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Title: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: Scott on January 31, 2007, 01:12:53 PM
Well.............I didn't win the 54 Million Mega Million Lottery last night. What would you do if you won 54 Million Dollars?

Here's a list of what I would do:

  • Put Money In The Bank and Make a simple 5% garenteed CD investments
  • Go to the Philippines to help In-Laws with housing, business, and possibly coming to the states if possible. (and anyone one else in my family I feel obligated towards)
  • Tour Philippines (Been there twice, but not far from Manila)
  • Tour Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand while there. (2 Months)
  • Tour Hong Kong, China, Japan, Korea (2 Months)
  • Tour Tibet, Nepal, India (1 Month)
  • Tour Isreal, Egypt (upper/lower), Petra, Jordon (1 Month)
  • Tour Greece, Turkey, and anywhere that might be relatively safe South of there. (1 Month)
  • Tour Italy (1 Month)
  • Tour Western Europe (3 Months)
  • Tour Eastern Europe (1 Month)
  • Tour South America (1 Month)
  • Tour Central America (1 Month)
  • Tour Africa - North/South (1 Month)
  • Tour Canada/Alaska (1 Month)
  • Tour Finish Tour of U.S. 50 States (2 Months)
  • Tour Carribean (2 Weeks)
  • Tour Hawaii, Polynesia, Tahiti, Easter Island (1 Month)
  • Find New Place to live in the U.S. (Possible Hawaii, California, Utah, Colorado, or New Mexico)
  • Purchase Home that will Serve Future Plans
  • The Ultimate Film Library and Entertainment Center In The House
  • Start Small Business (later big) with my Inventions/Creations
  • Finish Writing "The Book"
  • Start the New Religion

Will be travelling the first 2 years before getting to work on my projects.

What would you do if you won a big lottery?


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: raj on January 31, 2007, 01:19:15 PM
Pay off my student loans and mortgage.  Get a nice big flat panel tv.
Mostly, I'd invest and live off the interest.  Also donate to some charities of my choosing.


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: Poogie on January 31, 2007, 01:40:46 PM
Probably have a heart attack or end up in a institution of some sort.  :bouncegiggle:
Help out family and some close friends, fix up the house, donate to help animals (I'm an animal lover), buy alot of mocha frappucino..... :smile: And then wait one year before doing anything else, that way I'll be in my right mind, hopefully...... :smile:


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: Acidburn on January 31, 2007, 04:33:51 PM
I suppose the first thing I would do is purchase a Home for the family. It would be amazing to have something very nice and new and PAID FOR! Then do the usual cars, take care of family and so. Then the next thing would be take whatever is left and put 75% of it up into CD's and such. That way I will always have some money forever. Then take the remainding 15% and buy as many kiwi as I can get my hands on!!!!!  :buggedout: Nah after that I would just head out to the stores and get alot of cool stuff that I have always wanted.


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: Doc Daneeka on January 31, 2007, 06:09:05 PM
Buy more DVDs than Andrew


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: ulthar on January 31, 2007, 06:16:39 PM
I might keep a little bit to invest, but I'd give nearly all of it away.  There are others that "need" more than I do.

A friend of mine on another board uses the following phrase as his sig:  Satisfaction is wanting what you already have.

Money cannot buy happiness, and to paraphrase J. Candy's character in Cool Runnings: "if you are not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it."


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: BeyondTheGrave on January 31, 2007, 06:30:31 PM
To be honest I wouldn't know until it happened. One thing though I definitely get a loft in Manhattan.


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: Ash on January 31, 2007, 06:33:53 PM
Most likely, I would probably use a large chunk of it to build an empire of retail hat & headgear stores across the Midwest.
Kind of like Lids (http://www.lids.com/) or Hat World...but all mine.

But before I did all that, I'd throw the biggest party imaginable!   :thumbup:
You're all invited.


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: Doc Daneeka on January 31, 2007, 07:36:39 PM
Even Menard, Banned Porn Spammer, and Plan9Superfan?


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: Scott on January 31, 2007, 07:53:59 PM
Not that we need to have money to be happy or content, but if I were to have won 54 Million dollars:

1) Travel
2) Take Care Of Extended Family
3) Build Ranch near Santa Fe, New Mexico
4) Yoga/Tai Chi/and Dance room for me and my wife with a view of the mountains.
5) Indoor Theater for Movies
6) Library/Study (books and video)
7) Outdoor Temple
8) Own A Drive-In Theater Near-By/Business/Promotion
9) Big Kitchen/Bathroom/Garage
10) Recreation Vehicles
11) Horse Stable
12) Garden/Spa
13) Weight Room
14) Guest Rooms
15) Secret Passageways
16) Invest at least 3-10 Million in CD's for Investment
17) Media Studio for making TV and Movie productions

Daily Activities:

1) Hiking
2) Working Out
3) Watching Obscure Movies
4) Writing/Reading
5) Lounging/Jaccuzzi
6) Cooking
7) Growing Food
8) Riding Horseback
9) ATV's in Back Country of the Southwest
10) Spreading Truth
11) Making Movies


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: CheezeFlixz on January 31, 2007, 08:37:25 PM
Guess it would depend on if it was $2M or $200M if it's $2M you'll have about $1.1M after taxes and in the real world that aint't much. If it's $200M or more then I'd vanish. POOF ... GONE ... I'd transfer the winnings after taxes to a Swiss account where I'm only a number and you never hear from me again.

In short I'd be worlds riches vagabond.


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: Thorn Is on January 31, 2007, 08:56:20 PM
hire some dude to follow me around with a getoblaster, who's specific job is to play "Staying Alive" at full volume while I strut around town


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: Poogie on January 31, 2007, 09:21:27 PM
Not that we need to have money to be happy or content, but if I were to have won 54 Million dollars:

1) Travel
2) Take Care Of Extended Family
3) Build Ranch built near Santa Fe, New Mexico
4) Yoga/Tai Chi/and Dance room for me and my wife with a view of the mountains.
5) Indoor Theater for Movies
6) Library/Study (books and video)
7) Outdoor Temple
8) Own A Drive-In Theater Near-By/Business/Promotion
9) Big Kitchen/Bathroom/Garage
10) Recreation Vehicles
11) Horse Stable
12) Garden/Spa
13) Weight Room
14) Guest Rooms
15) Secret Passageways
16) Invest at least 3-10 Million in CD's for Investment
17) Media Studio for making TV and Movie productions

Daily Activities:

1) Hiking
2) Working Out
3) Watching Obscure Movies
4) Writing/Reading
5) Lounging/Jaccuzzi
6) Cooking
7) Growing Food
8) Riding Horseback
9) ATV's in Back Country of the Southwest
10) Spreading Truth
11) Making Movies
   "Are you kidding ? The fall will kill you!"    :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: Torgo on January 31, 2007, 11:30:25 PM
Pay off my house, car and credit car debts. I would then invest the remaining amount and live off the interest....that is after I build an actual home theater in my house!


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: Zapranoth on February 01, 2007, 12:53:09 AM
I'd glow orange-red with the doppler effect from the speed with which I'd drop out of productive society.

I think winning the lottery would be bad for me.   :twirl:


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: Yaddo 42 on February 01, 2007, 06:54:31 AM
After paying the taxes? Or is $54 million what I'd have to work with from the get go?

Hopefully my plan would be:

I'd probably ask out a few women I know before it becomes public knowledge. That's right, I'm ripping off ideas from Lost.

Quit my job, on good terms with most of the people because they ain't the ones I have problems with, but tell off a few who I've wanted to tell off anyway.

I'd invest enough to live comfortably for a normal life span, surely I can live decently on 10 million. Pay off the houses and debts of family who have helped me or need the help. Travel to the places I've wanted to go: Ireland, Japan, or Australia first. There'd be some splurging for toys early on. A nice new car for once, maybe two. Go to some concerts, finally see the Chieftains in NYC on St. Patrick's Day for one.

Buy a nice but reasonable house that I can afford the taxes and upkeep for life. Probably have to hire security unless I want to go for the whole gated community route, being a regular person who suddenly has way too much money will bring on new problems and dangers. Travel interests me more than owning homes around the world.

I would rather put most of it to work for charitable work or philanthropy, let it do some good and outlive me. I have no idea how to put it to work this way, would have to research it or ask for advice. I've admired the man I heard about who sold his interest in the Duty Free Shops, kept enough to live well on but not overdo it about $5 million at the time IIRC, left enough to his kids to cushion themselves but they still had to work and be responsible.

No wife, no kids right now, so my options are open there. The money would give me the ego boost and access to ask out Selma Hayek for one. Use it if you got it. Track down a couple of potential "the ones who got away".

Who am I kidding? I'd probably waste it on partying, sleazy women (or greedy goth chicks), pointless extravagances, and trying to be like Guy Grand in The Magic Christian until I burned through all of it and wound up a cautionary tale.


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: Deathfeast on February 01, 2007, 07:14:02 AM
Make sure my family is well off.

Then I would do what I have always wanted to do and make some of the greatest low budget horror movies anyone has ever seen.


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: Acidburn on February 01, 2007, 11:19:42 AM
Buy more DVDs than Andrew

I am not sure 54 million would cover it  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: Andrew on February 01, 2007, 11:34:49 AM
Buy more DVDs than Andrew

I am not sure 54 million would cover it  :bouncegiggle:

Wouldn't cover what?  Rhode Island?  I cannot even imagine the DVD collection I would have if I won the lottery.  Along with opening a hobby center that would focus on the things I enjoy:  huge bad movie rental store, Warhammer and AD&D, paintball...so what if it operates at a loss?  I think just having something like that would be great.


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: JaseSF on February 01, 2007, 12:36:46 PM
First thing would be to get out of debt. Pay off the student loans and such.  I imagine I would have an enormous DVD collection too.  And probably a collection of DVD players/recorders too.


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: Shadow on February 01, 2007, 07:53:07 PM
Wouldn't cover what?  Rhode Island?  I cannot even imagine the DVD collection I would have if I won the lottery.  Along with opening a hobby center that would focus on the things I enjoy:  huge bad movie rental store, Warhammer and AD&D, paintball...so what if it operates at a loss?  I think just having something like that would be great.

Ha! You read my mind! I've told my wife several times that if I won a hug lottery pay-off I'd open "Shadowfyre's Scifi, Fantasy and Horror Emporium" which would be filled with movies, comics, books, RPGs, video games, action figures, models, etc, etc. Everything imaginable for the post modern geek. :teddyr:


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: Scott on February 01, 2007, 09:18:33 PM
I agree that you could start something you like and take a loss as long as it's not a big loss. If it's a hobby and it employs people. That's a charitable thing in my opinion.


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: Dennis on February 01, 2007, 09:40:24 PM
My needs are actually quite small, so I'd try to give most of it away after setting up a trust fund for the kids, this might cause some problems with the wife because we have different ideas of how much money we really need.
I know this because we talk about what to do with our lottery winnings, like that's ever going to happen.  :question:


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: RCMerchant on February 01, 2007, 09:42:31 PM
I would probally ,in this order...
s**t myself.
Change my drawers.
Quit my crappy job.
Pay off my house.
Buy my ma her dreamhouse in Maine.
Take my family on a trip to Easter Island.
And than on to Machu Picchu.
Next,Ankor Wot.
Go home and live off the fat of the bank.


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: LilCerberus on February 04, 2007, 01:12:58 AM
I'd probably hire myself some people, & then I'll have my people look into it.

Or maybe I'll just move to Montana & start a dental floss farm.

I always figured that if I won the lottery, that I'd go me to one of them big ol' fancy college places & buy me some learnings so that I could get me a "real" job.
As Mama used to say, some people live from payday to payday, & other people live "on" payday.


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: Yaddo 42 on February 04, 2007, 07:59:18 AM
Or maybe I'll just move to Montana & start a dental floss farm.

With all that lottery money you wouldn't even have to put it in a little white box that you could sell uptown.

And by yourself, you still wouldn't have no boss, but you might be lonely raising that den-tal floss.

Yippie-Ti-Yo-Ki-Yay!


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: LilCerberus on February 05, 2007, 07:07:12 PM
I got to thinking last night, that while a hedonistic lifestyle would have it's allure, what am I going to do in my spare time? After all, I don't drink anymore, & even at it's very best, lovemaking can only last about eight or nine hours. Then what?

Then I got to thinking about some of the unresolved personal issues in my life, & that's when it hit me; I should become an evil mad scientist!

I'll use those lotto winnings to buy me a creepy castle, then change my name to Baron Von LilCerberus- maybe even buy a few extra letters & become Little Cerberus- and I'll set into motion my diabolical scheme to sit around the house doing nothing all day!

But first, I'd have to buy 365 pizzas, so that I'd have an endless supply of leftover pizza with which to carry out my dastardly plot.


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: CheezeFlixz on February 05, 2007, 07:10:45 PM
I'd do the "Electric Slide" ... I could afford it.


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: BoyScoutKevin on February 08, 2007, 12:45:53 PM
$54 million.

$53,999,999 I spend on wine, women, and song.

The rest, I would spend foolishly.


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: Scott on February 10, 2007, 08:55:38 PM
Check out the WORLD LOTTERY that going to start at 250 Million and then go up. It's in the works even as we speak.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=SYOPXYVBEKUHNQFIQMGCFF4AVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2007/02/10/nlotto10.xml


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: Mr_Vindictive on February 10, 2007, 09:05:45 PM
I'd build a house here on the coast of NC, where I've lived my whole life.  It's beautiful down here and I'd love to have a mansion here.

I'd buy some of those huge plasma TVs that were shown at CES this year.  One for each room in the house.

I'd also build a theater in the home.  Slanted flooring, a real screen, a HD projector, and a regular theater projector.  Velvet ropes on the sides of the aisles.  A popcorn maker in the back of the theater, and a great booming sound system.  I'd have it setup to watch DVDs and regular film.

Also, I'd have new desktop computers in most of the home.  I'd also have a few new laptops and a few UMPCs that I could carry around and do work on.

Also, I'd buy a few dream cars. The first would be a '71 Barracuda Convertable.  Also a Fiero GT, a new GTO, a SRT-4 Neon, and a Mach1 Mustang.

But of course this will never happen.  I'll have to live with what I have now, and only dream about the theater and the cars.  I'll be happy driving my current Neon and my Daewoo.   :smile:


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: Scott on February 10, 2007, 10:02:19 PM
Guess we need to plan Skaboi........ Just in case.


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: dean on February 11, 2007, 08:38:04 AM
Guess we need to plan Skaboi........ Just in case.

Just like we need a special battle plan in case of Zombie, Kaiju, Vampire or other similar attacks.  Just because the odds are low of it happening, doesn't mean we shouldn't be prepared...



Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: Scott on February 13, 2007, 10:31:37 AM
You got the idea Dean and an extra Karma.  :smile: If I hit the lottery tonight I'll make sure everyone gets and extra Karma.


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: Scott on March 08, 2007, 10:34:23 AM
Winner of richest lottery drawing ever in U.S..

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070308/ap_on_re_us/mega_millions_jackpot_52 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070308/ap_on_re_us/mega_millions_jackpot_52)


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: CheezeFlixz on March 08, 2007, 11:16:47 AM
$390,000,000.00/2 = $195,000,000.00 but it's only $80,000,000.00 after taxes ... looks like the Government is the one hitting the lotto on every drawing.


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: BoyScoutKevin on March 08, 2007, 04:56:33 PM
It seems to be a lucky week for truck drivers. A New Jersey truck driver won $34.5 million in a New Jersey lottery recently. It may not be as much as the other driver won, but it is enough for him to take his wife and two teen-age sons to Walt Disney World.


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: clockworkcanary on March 14, 2007, 09:31:14 AM
Oh I'd take care of the family - pay off houses and cars, etc., save/invest a huge chunk for my daughter's college, and I'd probably become a Professional Student.  I graduated 8 years ago and kinda miss going to lecture. 

Oh and I would certainly travel to all of the following places (among others): Antarctica, Sahara, Iceland, and Taiwan.


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: Susan on March 14, 2007, 11:03:57 PM
I would open up a theater which would probably go bust but i'd have fun doing it.  I would have trilogies where you could pay one price and sit through all 3 movies.

I would show B-movies. I would show horror and sci-flicks. I would focus on cool family films if we have to bring the kiddos...no crappy cartoons. I would let people experience their favorite films on the big screen. It would have a lounge. It would have a DVD room where you can buy all kinds of new and obscure films. It would have a bingo hall. It would have a mini-daycare room for the kids and an arcade for the teens. It would serve beer. It would be all lit up with big lights, red carpet, real classic look with the old movie posters. It would be HUGE theater rooms with extended sofas in some areas or u-shaped furniture with little tables in the front. It would have a type of random giveaway for a free movie ticket after each viewing.

and it would be the bomb


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: Jack on March 19, 2007, 10:00:03 AM
I'd buy a really nice house out in San Diego, maybe a couple million or so.  Beautiful view.  Okay, five or six million probably.  I'd have an awesome home theater room, more DVD's than Blockbuster, and a guitar room full of every guitar and guitar related toy I ever wanted.  Nice cars, maybe a top of the line BMW convertible, and a Dodge Viper for when I'm feeling frisky.  I've always wanted a 1970 Mustang Boss 429 too.  Membership at a swanky country club, let the wife and kids have everything they want.  Buy my folks whatever they wanted, probably send them on an around the world cruise, first class all the way.  The rest I'd invest in a wide variety of conservative mutual funds, with a few million in various banks, both here and overseas, just in case the stock market tanked.


Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: Trevor on March 20, 2007, 04:43:54 AM
 :smile:

South Africa only recently got a National Lottery but if I won, I would first of all make my parents very well off for the rest of their lives. Then I would help my colleagues here at work and then a few good friends to pay off debt, etc.

After all that, I would buy a house and car for myself and invest the rest. I would not stop working unless I had to.



Title: Re: What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery?
Post by: RCMerchant on March 20, 2007, 05:13:54 PM
I would open up a theater which would probably go bust but i'd have fun doing it.  I would have trilogies where you could pay one price and sit through all 3 movies.

I would show B-movies. I would show horror and sci-flicks. I would focus on cool family films if we have to bring the kiddos...no crappy cartoons. I would let people experience their favorite films on the big screen. It would have a lounge. It would have a DVD room where you can buy all kinds of new and obscure films. It would have a bingo hall. It would have a mini-daycare room for the kids and an arcade for the teens. It would serve beer. It would be all lit up with big lights, red carpet, real classic look with the old movie posters. It would be HUGE theater rooms with extended sofas in some areas or u-shaped furniture with little tables in the front. It would have a type of random giveaway for a free movie ticket after each viewing.

and it would be the bomb

And I would LIVE there!!!!  :thumbup: