If you had a million dollars? If you had 100 million?

Clear of taxes, if you had that much, what would you do with it?

...and build a sort of compound for my loved ones. Take care of them, and start a charity. Then work to raise money for something while my husband tinkers in his kick ass workshop and invents.
That's about it. Oh, and travel.
Duckie

:D

There's so much on rexresearch.com I want to try and build, good ideas minus the fringe stuff as well as have a separate building just for writing/meditation. Something with no computer hookups and other such distractions.

What kinds of things does your husband invent? :)

But he doesn't have the ability at this point. I think his interests lean towards robots. And he would like to work on energy sources and no emission vehicles.
Duckie

Send him over to rexresearch; he may be there for days, though. There's a lot to read ;)

Pay off my house and debts, set up college savings accounts for the kids, and roll the remainder (roughly $500k) into a retirement account for me and the wife.

$100 million? Same as above, but with a slightly larger retirement account, a nice sailboat to cruise the world in, and a place on the Oregon coast near Yachats. I'd roll $50 mil into a charitable trust to support social and environmental causes, and use the remainder to fund scientific research competitions...my own mini-version of the X-Prize with a focus on environmental projects (e.g. "The first team to figure out how to filter nitrogen from farm runoff gets a $2 million prize")

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I'd pay off the mortgages of my family members, pay off my student loans, pay off Lelapin's student loans and go see my sister in England. I haven't seen her in almost 4 years and don't know if I'll ever get over there.

$100 million - I'd start that large non-profit. :)

I'd get Lelapin and me new cars so we don't have to worry what's going to fall off the cars next. :)

havent you always wanted a monkey

:rofl: kidding

I'd start with them...

My family is already provided for.

I'd fund some of my favorite charities...

But my friends would come first.

...settle the debts on Sweetie's business. Make sure no Democrat in this county ever needs another fundraiser. Then it will be a very good year for the Center for Inquiry, the International Dark Sky Association, the James Randi Educational Foundation and the House Rabbit Society.

and start a record label ;)

with a Million, little would change. I might upgrade my living and driving, but that's about it. I would help family and friend.

With a 100 million I would quit work. I would split my time between volunteer work and running a philanthropic organization.

Devoted to career training and or college for single parents who cannot afford higher education.

10% would be donated to a few smaller charities, 5% would be set aside for family dispersal.
With 100 million, the first million is mine, the second would go to family and friends, and the 98 million remaining would be disbursed to charities.

All I want is to maintain my life of loving and making art, owning a small home, stockpiling necessities like food, water and clothing. In fact, five would probably be excessive, but it would be "just in case" money.

I've had my fun. I really believe a quiet, healthy, unassumed and disciplined life is better in every way. My parents lived that way, and they turned out fantastic.

Give a chunk of cash to family and loved ones so that they'd be set up for a nice lifestyle. I'd by a decent house on a nice chunk of dirt. I'd buy a Pagani Zonda roadster and a small SUV (for the rain and towing). The rest would go into a trust where 90% of the interest went to charity.

I think the first year's interest would go to Sea Shepherd to buy them a new ship, the flvegan.

and get myself a new car. I like my car, but it's getting old. I'd put money away for LK's education.

Honestly, the answers are pretty much the same either way, because either sum is more than I need, and I'm not into wasteful spending.

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Sorry, but none of that money would go towards his bail money!

:evilgrin:

I figure if I had a million bucks I could hook something like that up.

:thumbsup:

At least the type of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me do.

:spank:

:7

Then I'd buy Devo and make them perform for my breakfast every morning till I ran out of money.

and retirement with a million.

With 100 million, I'd just go straight to retirement, buy some property at a few choice locations around the world...

pay off my parents and siblings houses. If anything was left.... I don't know.

with a million, the usual, put $$ aside for my daughter's college fund, pay off whatever bills i had left and help out some friends and give money to charity.

with 100 million? First pass out, upon waking panic, collect myself, call my accountant and arrange to give about 85% of it away and then do the same as above but add in a whole bunch of travel.

Start a non-profit or a foundation of some sort, donate money to my alma maters (both high school and collegiate), try and do something for the city of Boulder, buy season tickets for the Colorado Rockies and the Denver Broncos, travel the world, buy an entire library's worth of books, get a new camera, travel across the country, and disappear for a while.

Not that I've thought about it much or anything...

and go back to school.

The rest I'd give away, invest, help, and drink up.

:)

And then I'd buy more stuff. I might give some to charity, but not until I've gotten me some stuff.

Seriesly, the interest income off that is barely enough to support myself in the style to which I have become accustomed, only minus the daily grind.

100 mill? Now we're talking. Some serious NOLA rebuilding would be in order. I might adopt a neighborhood such as gentilly that doesn't get as much press as Lower Nine, and go into competition with Brad Pitt. :-)

pay off my wife and I's current bills, pay off my father/mother in laws bills, and my brother in laws bills...pay off my brothers/parents bills...

Donate a bit of money to American Indian College Fund, and to Haskell/Sequayah(in Tahlequah)...

Sell our house in Missouri...move back to Alaska, build a 9 bedroom cabin out in the wilderness, near a lake...buy a plane, get my pilots liscense, buy a 60ft sail boat...

Live my life in peace.....relatively speaking.

ETA:I'd also buy stock in DC Comics/Warner Brothers, and become an even Bigger superman collector, :D

You've got to have experience to get a job; my business would let people get experience so they could get jobs with other people.

I even have a name: The Cannery.

Give a man a fish, he eats for a day.
Teach him to fish, he eats for a lifetime.
But build a fish cannery, and the whole town eats.

and I match 10 of my BDUFFs - assuming I had any! :P

If I was 30 years younger I'd keep a dozen, give the rest away.

Maybe I'd get a WWII era German MG42 machine gun and go to Africa and shoot ivory poachers.

Set up trust funds for the kids. Take an extended vacation. Get my knee fixed. Get my dental work done. Donate to my favorite charities. I could go on...

What would you study?

enjoy it and not worry about my grades. I would take classes that are still taught in the classroom. I despise online courses. I love being on campus and in a classroom. I am a real nerd :blush:

I think learning for the sake of knowledge, is a good thing

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pay off bills, and then buy the house I've been living in for the past two years.

100 Million? Pretty much the same thing, though my house might be custom built instead of the townhouse that I'm living in.

I love this plan that I found in one of the Not So Big House books:

http://healthyhomeplans.com/home_plans/home_plan_detail.php?plan_id=24








UGH, I forgot to include setting up a trust for charitable donations, primarily to the women and children's shelter where I took Tae Kwon Do classes for many years.

Every hedonistic indulgence possible. I'd make Thompson in Fear and Loathing look like a teetotaler.

If I had a million dollars,the first thing I would do is
purchase a house for myself.

Nothing too extravagant,but something to call home.

I would then help out my family,set aside a small amount of
money for myself,and donate some money to charity.

As for 100 million dollars,I am not sure what I would do with
that much,so that question would require a lot more thought,
as I think it would be a big responsibility as to how I would
spend it.

I've never been on a vacation before,so if I can ever afford it,
then maybe one day I might want to go to Cabo San Lucas Mexico,
and party with the best,get myself a tan.

I come from very humble beginnings,and currently live on a salary
of less than 20 000 dollars a yr,which is considered the poverty level
here in Canada.

But I have a warm bed to sleep in at night,and food on the table
everyday,so I guess I can't complain.

However,it is nice to dream,isn't it? lol