Possibly OT: What would you do if you won the Lottery?

[Wonkster]

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Don't do anything foolish with your bonanza now!

 

[Icebear]

Mostly the same things I said a few years ago when we had this thread.

 

[triaddukefan]

Well the lottery drawing would be too late for me...... but if I had won last week.... I'd probably use some of it to pay off the refs in tomorrow's game One million dollars a per ref would do it..... probably slip 100,000 to the clock operator as well.

 

[BooRadley]

Jellydonuts...

YOPB

 

[Samanthabrown3]

Vegan at the Yum! Center. Definitely.

 

[rvwsleep]

The same advice I've been giving for some time now in these situations.
Just one word, are you listening ? Plastics.

 

[pap49cba]

I'd have opted for building a very high, impenetrable fence around the entire state of Tenn.

 

[rvwsleep]

Well the lottery drawing would be too late for me...... but if I had won last week.... I'd probably use some of it to pay off the refs in tomorrow's game One million dollars a per ref would do it..... probably slip 100,000 to the clock operator as well.

I think that would be just short of what is necessary.

 

[Phil]

I'd wonder how it is possible to win without buying a ticket.

 

[msf22b]

Thanks for reminding me to buy a ticket.

 

[semper]

I would start a center that trained autistic people for jobs, and link the center to actual employment, with job coaches who would work with them until they succeeded. I would start more factories for recycling that employed autistic adults, like the wonderful Blue Star Factory in Colorado Springs. Every city should have one (or two), run as non-profits that employ and that work for environmental causes at the same time.

Please don't bomb South Bend.

 

[Icebear]

1. Secure my parents care at home for as long as they live.
2. Pay for all my nieces and nephews education all the way to doctorates and reimburse my brothers and in-laws for costs to date and establish a scholarship
3. Purchase the local nursing home a restore it to a community board for oversight and management.
4. Purchase the local truck stop and establish profit sharing for all the employees.
5. Build 5 Habitat for Humanity homes per year.
6. Build the envisioned retreat center at our synodical church camp and provide an annual retreat for every pastor.
7. Establish a mission fund at my congregation for members to go out in annual service locally and to disaster areas.
8. Provide free professional training for kids to become church organists.
9. Found a charitable foundation to handle all referrals seeking assistance.
10. Establish an enduring maintenance fund for both my home congregation and the congregation I have now served for 25 years.
11. Pay off the balance on the new hoops facilities at UCONN and put seat backs on EVERY seat in Gampel.
12. Hire U2 and Bono as our congregational worship band.
13. Buy a home in Branford because I still love my hometown.
14. Throw the best Boneyard post championship party ever.

 

[Huskyforlife]

1. Pay nick Saban whatever it takes to get him to coach our football team
2. Buy the greatest basketball arena in all of basketball
3. Buy warde all the donuts he needs so he can get back to work

 

[WillB4]

Jellydonuts...

YOPB

Brooklyn Bakery Jelly Donuts.

 

[reno tony]

I'd buy a nice zoo. Free Llama food for everyone. Donate tons of money to elderly, homeless and veterans in need.

 

[~*Jen*~]

Oh, those were funny. My real list is pretty boring, though.

1, Pay off my in-laws' house.
2, Pay off my FIL's medical bills. (Part of the reason why I'd do #1.)
3, Pay off our student loans.
4, Set up a college fund for mini chick.
5, Set up a fund to pay for mini chick's pre-college "education." (Ask me what my bills are like next year when I'm stuck with double dance tuition and triple costume fees, plus music classes, gymnastics, et cetera...)
6, Buy a house. (Long story but we're renting right now. I'm grateful for a roof over my head but I'd get something in another part of town. A middle school, a high school, the fire department, nature center, and hospital are all on my street!)
7, Set up a retirement fund.
8, Buy two new cars. Mine is old and hubby's is both ancient and not running.
9, Visit Europe. It sounds cliché but there are so many places I want to see. I'd like to give mini chick the opportunity to see these places, too, and incorporate it into her history lessons.
10, Donate, donate, donate. Not just save it for the holiday season.

 

[Bestiarius]

I'd wonder how it is possible to win without buying a ticket.

Find a winning ticket. That's my strategy. The odds are almost as good as buying a ticket.

 

[~*Jen*~]

Find a winning ticket. That's my strategy. The odds are almost as good as buying a ticket.

Oh, yeah. I can't win if I don't buy or even LOOK for a ticket. No wonder why I don't really think about this stuff too often.

 

[Shenandoah]

1) Take care of my kids and grandkids, and secure their education
2) donate to MS research
3) buy my brother a boat. he's a retired Corrections Officer, going through a divorce...and he loves to fish...
4) build an "accessible" house on our land in Wyoming, and get a couple of horses.

 

[meyers7]

1. Secure my parents care at home for as long as they live.
2. Pay for all my nieces and nephews education all the way to doctorates and reimburse my brothers and in-laws for costs to date and establish a scholarship
3. Purchase the local nursing home a restore it to a community board for oversight and management.
4. Purchase the local truck stop and establish profit sharing for all the employees.
5. Build 5 Habitat for Humanity homes per year.
6. Build the envisioned retreat center at our synodical church camp and provide an annual retreat for every pastor.
7. Establish a mission fund at my congregation for members to go out in annual service locally and to disaster areas.
8. Provide free professional training for kids to become church organists.
9. Found a charitable foundation to handle all referrals seeking assistance.
10. Establish an enduring maintenance fund for both my home congregation and the congregation I have now served for 25 years.
11. Pay off the balance on the new hoops facilities at UCONN and put seat backs on EVERY seat in Gampel.
12. Hire U2 and Bono as our congregational worship band.
13. Buy a home in Branford because I still love my hometown.

Yada yada yada

14. Throw the best Boneyard post championship party ever.

Ok, now you're talking.

 

[meyers7]

Says lump sum payout is around $316M. After taxes you are probably looking at around $180-190M. I could probably live on that.

 

[Adesmar123]

Possibly be able to afford a Honey Baked Ham for the holidays....if we split it.

 

[msf22b]

Ice

As a musician, certainly approve of the Church Organist training. Amen

 

[Icebear]

Had fun at coffee this morning giving out tickets to folks for the drawing. Gave one to the wait staff and kitchen crew at the morning coffee spot. Made the day of all the waitresses who immediately informed me that if they win there won't be anyone to get my coffee next week.

Maybe I should have more about that.

 

[pinotbear]

I'd have opted for building a very high, impenetrable fence around the entire state of Tenn.

Extend it several feet down - they're diggers, ya know...