What would you do if you won a million dollars? I would take a year out of my life and

[applegrove]

live a few months in Paris, a few months in Italy, and a few months in the Seychelles. It doesn't even matter if this dream doesn't come true...just dreaming it is enough of a pleasure to make it worthwhile. Course I'd donate some money to charity too.

[nolabear]

1. Set aside some to help the sons start their businesses and quit worrying.

I don't worry too much anyway but the spectre of old age is a mean one. I might travel a bit too, but I can do that now with a little frugality.

[krispos42]

2. Set myself up so I wouldn't have to worry about a house again.

Buy a modest house in the town and school district I'm currently living in. 1,500 square feet or so. That would take about half of it, maybe a bit more.

I'd make sure the house was heavily insulated, install new windows, and high-efficiency solar panels and maybe a solar water heater. And of course, I'd have to furnish it.

Now I have a house that is extremely energy efficient, which will save me tons of money in the 50 years or so I expect to live in it.

With that load off my mind, hopefully forever, I'd put about $100,000 into a college fund for my kid, and save the rest for college, taxes, and expenses.

Whatever I had left after finishing my degree and getting a job, I'd roll most of it over into a retirement fund of some sort because, hey, I have to get started at some point.

With no mortgage, I'd give generously to charitable causes every pay period.

[OhioBlue]

3. Build a house, a green one...

I would like to hire an architect to design the most energy efficient house while using the greenest, least toxic materials. Maybe take a year off and finish my degree while helping mom and significant other with their businesses, college fund for the kiddo, better vehicle, pay off significant other's business loans, build a workshop (really just a pole barn with 220), Health insurance for brother, sis-in-law, dad and step-mom, Depending on what was left, there are a few other family members I would like to help out and maybe buy a downtown building and rehab it. I would also like to plant a small orchard and build some better raised beds. (but maybe with the money I could put in a proper drainage system in the field behind us and we wouldn't need the raised beds as much)

[freshwest]

4. Similar desires, would try to create a sustainable place for a number of people.

I have the knowledge, but not the money. I'd like to get as far off the system of control as possible and take as many as I could with me.

[HopeHoops]

5. Give about a third of it to charities - homeless shelter, battered womens' shelter, food bank,...

I suppose I'd probably invest the rest to get interest both to live on and to continue donating.

[Bucky]

6. I would buy pie

[AngryAmish]

7. I would do two chicks at the same time, man.

[Bunny]

9. That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time?

Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I were a millionaire I could hook that up, too; 'cause chicks dig dudes with money.

Well, not all chicks.

Well, the type of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me do.

[cherish44]

8. I'd finally stop worrying about how I'm going to pay for my daugher's college

Seriously she's a high school sophomore and I'm having panic attacks...

[Bunny]

10. Run off to Paris with my guy.

And stay there.

[frogmarch]

11. help people and animals

in need.

My favorite fantasy when I imagine winning a million dollars is buying a lot of land in the country and turning it into a refuge for dogs and cats and other domesticated animals.

[Kali]

12. buy the small place to the east, put in a couple more wells

pay somebody to redo and install some new fencing, buy a decent vehicle or two (used is fine), maybe a couple good horses, fix the house build a real pool, travel for a month or so to Australia, then whatever is left could be banked/invested to piddle and give away as I felt like.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. tell my boss to kiss my ass good bye.

[KamaAina]

14. Wasn't there a movie kind of like that?

With this on the soundtrack?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP_jsy6Trrc

[KamaAina]

15. Start a progressive think tank

One million would actually be kind of a shoestring budget; it would generate interest income of around 50 grand a year, enough to support me but not really to bring on any fellows or anything.