You Just Won $30 MILLION!! What are you going to do?

[Medusa]

You bought a lottery ticket. Your numbers were called. You just won $30 Million dollars.

Give us a detailed description of what you would do and how you would spend it!

[suebee]

I'd buy 15,000,000 more lottery tickets @ $2 each and CLEAN UP!

Naw. I got my list:

1) get a good financial advisor
2) pay off debts
3) help out some folks - family and chosen family
4) upgrade my transportation and lodging - as much for my critters as for me
5) there are a number of charitable organizations I'd love to help
6) maybe a little vacation

I don't have great needs, but I have more than this couple.

[little man]

first, i'd take my truck to the shop instead of fixing it myself.

i'd get a new pair of boots, too.

and a motorcycle.

i'd buy my youngest sister a house of her own and have her a pottery studio built out back, then give her enough cash to live on for a few years, until she got her art where she could live off the proceeds.

oh, and top surgery...finally.

i'll have to think on how to spend the rest....or just save it. nah, i'm too old to save it now...i'd spend my life traveling and thinking of ways to do some good with the cash.

i'll come back with more later.

[Diva]

Originally Posted by Medusa

You bought a lottery ticket. Your numbers were called. You just won $30 Million dollars.

Give us a detailed description of what you would do and how you would spend it!

I LOVE this "game"! I know exactly what I'd do.....I think.

I'm going to assume that 50% will be taken by the govt. Right?

1. Call my financial guy. I trust him implicitly.
2. Half of this will be in savings/investment/etc. ~ basically to gather more $.
3. So I have about 7.5 left......
4. That .5 is for me. I'm going to travel, buy a new car, and make my house more energy efficient (solar panels, tankless water heater,etc.). I love my home, so I'm going to stay here. I don't need anything more than this space (though I MAY make an offer on that woods in back of my home & have a new driveway installed). I will hire a housekeeper for sure.
5. 1 million in a trust fund for my daughter.
6. 1 million to Alzheimer's research.
7. 1 million to AIDS research.
8. 1 million to help feed the hungry in the US.
9. 1 million to help house those displaced in the US by acts of nature.
10. 1 million for arts education (music/art/theatre/dance).
11. 1 million for an organization similar to SAGE (in NY) here in Texas.


That was fun. Thanks, Medusa!

[Scorp]

Dayum woman...Get out of my head! You beat me to the punch. I just posted something about this in the other thread....

I would:

- Get an all year round place in St. Croix, Vermont or Colorado

- Have a huge party in Vegas and invite my friends and have my favorite bands play all night long

- Donate a large portion to MSPCA

- Pay off all my bills (of course)

- Take care of my family and close friends

- Donate to elderly folks in need of care, and places to live

- Buy stocks and invest

- Donate to hospitals and other needs for research to help cure cancer

- And yes Dusa..donate $$$ To The Planet

Originally Posted by Medusa

You bought a lottery ticket. Your numbers were called. You just won $30 Million dollars.

Give us a detailed description of what you would do and how you would spend it!

[Apocalipstic]

I would donate it all to scientific experiments....

NOT!

I woud hook up my sister and my close friends.
Donate to charity
Invest
Finish up all our house projects
perhaps add a pool
and
Travel!

[Kobi]

Not that I have given this any thought or anything:

1. set up a trust fund to pay me a yearly salary

2. buy myself a new condo with a garage and central air that is professionally decorated and maintained

3. buy my Mom a ranch style duplex so I can take care of her as she ages without losing my sanity, with a property manager to attend to the details and a go-fer to do things when I am not around

4. trust funds for my brothers, nephews, and pals who have stuck by me all these years

5. create an animal sanctuary for hard to place pets staff with people to help them become adoptable

6. create a foundation for educational opportunitites for older women....specifically to pay their living and educational expenses so they can quit their current jobs and concentrate on their next career

7. create a company for female tradespeople who provide services at reasonable cost/no cost to everyday people

8. create a foundation to provide first time homebuying women with downpayments

9. create a foundation to pay veterinary expenses for those unable to afford care

10. create a small living community for elder lesbians with independent, assist living, nursing home and hospice care.

Um, I think I'm going to need more money

[always2late]

I know exactly what I'd do...

I would set up a trust for my son, and both my nieces.

I'd set up a foundation that would award grants to cover all the costs of trans surgeries and related expenses. To this end, I would consult an excellent financial advisor to allow the trust to be self-sustaining with prudent investment. (I even have the name of the foundation picked out...had it for years...just not the money to make it happen!)

And then...because I'd still have some F-you money left over , I'd set up the little bookstore I've seen in my dreams (because I don't think I could NOT work), and it wouldn't matter if it made a profit or not (see the F-you money reference above). In addition to my small business, I would probably also become a "professional" student....just taking classes with no major in sight....about everything I've ever wanted to learn.

[JustJo]

1. pay the taxes...there goes half
2. pay off my mortgages (both of them) and all debts
3. fully fund both boys' college funds
4. send my dearest friend Annie to Hawaii for that reunion with her sisters
5. set up a trust at both of my alma maters, to provide scholarship money to women without the means to go (college changed my life for the better twice...I'd like to pass that along)
6. schedule that vacation to Puerto Rico
7. listen in while Scoote tells her boss to shove it
8. get that convertible Camaro
9. make some significant donations to St. Joe's Hospital (where my son was born, saved my mother's life, and did a needed surgery on my sister without payment)
10. donate to organizations doing research on cancer, diabetes and heart disease
11. donate to the Boys & Girls Club
12. and invest enough so we never have to work again

[Glenn]

No family or close friends.. don't like to travel or party.. so I'd give 98% to charities.

[Kenna]

after taking care of donations, debits, family, several dear friends and finding me a good Lupus specialist....

I'd take both of my nieces on a year long educational and exploration trip around the world.... with all kinds of fun but education things planned to inspire them to "reach for the stars". I dream of introducing them to Hands On Sciences (of many different fields), Archeology, Engineering, Social & Cultural opportunities, etc....all kinds of different "field trips" where they can actually get their hands dirty, climb mountains, and dive in oceans!! They would learn and retain so much more than their public schools have to offer by being cramped up in a stuffy class room...Real Hands On Learning... we'd set it up with their school that they could communicate with all their classmates/teachers via Live-cam with feedback, Q&A sessions and a journal of their experiences. We could even make their very own Documentary. An experience that they would never forget and would certainly give them opportunities and inspiration that I never had. Then I'd fund all of their future education and for them to get their Pilot's Licenses. (maybe such an exciting, busy and fun filled year away from "things" would take their minds off their current horrible hardships?)


I'd make sure 3 friends could quit their jobs.... one would get a new house near her daughter...the other needs good health care and a few other comforts to make sure they never want for anything....the third one will get a much needed respite and a special vacation.

I'd buy a small, humble part-time home near my nieces to spend all summers, birthdays and holidays with them.

I'd put my son through I.T. Tech School (since he refuses to go to college because he "learns different" and wants hands on...)

I'd find a very lovely place with lots of land in the mountains to build my Yurt...

[blush]

-trust/college fund for fuz
-retirement
-upgrade house-pool/hot tub, ginormous back yard, claw foot bathtub, outdoor kitchen, covered patio, landscape lighting, Habitrail room for guniea pigs, mud room for dogs, library, "gaming"/theater room, fireplace, bike repair/tool area
-house keeper, grounds keeper, cook,
-upgrade cars
-support OutYouth
-just hand money to teachers and veterans with no strings attached
-there's a group of homeless folks near our house we'd like to help out
-Buy a shit ton of Halloween/Christmas decorations so we can be "That House" every year.
-Travel-family and friends on European cruise, family trip to Disney, couples trip back to Europe and then to Hawaii and across Canada on a train

[cara]

1) Pay off that student loan once and for all.
2) Save and invest a good chunk of it.
3) Purchase a plot of land in the forest in the PNW and build a couple of these: http://www.tinygreencabins.com
4) Pay off my parent's condo and make sure my dad's medical bills are paid to date.
5) Give my brother and sister-in-law some of the money as a gift.
6) Help my Grammy and Uncle the best I can.
7) Buy a SmartCar.
8) Travel a bit.
9) Donate the rest.

if only...

[Rockinonahigh]

After the EMT's revive me from shock,I would.....not tell a soul.Why well ppl I know and family whom I havent seen in a bazillion years nor have spoken to will all of a sudden call themselves best buds and long lost loveing family..I may be a goof ball but I aint stupid.Then I would stash 25% of whatever is left after taxes somewhere for rainy days..then I would....

1- Give my son a million bucks..he will inherit a bunch sooner or later.

2-Take 25% to live on and do things I always wanted to do.

3-Donate some to places I want to see contenue being around..bfp for shure.

4- After I finish going places, I would open a couple of buisness I have wanted to have.

[BestButchBoy]

Dear [Insert girls' names who decided it was okay not to return my phone call],

Sorry you didn't call me back. I had called to tell you I won $30M in the lottery and wanted to know if you would like join me at my villa in Italy and do some shopping in Milan.

Oh well, I'm sure you are too busy to travel anyway.

Love and knishes,
Mr. B



[tongue.firmly.implanted.in.cheek.not.really]

[torchiegirl]

*feverously dialing Mr. B

"The number you have reached is no longer in service"

[Billy]

Originally Posted by cara

1) Pay off that student loan once and for all.
2) Save and invest a good chunk of it.
3) Purchase a plot of land in the forest in the PNW and build a couple of these: http://www.tinygreencabins.com
4) Pay off my parent's condo and make sure my dad's medical bills are paid to date.
5) Give my brother and sister-in-law some of the money as a gift.
6) Help my Grammy and Uncle the best I can.
7) Buy a SmartCar.
8) Travel a bit.
9) Donate the rest.

if only...

With all that money you could bye a car bigger than that lil smart car !

[torchiegirl]

I'd buy every shade of red lipstick and write Mr. B's number on restroom mirrors across the country.

[cara]

Originally Posted by Billy

With all that money you could bye a car bigger than that lil smart car !

True, but having lived without a car for the last...almost 3 years...i don't really want or need anything bigger. I might go with something Hybrid, though.

[WolfyOne]

$30 Million, I'm going to Disney World and taking ya'll with me