So, you got home and found that you won the state lottery. Now what?

[Task Force]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Really TF? I'd have thought you'd have gone for making your own King Tiger? That'll take care of a few million, and then the repair bills will take up the rest.


We've got it all planned out, new house and that, I'd probably keep it stum but I think folks on here would twig when I started talking about my new supercomputer...

OAH YES! That, i would get me a king tiger! And use it as my personal vehicle! FEAR ME! I CAN HIT 22KPH!!! MUWAHAHAHA! lol.

Oah, and a new PC...

[Growler]

Pay off the house so the kids have a place where they can pay rent and utilities, and not get thrown out of while they learn how to exist and survive in today's world. Pay off my sister's house so she can divorce the idiot she married (total, maybe 300K). Make a healthy donation to the places and people whose work I value, via endowments: 100K to each submarine museum in the country, with 500K in a separate endowment as "emergency funds" in the event a boat needs a critical quick fix (There goes about 4M). A Subsim Meet, Greet, and Work week on whichever boat we determine needs the most assistance, hosted by whichever museum it represents, and paid for by me (~100K).

College funds for the kids (~.5M) That Porsche 911 Turbo I've wanted (~150K). Lifetime membership in HNSA (OK, that one's feasible w/o a lottery strike).

A small place for me and the lady in the mountains somewhere above 6K' with a view (~200-500K).

And that's about it. Rest (~2M, +/-) goes into banks, metals. Live on interest. Wife's a writer, and I'm always willing to travel to different places to work, so there's flexibility in our lives to do that.

When I did leave my current job, my resignation notice would be in the memo field of a donation check.

[MH]

Buy my doughter a nice house.
Make a deposit for her high education-not too much so she would have to work a bit.
Buy myself a Hammer or Land Rover and drive around the world.
With money left just seat on my ass drink beer,screw around and play with toys.

[Oberon]

Some lucky bastarge(s) in the UK has just claimed £161m...


No, it's not me...

[Task Force]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Some lucky bastarge(s) in the UK has just claimed £161m...


No, it's not me...

Hmm... That reminds me! i have some long lost relatives in the UK!!!!

[Stealhead]

I wouldn't do anything anything because I do not gamble(this would include lotteries) or take part in sweepstakes.Personally I do not think that winning or earning or gaining in any sort of way a large sum of money is going to magically make my life picture perfect.I think that many people feel this way though.

Sure it would be nice I suppose to be able to buy many things I suppose.I just base my opinion on what I have seen and heard from family members that live in Ft.Lauderdale and are in the lower ring of "wealthy". They have told me stories about neighbors one whose daughter never brought the grand children down to visit him when he asked why she never visited she said it was because there was no place for the kids to play(on a multi million house on the inter coastal?right) so this man buys the entire 2 million lot next to his has the house torn down and a small play ground placed on it.

The only thing money gives you truly is more problems rather than less.If you have millions of dollars there is so much to be done to protect that money and then if you win the lottery everyone is going to know because it is public knowledge so people will be coming out of the wood work asking for handouts.

I am not saying people that have wealth are bad or unhappy by any means they are humans just like everyone else and even with all the money they still have to deal with the same things any other person has to face in life.

I will stick with my life the way it is thank you I am happy enough I have everything I need and things that I have just for enjoyment I have a good wife and family and I got all those things without a large amount of money(sometimes I had very little).

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

I wouldn't do anything anything because I do not gamble(this would include lotteries) or take part in sweepstakes.Personally I do not think that winning or earning or gaining in any sort of way a large sum of money is going to magically make my life picture perfect.I think that many people feel this way though.

Sure it would be nice I suppose to be able to buy many things I suppose.I just base my opinion on what I have seen and heard from family members that live in Ft.Lauderdale and are in the lower ring of "wealthy". They have told me stories about neighbors one whose daughter never brought the grand children down to visit him when he asked why she never visited she said it was because there was no place for the kids to play(on a multi million house on the inter coastal?right) so this man buys the entire 2 million lot next to his has the house torn down and a small play ground placed on it.

The only thing money gives you truly is more problems rather than less.If you have millions of dollars there is so much to be done to protect that money and then if you win the lottery everyone is going to know because it is public knowledge so people will be coming out of the wood work asking for handouts.

I am not saying people that have wealth are bad or unhappy by any means they are humans just like everyone else and even with all the money they still have to deal with the same things any other person has to face in life.

I will stick with my life the way it is thank you I am happy enough I have everything I need and things that I have just for enjoyment I have a good wife and family and I got all those things without a large amount of money(sometimes I had very little).

I have a good wife and family and a decent home, but I could deal with the problem or stress of having a few extra million bucks.