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Bhaisahab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 06:25 AM
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What would you do with 20 million tax free dollars?
Apart from donations to charity etc! :)

Me? For starters, I'd like to own an island!
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rcrush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 06:35 AM
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1. Disappear
Edited on Thu Jan-07-10 06:35 AM by rcrush
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cbdo2007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 09:05 AM
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2. 10,000,000 McDoubles and 10,000,000 small fries from McD's. Then I'll
just sit there and eat them all until I explode.
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GoCubsGo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 09:08 AM
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3. See the World
And, buy land.
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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 09:23 AM
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4. open up a no-kill cat shelter eom
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fizzgig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 12:24 PM
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13. ...
:loveya:
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stray cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 10:06 AM
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5. Buy a house for one thing - a cheap one is one million around here
10 million anyway to start up a retirement account.
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Bhaisahab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 10:10 AM
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6. a cheap house for a million??
you need to shift! with 20 mil, there are lots of places on mother earth where you can live like royalty without being obscene. :)
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 10:31 AM
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7. First, get a case of beer I consider too expensive right now and then order a pizza.
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Bhaisahab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 10:39 AM
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8. Here's your most expensive beer:


Carlsberg Vintage No.1 – $395 per bottle

http://most-expensive.net/most-expensive-beer
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 11:06 AM
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11. I was thinking more like $40 a case.
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charlie and algernon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 10:54 AM
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9. Buy Hubert Keller's $5,000 hamburger
Edited on Thu Jan-07-10 10:54 AM by charlie and algernon
Then fly to London to eat BURGER KING'S $186 burger.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Worlds-most-expensive-burgers
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redwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 10:58 AM
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10. Pay off all my bills. Also my brothers and sisters bills.
renovate my house.
Buy Roon his no kill cat shelter.
Charitable donations to so many it's impossible to list here.
Set up trust funds for my sons, nieces, nephews and the children of a great many friends.
Set up a foundation to help people eat, stay warm, have a place to go.
Build retirement housing in our village.
Start a craft brewery with my son.
Take vacations.

And then I guess I'd be broke again!
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bikebloke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 12:19 PM
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12. Buy a small cottage in New Zealand.
Northland on the North Island. Then experiment growing my own food via permaculture methods.
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 12:25 PM
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14. Move to Amsterdam
And not look back


My New Home
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Eyerish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 01:00 PM
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15. To start, I would pay off all of our debt.
Pay off the debt of both of our families.
Buy my mom her own house.
Create trust funds for my nieces and nephew.
Contribute of to all of our favorite non-profits/charities.
Go back to school.
Travel the world.
Buy homes in Denmark and Ireland.
Buy land and build our dream home, including a working farm.
Live quietly and contently for the rest of our lives.
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mnhtnbb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 01:13 PM
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16. Build my dream retirement house on the lot where our house burned down
and not worry about having what I want cost 5 or 10 or 20 thousand over budget or only be able to
afford 2200 square feet instead of 2400 square feet.

Make a big donation to our local Habitat for Humanity--maybe buy some land for them.

Have to think about the rest of it.

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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 01:16 PM
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17. Buy Sweetie a new kitchen and whatever she wanted.
Pay my mother's mortgage.

Set up a fund to live off it. Be generous.
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-07-10 01:20 PM
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18. Relax...
Edited on Thu Jan-07-10 01:22 PM by gmoney
I'd walk away from my job, probably buy a modest second home someplace warm, do some first-class travel to a few places I'd like to see, and then see if I can live off the money and interest for the years I have left.

Also, buy an old building and make it a kickass photo studio... maybe I could get a good deal on Annie Liebowitz' place.

Probably live the life of the starving artist, but without the starving part. Do what I want, and not worry if it makes any money or not.

Oh yeah... help out my family, too. They're doing OK, but a little extra security would be good.
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