If You Won The Lottery--What Then ?

[DannyMc]

If you won $ 100 million dollars what "use" would you put it to ?

 

[Avenger314]

I'd keep it.

Okay, seriously.

$5 million to my parents so that they could retire.

$3 million for lifestyle changes: New house in a nice area, new car, etc.

$100,000 initially to be spent as guilt-free pleasures: Vacation, new video game systems, taking my friends out to dinner, etc. Actually, more like $2,000; I'm not a spendthrift. But the 100k is there.

EVerything else, let's call it $90 million, gets invested in a very conservative market, say government bonds or CD's. Some of it, MAYbe, if I'm feeling adventurous, gets invested in an index fund. The objective is to give me an income on the interest, so I don't have to touch the principle.

Each year, I'd give myself $200,000 as income to use for the year.
I'd also give myself $50,000 for various charity works--a couple of scholarships.

The rest gets saved.

I could then afford to write full-time, which is my dream. Maybe I could finally get this children's book series finished.

 

[DannyMc]

Nice ideas Avenger.....

 

[maniactickler]

Retire and go on a world wide tickle tour!

 

[aun_existe_amor]

I'd share some between my family, my fiance's family and my close friends. I'd make sure my daughter had a good portion of it in her bank account for when she's older. I'd buy myself a nice house and car.

 

[DannyMc]

Nice Catherine .

 

[DannyMc]

Maniac, that tour would surely be one for the books !

 

[slacker2114]

Collect my money, share some with close family and my true friends (I know who they are), offer the guys I like at work money to walk off the job on the same night, then quit myself, being sure to tell my boss EXACTLY what I thought of him, set myself up in a nice place that's out of the way, dedicate a room in that house to computers, and have the most bitchin' gaming computer EVER built and running. Then live off the interest for the reast of my life.

 

[DannyMc]

Slacker 2114 , let the challenge begin !!!!

 

[TicklishGrl4Lfe]

I would probably put a lot of it away for my future children. I would take a few trips to places like Ireland and Germany. I would put some in a bank account for my wedding, my house, and a nice car. I would also use some for my schooling. I think I would also donate some to my High School. I would donate to a major charity.

 

[DannyMc]

TG4L , Education and charity can use the help ,

 

[TicklishGrl4Lfe]

TG4L , Education and charity can use the help ,

Yes they can, exactly why I would donate to them.

 

[Saeria]

Sombreros! I'd blow all of my money on sombreros.. and a pony that wears a diaper so it can watch cartoons with me, hire someone to change pony diapers and a plastic skeleton that i can dress up as madonna .. then rig it up to pop out and sing "Like a Virgin" every time the Hoover salespeople decided to pay a visit. Yeah.. something tells me THIS is the reason the starving artist bit works so well for me.

 

[milagros317]

Retire. See Mistress Zara and Mistress Kassandra more often and for longer sessions. New residence. 10% to charities of my choice. Most invested fairly conservatively.

 

[DannyMc]

Saeria, sure alot of starving artist that can use a helping hand . Vincent van Gogh was one .

 

[DannyMc]

Mil, quite an agenda lined up .

 

[kered]

I would set up my parents with whatever they wanted or needed, Give my two brothers a bunch, set up my nieces for college, provide my daughter with one hell of a trust fund, build my dream house complete with indoor pool, invest in well established stocks and bonds.......then get on a two week drunk! And of course invite some close TMF friends to come visit four or five times a year on my dime.

 

[lk70]

I would set up my parents with whatever they wanted or needed, Give my two brothers a bunch, set up my nieces for college, provide my daughter with one hell of a trust fund, build my dream house complete with indoor pool, invest in well established stocks and bonds.......then get on a two week drunk! And of course invite some close TMF friends to come visit four or five times a year on my dime.

DUDE! What about the giant RV and 10 month road trip to follow the Nextel Cup Circuit? And the refrigerated truck to follow behind with the tea?

 

[kered]

DUDE! What about the giant RV and 10 month road trip to follow the Nextel Cup Circuit? And the refrigerated truck to follow behind with the tea?

Do you think we could trust Pokey with driving the "tea wagon"? Or are you hinting at the job?

 

[lk70]

Do you think we could trust Pokey with driving the "tea wagon"? Or are you hinting at the job?

No way. You'd have to hire someone. Pokey and I would both be in the RV with you, playing quarters.

 

[kered]

No way. You'd have to hire someone. Pokey and I would both be in the RV with you, playing quarters.

Running off for ten months with you, Pokey and Izzy to follow the races would be OK with me but you would have to overcome the little issue of Pokey's Boss, Izzy's David, and of course your boyfriend. They might not like the idea.

 

[steph]

I'd see the world and bring my mom back to Sicily. I'd pay off her house, buy myself a new one near the beach, repaint my convertible and give a buttload to charity!
XOXO

 

[TicklishLurker]

First I'd pay off my credit card bills in full. Then I'd go visit Mastertank1 for awhile, then back home for a bit where I'll call up the Barry Manilow International Fan Club and arrange to buy a Platinum package (cost a $1,000 donation to Manilow's charity Health & Hope which gives money to hospitals, women's shelters, etc) so I can meet Barry Manilow. Then finally I'll get a place somewhere like New York and see about getting my singing career on the road I want it on.

 

[luvgirlsfeet]

buy a house in Hawaii, with a runway for a sanpiper plane, give money to Holly Marie Combs and Alyssa Milano to tickle each other then me and then I tickle them both

 

[lk70]

and of course your boyfriend. They might not like the idea.

Oh no no no! Actually you've just found our tea wagon driver!