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Re: Upon winning the lottery, What would you do?

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Originally Posted by dlavery (Post 650086)

OK, the sad part is that we have actually sat around at work and debated this (hey, we are working on government salarites, what do you expect? :) ).

First, an observation. Have you ever noticed that when any of the major lotteries start to get really large, the local TV stations all start to interview the people standing in line to buy tickets, hoping that they will win? They all seem to find the same guy to ask the question of: unshaven for 12 days, no teeth, big hunk o' chaw in his lip, 14 strands of hair in a comb-over, and a nasty old Cowboys jacket that hasn't been washed since 1973. And then they all ask the same question: "Sir, what would you do if you won the $84 million in this weeks Powerball lottery?"

"We-e-e-all, first off, I guess I would git me a new truck..."

<sigh> some people just don't know how to think big.

Me? If I won a few dozen million dollars, I would start off by buying a small Caribbean country. Preferably one that entirely occupies its own island. With whatever was left, I would purchase an air force for Dave-land and give them just one command: keep all the lawyers away. Eh, maybe two commands: keep all the lawyers away, and let me take the airplane out for a spin whenever I want. OK, so make that three rules: keep all the lawyers away, let me take the airplane out for a spin whenever I want, and make sure to fly in enough Krispy Kremes whenever the supply in Dave-land starts to get low.

Yeah, that is how I would spend my lottery winnings.

-dave

why not just buy a krispy kreme factory? I havent had krispy kremes in months.... sigh...

Re: Upon winning the lottery, What would you do?

if i won the lottery i would probably invest 3/4 of it in bonds and use the other 1/4 for making an ultimate gaming pc. and for buying alot of Mozilla stock and some stock in various Linux company's.

Re: Upon winning the lottery, What would you do?

Step one: Trip to bank to get a safe deposit box.
Step two: Contact a financial planner.
Step three: ???
Step four: Buy sweet stuff.
Step five: Profit!!!

Wetzel

Re: Upon winning the lottery, What would you do?

it would be amazing to take your team to every single regional...just simply amazing.

plus a sweet car, maybe a private jet, i guess i havta go to college, prob. start a really cool band, build a starbucks on my jet. buy a pair of bapes. wow, i could come up with so much more.

wow and charity, thats actually really important.

oh oh oh and also fill a giant pool with chicken noodle soup and swim and eat it.

buy 20 pounds of cheese and hand it out to people on the street and tell them i just won the lottery and bought this cheese for no reason, want some?

^^^please not im joking about the cheese, and almost everything else lol

Re: Upon winning the lottery, What would you do?

I'd bribe Dave Lavery to tell me the game six weeks early :D (yes it would be well worth it)

Re: Upon winning the lottery, What would you do?

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Originally Posted by Hachiban VIII (Post 652099)

I'd bribe Dave Lavery to tell me the game six weeks early :D (yes it would be well worth it)

You wouldn't have enough... :)

Re: Upon winning the lottery, What would you do?

Oh, KathieK, your ideas are so sweet, you really don't deserve this, but--

I guess I'm really being a party pooper tonight!

Real Life Happens--

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Originally Posted by KathieK (Post 649845)

The first thing I would do is give my two-week notice. Then take two weeks' vacation.
We'd have a big party for all our friends and then invite them all on vacation with us.

Three days into your vacation with your friends, while doing nothing spectacular, you break both your legs and must be medi-vac'd to the hospital, where after emergency surgery and two casts, you are sent home in a wheelchair. One of your dearest friends cuts her vacation short to go home with you and help take care of you while you recuperate.

Meanwhile, the rest of your friends, whom you firmly ordered to continue enjoying their vacation in your honor, get severe food poisoning from a world-class restaurant. One-fourth of them continue the vacation after a couple days alternating between bedroom and bathroom. The rest of them wind up in the hospital the day after you get sent home from it, so you can't even commiserate with them. Three of your hospitalized friends are so ill they become comatose for two months, and require two years before they can walk again.

One of your "friends" later sues you, because you invited him on the vacation, so his illness is obviously YOUR fault. Although he eventually loses, your lawyer fees add up.

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We'd put some aside in trust funds for the kids.
Then we'd set up a Connecticut Robotics Education Center (I already have the building picked out) with dorms, classrooms, a facility to hold tournaments, machine shops, etc.

Although you still have 30 million USD left from your winnings after paying everyone's hospital and nursing home bills, the neighbors to your proposed CREC building object to your plans. Some are convinced that it should really become an indoor mini golf center. Most think that having a youth center nearby will attract too many teens, along with drugs, vandalism, and other supposed "teen" problems. A few even accuse you of being racist for proposing such an idea. (Reminder: this is real life, which doesn't necessarily make sense.) The zoning and planning commission meetings drag on endlessly...

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Then I'd figure out what other charities I wanted to support.
Then, if anything was leftover I'd buy a used car to replace my Jeep. Well, OK, maybe a new Jeep. Or maybe a lamborghini... hmmm... :)

But you actually decide you'll subscribe to a charter jet service so you can visit...

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Oh, and a log house in the mountains.

in southern California, where the annual fire season takes place where your log house was...

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And a beach house at the beach.

...in Malibu, where a brush fire roaring down a nearby canyon collides with the heavy ocean swell from a tropical storm 1,000 miles away to the south. Your remaining friends take bets on which will destroy your beach house first...

Re: Upon winning the lottery, What would you do?

I would pay off al debit for myself, my family, and our farm. then become our teams sponser forever. it would be set up so they still had to raise money, but will alwasy be able to go to any regionals and championships, including transportation and rooms. i would also build a large building to house them with a full field and machine shop complete with state of the art cumputerized waterjets, lathes, and bridgeports. there would also be a full scholarship for any senior on the team who is enrolled in our schools agricultureal classes and plan to go on in the field of agriculture.
Next i would set up investments in Cowpots, my dads buisness, and various other buisnesses, give to charities. I would still finish school and continue on to become a teacher and teach. i would buy our schools FFA program equipment and animals. I would hae a fleet of trucks, cars, and toys. All of the trucks would be diesel trucks running off of biodiesel which will be produced at my house. Next comes trust funds for not only my kids and grand children, but myy great grand children. then i would start a bull breeding operation to raise bulls for use in bull riding competitions, such as P.B.R. thats all for now.:)

Re: Upon winning the lottery, What would you do?

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Originally Posted by KarenH (Post 652300)

Oh, KathieK, your ideas are so sweet, you really don't deserve this, but--

Well. I guess I know who isn't getting invited to go on vacation with me! :p

Re: Upon winning the lottery, What would you do?

1. Pay Taxes
2. Pay off Student Loans
3. Buy a house along the Cape
4. Pay off my mother's house
5. Pay off my Future In-Laws' house
6. Savings
7. Buy myself a VW Bug

I would still keep working as you never know. Plus, I personally can't handle being bored. I would make sure it was a job I truly enjoyed.