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    Default I won the LOTTERY!!!

    OK..no I didnt. But I started daydreaming about what I"d do if I did. I think the lottery is up around 80 million...

    I would pay off all my debt including my house and my cars.
    I would pay off my families debt, including paying off my parents and C's Uncles house and buy my brother a house of his own
    I would take my 5 closest friends and pay off or buy them a house.

    Ok...now nobody I love is homeless!

    Now cars...a Mercedes for my mom, a jag for my dad and a viper for my brother
    Take a cpl of friends car shopping for the car they want

    Take all my closest friends on a trip to Vegas or maybe the Caribbean...cover all expenses and pay for whatever time they take off so they dont have to use up their vacation time from work

    Buy a new house for me out in Cali..making sure it has a guesthouse so anyone who wants to visit or needs a place to stay can live with me for free.

    Break ground on a 1000 acre wildlife santuary and domestic animal rescue. Staff it and fill it!!

    Spend the rest of my life working with animals and traveling with friends!!

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    If I won the lottery, I'd give it to YOU and hope I was one of your 5 closest friends.

    I'm kinda simple.

    Oh and I'd buy a signed movie to.

    You OWE me one by the way. I'll pay for it. But I want it signed.
    People are not ruled by their memories.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mastridonicus View Post
    If I won the lottery, I'd give it to YOU and hope I was one of your 5 closest friends.

    I'm kinda simple.

    Oh and I'd buy a signed movie to.

    You OWE me one by the way. I'll pay for it. But I want it signed.
    HA..I want one too...I dont even have a copy of any of my movies

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    LOL! You had me going!!!

    Ok, for me
    1. Pay off my house
    2. Pay off everyone in my family's homes/ buy them houses. Especially my brother, and a place with a big yard for my cousin who has 3 kids and a deadbeat husband, works her butt off and they all live with grandma.
    3. Get a 645 BMW. Black and Tan.
    4. Start buying all organic food and get a water filtering system for my house.
    5. Replace the flooring in kitchen and bathrooms, and get a couple more kitty condos.
    6. Vacation in Hawaii.
    7. Vacation home somewhere on a beach, maybe in Mexico.
    8. With jetskis
    9. Start a campaign to improve the quality of life for household pets (and homeless pets) featuring propoganda for Cesar Milan the Dog Whisperer.
    10. Large donations to Nevada SPCA (society for prevention of cruelty to animals) and *Battered Women's Shelters.*

    Hhhmmm. Still fantasizing. If I think of more I will add later...

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    Revised: I would definitely get myself an Island Oasis Smoothie maker.

    God those things make HEAVEN out of a little ice and some flavoring.
    People are not ruled by their memories.

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    Pay off my debt, my car, my house. Buy a boat. Invest the rest, and live off the interest.
    I believe you Dottie and you have my support

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    OH YEA, I would also invest in Utah's cellular system to keep people from txting me about seeing the Transformers Movie and then signing off.
    That would be nice.
    People are not ruled by their memories.

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    I'd make it rain on these hoes, just once.

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    Hmm. I have no family or friends to worry about. So fuck em.

    I would buy myself my dream house. Which would be on an animal sanctuary.
    Buy a boat.
    Buy my boyfriend his dream car and a motorcycle. Buy myself my dream car.
    Buy my boyfriend the massive in my opinion way to expensive computer. ( the one he has is over 4grand, and he still don't think it's good enough. damn gamers)
    Go shopping at MAC for everythign I have ever wanted.
    Then hit the Forum Shops here and reformat my wardrobe.
    Then I'd go traveling the world as my house was being built.
    I would pay off my boyfriends parents house and debts, and make sure they had enough money to live comfortably forever. They have helped me more than anyoen in my own family, and have treated me as family, therefore, they are the only people I concider family.

    Then I would put money in a trust for my mother on the stipulation she could get a portion of it every year she remained sober and held down a job. But she'd be pissed at me and call me selfish for that, and not just sharing it with her.

    I'd do the same for my bother. Money in a trust he coudl get a portion of each year he was in college and held down a job.

    Oh. My dad. he's ok. I'd buy him a farm for his horses.

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    MMMM i love this daydream.

    pay off all my debt
    buy us an awesome house in central austin
    buy a tricked out brand new Range Rover Supercharged
    buy an Aston Martin
    buy my parents an average house
    pay off my parent's car
    buy my brother an older volvo (1st car)
    best party ever!
    nice gifts for all my friends. not cars, but purses, electronics, jewelry
    get married with a badass wedding!
    buy a boat
    invest
    go an a 6 week tour the world vacation.
    come home and try to figure out what to do to better the world for the rest of my life!
    Last edited by austinatalie; 04-28-2008 at 07:03 PM.

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    BEWBIES. Then, all the good-natured stuff, like providing college funds for family members, donating to Planned Parenthood and animal societies. I'd buy a house (not a carzybig one, just anormal house) and live off the interest of my monies and do charity work.

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    You! I thought you did and was so happy for you! lol

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    Ok, you have two choices. Take 1/2 as a lump sum, or an annuity stream which with a future value of 80mill. Most people will blow right through that lump sum on stupid shit in a few years. Yup, it happens all the time. As for me, I'd want pretty much the same as most of you:

    1. Payoff all of my creditors and my familiy's creditors.

    2. Invest a bunch of stuff at NAV (as a licensed fin. advisor, I can invest net of fees, haha)

    3. Quit my career, at least for now.

    4. Buy my mom a small Swiss Chalet. Well, the entire family can stay there.

    5. Exotic world trip!!

    6. Send a big check to Big Cat Rescue in Florida

    7. Send a big check to the Stem-Cell Research people

    8. Perhaps buy a dance studio/import shop. Hire instructors to teach all of my favorite dance styles. Travel constantly and shop for cool stuff for the store!

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    - Set up my son for the rest of his life.
    - pay off my mortage
    - start a foundation in my mothers name for ovarian cancer research
    - buy my retirement home
    - start traveling

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    To quote a pro baseball player from the past:

    "I would probably spend 80% of it on booze, gambling, and women. The rest I'll probably waste."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Katrine View Post

    6. Send a big check to Big Cat Rescue in Florida
    OMG I love them! Did you see the sand cats? They look like Hey Arnold.



    Winning the lottery, what a crazy idea. It's weird to think about it because I don't need a lot to live, and I simply cannot imagine what life would be like if I even tripled my income, much less multipled it by hundreds or thousands. Because of this, I think I'd likely be one of those idiots who blew through it in a year because I decided to buy the entire inventory of every Hot Topic I stumbled across or something (don't laugh at me, Hot Topic has cute ties). But assuming I could actually keep my head on straight and not decide to buy three dozen pedigreed bald cats and a space shuttle:

    Mom and Dad can have a bunch of millions, first of all. So can my brother. I wouldn't particularly care what they did with it.

    I would like to pay off my best friend's student and personal loans and get her set up with a decent place in NY (or any city of her choosing); she's always had to work so hard.

    I'd buy a house in LA for my boyfriend and me. It would be in his name, though, in case stuff between us doesn't work out between us. Also I don't particularly want to move there right away, so he can hang on to it and decorate it with edgy art-kid stuff while I run around for a few years and drop in for visits.

    I'd like a biodiesel Winnebago or something, one with a decent-sized shower and a functional kitchen. I would start driving around North and South America. It would be nice if either my brother or my boyfriend could come with me, but as they're both on multiple-year contracts at their jobs, it would probably just be me and Farley (my cat). Which is just fine. We'd go have big adventures... I'd jump off a lot of cliffs, because that's my favorite, and I'd finally be able to afford decent health insurance.

    When that was over, I'd travel the rest of the world. I'd prefer to do so over the course of at least a year or two.

    Ooh I'd buy a fancy new Mac laptop and replace all my CDs that got scratched or shitty from being thrown around my car all these years.

    I'd buy some land in Hawaii.

    Maybe I'd get a boob job, but maybe not, because I hate to say it, but I'd totally quit dancing if I won the lottery, and big boobs would kind of get in the way during all the rugged outdoor things I want to do.

    I'd have to start doing a lot of research on charities and non-profit orgs, because I'd prefer to give a few very large gifts to especially focused and productive organizations so they can really make some progress. Planned Parenthood ranks up there, I think.

    The rest goes to my dad so he can invest it, because he's the smartest man I know.


    ...Wow, I am such a daydreamy flake. It just took me like an hour to write that post because I was spacing out and what-iffing big time.

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    A. take the money in a lump sum and pay the $30 million due in federal and state income taxes, leaving $50 million

    B. invest the whole works in state and fed tax exempt muni bonds, producing a tax-free income of about $2.5 million per year

    C. blow the $2.5 mil every year in the most decadent ways possible !!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by teeth_of_the_hydra View Post
    OMG I love them! Did you see the sand cats? They look like Hey Arnold.
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    Yes, I LOVE the sand cats, they are so cute and tiny!

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    I take mine back. I'd do what Melonie said. She is brilliant!!!

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    I'd do what Melonie said, and then...

    1. Pay off all my debts.
    2. Pay off K's debt (which isn't much).
    3. Buy a condo in Hollywood (for work) and a 4-bedroom house in the mountains, with a wide porch and a cozy window seat and a huge chef's kitchen. A Victorian house. In previous fantasies this house has been in Vermont or Big Bear, but at the moment after spending a week here, I am most inclined to put this house in Bozeman, MT.
    4. Adopt my daughter. I'm psychologically and emotionally ready for motherhood, I just need the financial stability at this point. Maybe I might get married as part of this.
    5. Produce a movie or two and spend the rest of my life as a filmmaker.

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    1. Get an accountant.


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    ^^^ I'd hire Melonie to be my accountant.

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    Donate
    Buy a house for myself and my boyfriend
    a room for my cat all pimped out(yes im obsessed with my cat, but hes sooo cute!!)
    a house for my sister
    money to my mother so she can quit her job and be set for life
    money to close friends
    then off to the strip club!!

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    I would take the lump sum, wait for the real estate bubble to burst, and then go bargain hunting. I would use part of the money to grow my business. Also, I would invest $10M in gold, just in case all hell breaks loose.

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    I'd take the Melonie route as well, at least as far as investing. Then:

    Responsible stuff:
    Finish up school ASAP and get the hell out of NJ.
    Move somewhere decent, where I can have a cat.
    Pay off remaining debt.
    Pay off tuition for the boy and a couple of my college friends.
    Go to grad school where I'd like to, even though it's expensive.
    Set up my niece for college.
    Get some sort of hybrid car.
    Eventually buy a house, somewhere pastoral.
    Donate, esp to PP and literacy groups.
    Set up a scholarship for future museumchicks.

    Less responsible:
    Buy all the books. Ever.
    Make a serious dent in my local MAC counter/Sephora.
    Visit all the teeny tiny countries I can-Andorra, Luxembourg, etc.
    Have a big, well appointed sewing room.
    Have a pet sting ray.
    Become eccentric old lady.

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