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Old 09-18-2011, 12:05 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default If You Won the Lottery...

If there's no equivalent in your country, just assume you've won (somehow) your country's equivalent of $50 million dollars. If you do have a lottery, or if you're American, do the same.

So, basically - you've somehow won $50 million dollars, American. What would you do with it?

Me? I'd go:

3 million - Housing / vehicle.
5 million - Worthy charities.
5 million - Family.
10 million - For spending to eat, travel (a little bit) and all of that. This should cover the course of my lifetime, mind.
5 million - To produce an independent film.
The rest - Save for ancestors / a rainy day.
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Old 09-18-2011, 11:09 AM   #2 (permalink)
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I'd likely do the following:

- Buy a shedload of music gear, lessons and also build a recording studio for myself.
- Invest some in some shares, stocks or something else. I'd get an investments manager so I don't **** it all up too.
- Buy myself a house somewhere nice. Do it up if needed.
- Give money to charity and social projects.
- Keep some for myself to do things I've wanted to do or experience.
- Give some to my family
- Keep the rest for any kids/family I choose to have myself.
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Old 09-18-2011, 01:20 PM   #3 (permalink)
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- Invest or bank it so as to best earn interest from the money.
- Travel the world, spending a few months in each place, probably rent a nice apartment or something.
- Use portion of money to develop and market a sitcom.
- Learn to play many instruments
- Support remaining family.
- Skim unnecessary funds for charity
- Tell no one.
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Old 09-18-2011, 01:26 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Buy a house with a large kitchen and library for my boyfriend and I
put a bunch in separate accounts for my future children's college funds
buy some more books
stock my new house with delicious food
donate a mil to animal rescues
buy several more cats and a separate little cottage for them to live in
make a potential wedding/honeymoon fund, etc.
Buy my boyfriend a car
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Buy a decent car, buy a keyboard, buy all the things I've downloaded, and probably put the rest away. I'd give about half of it to my parents.
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Old 09-18-2011, 01:59 PM   #6 (permalink)
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I'd finish out my current Econ/Accounting degree, go to a better school and get an Astronomy/Astrophysics degree (what I would be studying now if not for time/money constraints), buy a secluded house in Norway/Sweden somewhere with Ski Resort access, and spend the rest of my life investing/reading/computing.

Would be the bee's knees
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Old 09-18-2011, 04:48 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Give it all to charity.

Or buy a brewery.

I haven't decided.
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Buy brewery, give profit to charity.
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Old 09-18-2011, 04:52 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Buy brewery. Give free beers to the homeless, the blind, and under-privileged children.

And sick animals.
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Old 09-18-2011, 06:27 PM   #10 (permalink)
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I would buy a helicopter and hire a pilot to fly me over Brooklyn and dump out 1 million dollars and record the mayhem of human instincts

I would take 5 million and split it up between four other friends and play a real life version of Monopoly. See who buys up the most property and gets the highest rent revenue in a certain time frame.

I would most definitely take a few trips to Germany, Brazil, Japan with some of the money and also invest in stocks.

I would pay to have DisneyWorld shut down for the 3 days while riding around the place with my friends on our own Segways going to all the rides.

Fuck my family they don't deserve shit.
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