Not only would I quit my job, I would go into the office the night I won, clear out

every trace of my personal stuff and just plain not show up. When they called me at home to ask where I was, I would act like I had no fucking idea who the hell they were and demand to know how they got my phone number. Obviously, I know they'd have my pay history on file, but it would be so fun to make them scratch their heads for awhile.

But seriously, I couldn't quit my job fast enough. I fantasize about it on a daily basis. After quitting, I'd take a nice trip to New Zealand, Australia and Asia. Then come back and sit down with a good financial planner. I'd take care of my family and my husband's family (assuming we won a really large amount), and then start finding ways to do some real good with the money. And travel, like crazy. I want to see so many places. That would be the ultimate dream come true.

[Inchworm]

13. I'd get my student loan out of default

And become a professional student. Well, I'd do all that after a hella long road trip.

:hi:

[bookworm65t]

14. first thing I'd do would be to get locks on our doors

seriously.

Our locks haven't worked in several years, but we live in a little village with almost no crime (DUI, domestic violence only) so far. So we never got around to replacing the locks. With a lottery win, we would have to to fix the problem IMMEDIATELY!:o

[QueenOfCalifornia]

26. Maybe

even new doors?

[Chan790]

15. Two words:

Grad school

[DarkTirade]

16. I'd start my own business.

[Fox Mulder]

17. I'd travel.

I'd spend my time visiting every place I want to see.

I'd give a lot of it to various causes I support as well, such as the ASPCA.

[bixente]

18. It wouldn't be so simple as to

run outside and buy the necessary tickets, but once my various affairs are in order, with such an abundant sum, I would surely focus it on travelling to my two favourite countries, Japan and Iceland.

[mwooldri]

19. Even winnig the lottery means I won't be able to fire my boss.

Unless the Lottery was in the billions of dollars would I then be able to mount a takeover bid for the company I work for. It's too darn big.

If I did win many millions on the lottery I would quit my job, buy some real estate for the family (so they'd have no more house payments to pay), splurge about a million of it on things such as donating to charities I like, and then put the rest into a trust fund that would pay out over time so I'd have a revenue stream and money to live off of and then finding something nice to pursue and "do good" around where I live.

And that's about it!

Mark.

[SoxFan]

20. If I won da lottry

Sing with me now!!!

If I won da lottry for Christmas
I'd go out and celebrate
With a bottle of under-ground water
That comes from across the lake

If I won da lottry for Christmas
We don't have to spend a whole bunch
I'd take up a course at Delgado
And eat at Bud's Broiler for lunch
If I won da lottry for Christmas
I'd fix all the holes in the street
I'd bring back the Jackson Brewery
Where they used to have Pontchartrain Beach

If I won da lottry for Christmas
I'd give some to the S.P.C.A.
Give some to the Toys That's For Tots
Spend the rest on myself at John Jay

Spend a whole bunch at Bud's Broiler
Fix up the holes in the street
Spend the rest on a Toys For Tots party
Move John Jay's out to Pontchartrain Beach
We'd vacation at the Broadwater Beach

That's on the Gulf Coast, you know
But let's not forget the less fortunate
Who stay home in Westwego - oooooh

Now look, you're laughin you think it's funny.
But when I win da lottry, me and Herby Jerbez
We're gonna put air-condition in the camp out in Little Woods. I'm gonna build my little brother-in-law a house,
A big house in Buccaneer Villa North.
I think I'm gonna buy that Carnival Cruise Line, and
Me and Therese can take a little trip, you know.

If I won da lottry for Christmas
I'd have the grass all nice and mowed
I'd get 'em to shape the Ligustrum
To look just like Fats Domino
If I won da lottry for Christmas
Your Daddy, he's gonna be glad
He won't have to drive your Mama to bingo
I'll put her in a Metry Cab

You Daddy ran over to bingo
Your Daddy ran up on the grass
He ran over your Mama's Ligustrums
Last night in a Metry Cab

We wanna wish peace on earth
To all the Yats all over the world
And send Goodwill to everybody's house
Where they got stuff on the front porch
That needs to be picked up

If we won da lottry for Christmas
We'd probably just give it away
So you better come by if you want some
We'll have nothin by New Years day!

IF I WON DA LOTTRY FOR CHRISTMAS
(Benny "Grunch" Antin)

[CBHagman]

21. Really, a combination of several of those.

I'd want to keep the win quiet, I would immediately seek financial advice, and I would look to the long term. There's not a person alive who hasn't thought what it would be like to have all that money, but from what I've read, the best way to handle it is to keep working at your job and live somewhat modestly.

But I would make that trip to Paris, and have a great weekend in New York with a bunch of friends...

[Callalily]

23. I'd immediately start

booking a vacation while giving my two weeks notice at work.

I've already mapped a strategy :) and my financial advisor's phone number is on speed dial! :rofl:

[Richard Steele]

24. I have no "job"; I'm an ARTIST.

I'd send my sister 100 grand to fund her firstborn who just went
off to college, and I'd put another 200 grand into short-term funds
for her daughters who'll be following him shortly...

After that, I'd toss a million apiece to Mom and Dad. Lord knows they deserve it
after all the crap they dealt with raising me.



And then I'd use whatever was left to sweep across the face of this planet
like a bloody tornado;
enforcing my will without let or hindrance,
CRUSHING my enemies in battle,
watching them DRIVEN before me,
and listening to the lamentations of their "significant others".



That's just the kind of guy I am, knowhutImean?

[NMDemDist2]

25. we'd retire, find a section of land with water and hire a good architect

to get plans for an off the grid house with an observatory

and go shopping :evilgrin:

[SammyWinstonJack]

27. I'd blow this pop stand and take my family members, those that wanted to go, with me.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

28. I'd buy the business but I'd do it in disguise. Mustachio and Texas accent. Then when >

the old boss finishes signing the papers I rip off the mustachio and reveal myself. "Ha-HA, Mr. Angelini, 'tis I, and You Are Fired!"

Then while laughing maniacally, I engage my Heelys and skate off into the sunset.