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Oh my god you crack me up!
Oh my god you crack me up!
What would you do?
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You know my friend and I had a conversation about this the other day. She always plays the lottery, me not so much, but I decided a few weeks back to play megamillions. So I asked her if she won, what would be different in her life,..and she and I concluded not a whole heck of a lot. I frankly think my life would not change much,..my husband could retire and we could do projects until we turned blue. I would buy all my children homes and cars and startup money for their own businesses. I would pay off my house and bank the rest and live off the interest. I think the one treat I would have is to purchase a vacation home outside of the country,...maybe france or italy or costa rica.
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1. Have Norm Abrams renovate my house.
2. Hand the rest to a Swiss financial manager.
3. Tell no one. I'd lie and say a distant relative had died and left me just enough to renovate the house, or say I'd gotten a one-time bonus at work for some project, but only enough to fix up the house.
I do actually have a family member who did not win the lotto, but her eldest daughter was killed in a horrible accident, and the company that killed her was found to be at fault. Her eldest daughter was young, pretty, smart, such that the judge called both lawyers into his chambers and told the company lawyer that they should just write a check now because they would lose big-time, no question. The settlement was in the multimillions.
She bought a big house for herself, her teenage kids, and her in-laws. Within 10 years, both kids had grown up to be losers (one has been arrested for drunk-driving his car into a tree so often he can't get a license anymore, the other dropped out of school and can't hold a job for more than 6 months), her in-laws had wrecked their suite and part of the house so badly it cost $50,000 to repair, and her hubby divorced her. She had to sell the house at a significant loss.
All the money paid for was a few beach vacations, her drunk son's lawyer and wrecked cars, some outfits for her grandkids (which were literally worn once and thrown in the garbage, as the daughter reasoned that "Mom's rich, she'll buy more"), and her divorce.
In contrast, I have an aunt whose hubby ran a startup software company, which he sold in the 1990s. They have a few million, which they earned by their own sweat. They only let slip recently that they were that wealthy when my mother asked them about their plans for retirement. They did not change their lifestyle, kept their house and only made a couple of renovations, and kept working. They are still married, still happy, and have a pretty good life with lots of hobbies.
2. Hand the rest to a Swiss financial manager.
3. Tell no one. I'd lie and say a distant relative had died and left me just enough to renovate the house, or say I'd gotten a one-time bonus at work for some project, but only enough to fix up the house.
I do actually have a family member who did not win the lotto, but her eldest daughter was killed in a horrible accident, and the company that killed her was found to be at fault. Her eldest daughter was young, pretty, smart, such that the judge called both lawyers into his chambers and told the company lawyer that they should just write a check now because they would lose big-time, no question. The settlement was in the multimillions.
She bought a big house for herself, her teenage kids, and her in-laws. Within 10 years, both kids had grown up to be losers (one has been arrested for drunk-driving his car into a tree so often he can't get a license anymore, the other dropped out of school and can't hold a job for more than 6 months), her in-laws had wrecked their suite and part of the house so badly it cost $50,000 to repair, and her hubby divorced her. She had to sell the house at a significant loss.
All the money paid for was a few beach vacations, her drunk son's lawyer and wrecked cars, some outfits for her grandkids (which were literally worn once and thrown in the garbage, as the daughter reasoned that "Mom's rich, she'll buy more"), and her divorce.
In contrast, I have an aunt whose hubby ran a startup software company, which he sold in the 1990s. They have a few million, which they earned by their own sweat. They only let slip recently that they were that wealthy when my mother asked them about their plans for retirement. They did not change their lifestyle, kept their house and only made a couple of renovations, and kept working. They are still married, still happy, and have a pretty good life with lots of hobbies.
I don't play very often...but if I did win..................... I would organise one hell of a BYC members party!! and fly me, Highlander and Jena over to meet y'all................now who has got enough land over there to hold a 23,000 member party? ............ ohhh and we could have Allchookup and his band play ....................no excuses you all have to "attend" .................. boy what a shin dig that would be!
Get out debt, buy land to live on and build a house on it, invest money into real estate and keep it quite from everyone, even the kids.
get out of debt, and buy something like this ....http://www.landandfarm.com/properties/ranch_for_sale.asp
hummm......
Pay off all my bills and all my families bills
Buy my husbands gpa's ranch back
buy a house on the beach
buy atleast 10 more vw buses..lol
start a group home for pregant teenagers
adopt at least 4 kids
RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS~
and give away alot of it! You can only die with your honor not your money, cars or property!
Oh did i say buy more vw buses....
Pay off all my bills and all my families bills
Buy my husbands gpa's ranch back
buy a house on the beach
buy atleast 10 more vw buses..lol
start a group home for pregant teenagers
adopt at least 4 kids
RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS~
and give away alot of it! You can only die with your honor not your money, cars or property!
Oh did i say buy more vw buses....
I cant type here what I would do with lottery winnings.
suffice it to say I would fight bad intentions in the Law Making system.
suffice it to say I would fight bad intentions in the Law Making system.
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Sadly, I think it would take more than just money to do that.
Sadly, I think it would take more than just money to do that.
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Sadly, I think it would take more than just money to do that.
But it would be a valient effort.
Sadly, I think it would take more than just money to do that.
But it would be a valient effort.
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