I'm going to Disneyland!

[Cruise Director]

So my friends and I often talk about the impossible. "What would you do if you won the lottery?" It's a fun question when you think about it.

Me: I'd buy the biggest motor coach available. A few select friends and I would travel the entire country seeing everything possible. Get up in the morning and "hmm..... there's an alligator farm 50 miles from here. Let's go see it."

Behind the motor coach would be the semi carrying any possible toys / supplies we might need along the way. We'd lock the whole caravan up and fly home occasionally and then fly back and pick up where we left off.

What would YOU do with the money?

[Mudflap]

Ah....one of my favorite fantasies. Instant wealth.

Here's what I know I'd do to start off with: Take care of certain obligations in my personal life Pay off all my debts Remodel my house Landscape my yard Build an indoor swimming pool with a guest house in the back yard Pay off my family member's debts Give both my parents enough so they can each retire Buy a few toys Learn to fly an airplane Buy an airplane Fly over all of your houses and drop Real Dolls onto your property Have all my back hair removed Get lots of therapy Travel all over the world Send Hillary a million dollar campaign donation and have the check cancelled

[Asmodeus]

Muddy, that last one was priceless. :D

As for me...

1. pay off what little debts I have left- student loans.
2. buy an adobe house either in New Mexico, Arizona, or South West Texas or a villa in Mexico.
3. buy a Jeep and have it customized to the hilt.
4. buy a Harley and have it customized to my specifications
5. and spend the rest of my life cruising and being as lazy as I want to be.

[PB]

ahhh.... money.

*I'd pay off everything that I owe my parents.
*pay off all my debts..... medical bills would probably break me at this point.
* I'd go to a car dealership in rags... looking homely, and whoever was nicest to me on the lot, I'd buy the most expensive car that I liked from that person and scream fuck off to the rest of them.
*I'd buy a new ass and stomach.
*have a boob reduction. (hey it's my money after all)
*i'd set up a bank account for my son for when he turns 21 he will get a million dollars of his own.
*I'd travel to all the places I've always wanted to see.
*I'd send my mother on a vacation to wherever she wanted to go.
*i'd put my father in alcohol rehab.
*i'd go to nursing school.
*i'd put myself in a hospital, and have them figure out what's wrong with me./
*i'd try and figure out a way to fix some of the things i've messed up.
I'd go to mexico and buy a shit load of valium.
*start up and fund a research group on panic discorders and other mental illnesses of this nature.

and for work..... I'd teach dance and gymnastics to kids that their parents were too poor to pay for it.

I'm sure there are a ton of other things.... but therse are just the ones off the top of my head.

oh and Muddy.. i told you I have wax at my house, and i'd be more than happy to remove that back hair for you.

V.

[jules]

I couldn't win.

But, hypothetically...


Pay off Dad's debts. Move my whole family south (since that's where we all want to be). Help my brother out with college (and set aside college money for myself). Take care of mom so she can go back to school without having to work at the same time. Buy dad a shiny fast new harley.

Then I'd probably buy a bunch of really stupid shit and feel bad afterwards.

[MAC]

I'd set the house on fire and drive away
when I got to southern mexico (almost to belieze)
I'd take in the first stray dog that came by my little house by the ocean.
I'd start every day with a cup of coffee and a joint
Then I'd smoke cigarettes and read till lunch time
I'd go out for lunch everyday and paint or draw until the sunset
I'd unwind with a glass of wine and watch espn sports till bed

ummm

yeah, thats what I'd do

[estero]

lol

Originally posted by Mudflap
Fly over all of your houses and drop Real Dolls onto your property [/list]

[ms. bing]

originally posted my mac
I'd set the house on fire and drive away
when I got to southern mexico (almost to belieze)
I'd take in the first stray dog that came by my little house by the ocean.
I'd start every day with a cup of coffee and a joint
Then I'd smoke cigarettes and read till lunch time
I'd go out for lunch everyday and paint or draw until the sunset
I'd unwind with a glass of wine and watch espn sports till bed


ummm.... hey its your fantasy. just proves you never really know whats in a persons mind.
as for me, i'd buy the home i wanted and a nice car, then take my damn sweet time getting my phd while paying people to publish my literary works, whether they were any good or not.
then i would take said phd and publication credits and buy myself a position teaching insufferable classes on english literature at
st. edwards university. i would regularly tell my frightened students "i am a professor, not a teacher. im not here to teach you, im here to profess. if you dont know how to write a paper to my specifications, you better buy a book and figure it out" thus gaining the mythical status of medusa among freshmen. i would regularly cancel classes with no notice due to my daughter's various activities, tournaments, school parties or whatever the fuck i wanted.
i would teach a sunrise yoga class in my home.
i would be heavily invested, but continue writing so i could write off my income as research expenses on my taxes.
i would travel regularly, taking eva to see as many cultures as possible so she doesnt grow up thinking hers is the only valid one in the world.
i think that about covers it.
oh yhea, and i would spend at least a mil throwing her the most kick-ass quincienera ever!
one more thing, bling bling. modest but present.

[SimpleSimon]

Win the lottery?

That'd be nice.

I'd build a new home in a place far from here, where the land has some character (read mountains) and the climate is better. I'm kinda fond of Costa Rica, in the area east of San Isidro on the plateau.

Other than that, i'd try to make my home as self-sufficient as possible, installing microhydro for power, satellite communications, and sustainable permaculture farming. Iguana make a hell of a good protein source, and taste good too.

If there were sufficient funds, I'd set up investments endowing a foundation aimed at creating a tropical agriculture research station, with an emphasis on genetic engineering to improve yields and disease resistance.

Obviously, I'd pay off my debts here. Give Jed the house, he can do what he wants with it. No college fund - if he wants to go he'll make it happen, if Margaret wants to go, she'll make it happen. The rest of the family can go hang, as far as money is concerned. I do not think one does children any service by coddling them.

Travel? Yeah, I'd travel, and gladly invite family members/friends along at my expense, as long as they want to go where I want to go. The best thing about financial independence is the independence; one doesn't answer to others for his/her agenda or goals.

[Cruise Director]

Ah, some of you are doing quite nicely. The paying off bills thing is pretty much a given. I can tell who's actually put some thought in to this before.

Dreamers we shall forever be.

[Barbie]

Originally posted by MAC
I'd set the house on fire and drive away
when I got to southern mexico (almost to belieze)
I'd take in the first stray dog that came by my little house by the ocean.
I'd start every day with a cup of coffee and a joint
Then I'd smoke cigarettes and read till lunch time
I'd go out for lunch everyday and paint or draw until the sunset
I'd unwind with a glass of wine and watch espn sports till bed

ummm

yeah, thats what I'd do

I'm going with MAC.

[Barbie]

Rule number 1 to winning the Lotto: you have to buy a ticket.

If I won a lotto.

***Pay up any outstanding debts (mortgage, truck)
***Invest for Kristine's future
***Pay out her dad (or hire a hit man, whatever strikes me'fancy that day
***Give 1/2 the winnings to the Canadian Cancer Society
***Buy a burial plot

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[MrsKol]

A burial plot?

[Billyman]

Everyone screams "pay of debts"...well, that's a given.

To keep from rambling I'll just say;

I would be living it up while keeping it simple. I live in a good size house but I'd like one bigger and would build to suit. Toy's are a must, bar ownership would be necessary, I would be employer as opposed to employee. My Porsche's license plate would read "N V ME".

[Escape Artist]

I'd just pay off family debts, assist a few friends, and live as I usually do.

[Cruise Director]

We've talked about owning a bar, too. It would be open on a limited number of days and would be an "invite only" sort of place. Seating capacity around 200 with local bands like Van Halen, Metallica, etc. playing one or two night stands. Cover charge and everything on the menu would be 5 bucks. ALL proceeds going to a charity for the day.

Wednesday performances would be purely accoustical.

[ms. bing]

i guess im the only neo-yuppie in here.
oh well.
someone has to drive the suv, otherwise folks would have nothing to bitch about...

[MrsKol]

I would, after paying the debts of course, buy a SUV, go back to school and launch my own business.

[Hygiliak]

Take the money and run like hell

I like asia in the spring

[simiantics]

I'd become the world's richest Dharma Bum.

Maybe not quite, but I'd finish the program I'm in, grab my camera and start walking in no particular direction. My goal in life is to leach off of society and have no tangible goal or destination. If I have somewhere to go then I might end up there... and then what?

[Torque]

Giant druglord style mansion in mexico. No drugs though, just the mansion. And ninjas exercising on the grounds. I'll shoot a ninja once in a while to make sure they stay fearful and obedient.

I already spoke about this with Mac and Cruise. I'll meet them once in a while for beers, and let them shoot a ninja on their birthdays.

Barring all that, I'd have a jet dragster. And a fighter jet. And maybe a cereal dispensing machine. And a huge home for homeless cats.

[MAC]

barbie, I hope you realise that my point was that I would NEVER do those things.
they are the OPPOSITE of everything I dedicate myself to. (not that there's anything wrong with them, they just ain't ME)

most of our lives are about 90% filled with the problems, stresses and trivialitys of our status anyway. where we live, what we own, what we want.
if all that went away do you expect me to believe that your "self" would swell to fill that gap left when your money problems went away?
it would not
you would change everythign you coudl to try to find the balance that keeps you comforatably segregated from the reality of your thoughts and feelings
I would have to completely change everything I do right now in order to eliminate all the pressures i feel and all the stresses I utilize

I said it once before, and I'll say it again

alcoholics and workoholics, thats what we become

how could you live with yourself if you owned all your time?
how could you handle your failures and limits?
how could you look in the mirror and know there is nothing stopping you but you?

that kind of peace is not bought and cannot be forced upon you by success

meditate on that

[Mudflap]

Ya know Mac, sometimes you're philisophical to the point where I want to punch you in the nose.

Don't worry, I won't do it.

*drives to Tenn. to punch Kol in the nose*

;)

[Koliedrus]

Tsk. You realize, of course, that you'll go straight to Hell for punching a member of the clergy. I suppose I'll have to forgive you in advance.

How about if I just give you the money so you can impliment your ideas?

Be sure to splurge on the parachute and aim for the front yard.