I'll get the thread started with my list:
#1. I'd make sure my daughter and son in law never had to work unless they wanted to
#2. I'd buy some land across the river and build a new underground home with geo thermal and solar heating and cooling as well as solar, wind (and maybe hydro) electric generators
#3. While it was being built, I'd take seven other golfers to St Andrews and St James and pay their way
#4. I'd buy a new computer (with soft ware and tech support) for everyone on my Friends List
#5 I'd try to visit as many of them as would like to meet in person individually
BUY
Beach front property
build a nice beach house
but a nice boat
get a new car
invest some money
what's left give it friends who need help
Take care of my kids
Pay for a friends operation and meds
Buy another friend a house wherever they want with lots of room inside and out
Travel visiting friends all over
Throw a party foe everyone to meet
Take care of my mom and kids future
buy large lot for an animal sanctuary (dogs, goats and ducks)
travel the world
study dance, write, create, buy costumes and do all the things I wish I could do without this pesky job thing
Give half to charity, preferably Habitat for Humanity.
Set my kids up with moderate trust funds, so they can be comfortable without being spoiled.
Quit my job and write.
Travel the world with my inamorata.
Pay off the national debt before Trump defaults on it, and declares bankruptcy for the U.S. (What?! You weren't thinking THAT huge?)
Lol you seem to have given up..on hillary
Buy a beach front house, a hill cottage and adopt all dogs from the shelter..... maybe pay for a girl childs education as well
I would have a penis enlargement and some new towels for the bathroom.
I would likely buy KK some beige carpets too.
I think I'd hide the money in mason jars and bury them around my house.
I'd pay for my space travel adventure....
I'll buy all gun factories in the country and burn them in to ashes.
I'll hire Satan as a personal advisor for Lush affairs.
I would buy a rustic log cabin next to a large lake surrounded by lush forests, with my closest neighbor being 5 miles away.
buy a small boat for the dock
get a new used pick up truck
Find ways to support and help Native Americans and help those who are truly in need.
If you think you can, you will. If you doubt, you may never try.
Buy land and recreate one of my favorite Versailles castles.
Own a bunch of great taxidermy.
Build my parents dream home distance from the home I would have built for me.
Two Elite clubs.
I wouldn't stop working though.
Buy all my red meat at Harrods
Replace my car probably with a lovely Audi (RS4) or BMW (M4)
Move house
Perhaps a small boat
See what I could do for my sons
Buy Kiera a cheeseburger and large fries from the trailer van at the local DIY store
Retire and probably help Simmie open that home for abused and homeless women’s she sometimes waxes about.
Help both our families be comfortable. There are a few young people we’d pay for education. Get us a nice place by the ocean. Beyond that I don’t have big needs. Time is my most valuable commodity these days.
Buy Milik the home in the country he wants so bad. Build the woman’s home for abused and homeless woman that is so near to my heart. Make sure my children and grandchildren are taken care of, with what’s left if anything. But an RV and enjoy our lives together.
Retire early along with my other half. Find a house in in Italy or France to buy and live a good part of the year there. Spend time travelling to places we love and others that have been our to do list. We would probably fly different friends and family members over to visit us in Europe.
I would want to set up trust funds to educate some young people in our lives and help our families to be more comfortable.
I am certain we would use some of the money to support causes we believe in.
On a more everyday scale, I would buy whatever books I want to read as soon as they come out (and actually have the time to read them) and always have fresh flowers in our homes. Perhaps I would spend more time writing and learning how to paint with watercolours.
Money will not make your life perfect. It will give you the funds to make choices without that being a consideration. The important thing that money can give you is more time to enjoy your life.
Build a music studio and open a small club.
Give my family enough to retire and live comfortably on.
Travel the world.
There is an SCCA road racing class called GT-1. 700 HP, tube frame, carbon fiber body, big wide slicks and a think. I'd like to race again, and GT-1 sounds like too much fun.
We can't retire from our main jobs, we are writers. So:
Buy mountain woodland, at least forty acres at 7 to 8 thousand feet. Probably in northern New Mexico.
Build a zero carbon footprint house with a huge workshop.
Equip said house and workshop with every appliance and tool I think might be useful.
Buy a Mercedes Benz Sprinter 4wd.
Buy a practical electric vehicle, maybe custom built since I don't see one.
Invest in several Cryptocurrencies.
Contribute heavily to a friend's animal shelter, maybe $500k would give her a big boost.
Rescue abandoned TV shows. We are tired of good shows being dropped because the advertisers don't think they can squeeze enough from them. At least one show was dropped in the middle of a two-parter. Carnivale could do with at least one more season. And Boomtown.
Oops, nearly forgot, a Gigabit connection and computers and network gear to the tune of $100K.
TransitionalMan, I'm too old to race and my husband wouldn't like it. I might be able to get some thrills vicariously by sponsoring you.
1. I'd help my parents
2. I'd open a shelter for animals
3. I'd finish my movie room
4. I'd completely renovate my house
5. I'd travel
Set up ongoing college scholarship funds for financially needy students
Give to Habitat for Humanity
Expand and improve a homeless shelter/feeding ministry l help out at
Set up a continuous charitable fund for Egleston Children's Hospital
Purchase a large tract of rural wooded property in the mountains and build a luxury cabin
Have an incredible sportscar and antique car collection
Spend more time fishing
Buy whatever my wife wants
Feed the hungry.
Give more to the ASPCA.
Provide clothing for the poor.
Give a free education to all.
Quit procrastinating and finish my stone fence.
Provide books to young children.
Inspire my kids to be a better person than me.
Be a better writer and step away from the arcane.
Stop the world and let people get off on a civilized planet.
