When I win the lottery...

[Speck Tater]

When I win the lottery I will split the money with my three kids and my ex-wife. I will quit my day job. I will build a greenhouse on my property and get a nice garden tractor and plant that big veggie garden I've never had time to plant.

I will NOT squander the money on yachts and fancy cars and a bigger house. If anything, I'll get a smaller house with a bigger yard. I have more indoor space than I need or use, and only 2 acres of outdoor space.

Mostly, I will simplify my already simple lifestyle even further.

What will YOU do when you win the lottery?

[Sympleesmshn]

1. I want a J-65

which is a 65' racing sailboat and a house on the water with lots of land around it... I think I would get a few smaller boats, build a "party" building, and spend time with my friend who works with orphans in South America. I would invest the rest and spend lots of time helping the less fortunate people all over the world...

[Bunny]

2. Get a great big set of brand new boobs!

:silly:

[Texasgal]

5. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

OMG! I think I love you! :)

[yellowdogintexas]

12. I want a nice set of significantly smaller boobs

and a flatter stomach while they are at it.

too bad we can't swap.

PS big boobs are not all they are reputed to be.

they get heavy and make your neck ache and you get dents in your shoulders and it is hard to find a good bra and you can't button your blouses properly and

YOU ALWAYS RUN INTO MEN WHO THINK YOUR IQ MATCHES YOUR BUST MEASUREMENT

[xmas74]

19. Amen to that!

My brother is having a Ren-fest wedding and all are expected to dress up. It has become the family joke that I will be the serving wench. Why? Because of my "assets" up top.
People think that I whine because I wake up with upper back aches in the morning. Let them try it! And the way that bras fit-let's not go there. And you never can find a pretty one, either.
Most men don't know my eye color (grey) or anything else about me. All they notice is red hair and boobs.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Settle the debts in my family, buy lotsa land and put up

"green" houses for family members. Grow some gardens (not just veggies, though)

Buy my family hybrid vehicles.

Put some aside for college for the kids and retirement for us.

Travel. All over the world.

Donate money and time to charities and candidates.

Start some scholarships.

If I won a LOT of money, maybe refurbish or help build a library in a needy area.

Buy my cheerleaders some tumbling mats.

[antigone382]

4. I will help my mom and grandparents find nice homes.

I'll pay for college and vet school, then I'll set up my veterinary clinic in a small western town. Once my clinic is relatively established, I'll buy some land with a view of the mountains, and build my horse farm. I'd also like to do what I can to help my brother make it in the musid industry. If there's any left over (not counting what I'd like to keep for the future), I'd like to start a community theatre program, and donate to good progressive causes.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

16. Hey Antigone!

:hi:

What's your Est. Grad date from Vet school!

(Fellow animal lover here)

[nuxvomica]

6. I will buy a lot of land and lay parallel train tracks

And two handcars and have races. I'm sure I'll do more than that but I can't think past the handcar races.

[Sympleesmshn]

7. THAT IS GOOD

I will remember that one for when I am rich...

[RevolutionaryActs]

8. When I win the lottery...

I'll be rich. :+

[Huckebein the Raven]

10. ba-ziiing

:P

[Huckebein the Raven]

9. For me:

Pay off debt

Take a few months and travel around the world.

Move to the south of France or some other place nice :shrug:

Take up painting

Maybe restore a Datsun Fairlady Z

other things I can't think of at the moment

????

[HEyHEY]

11. Two chicks at the same time

[yellowdogintexas]

13. here is what I'd do:

If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
I'd buy you a house
(I would buy you a house)
If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
I'd buy you furniture for your house
(Maybe a nice chesterfield or an ottoman)
And if I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you a K-Car
(A nice Reliant automobile)
If I had a million dollars I'd buy your love

If I had a million dollars
I'd build a tree fort in our yard
If I had million dollars
You could help, it wouldn't be that hard
If I had million dollars
Maybe we could put like a little tiny fridge in there somewhere
You know, we could just go up there and hang out
Like open the fridge and stuff
There would already be laid out foods for us
Like little pre-wrapped sausages and things

They have pre-wrapped sausages but they don't have pre-wrapped bacon
Well, can you blame 'em
Uh, yeah

If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you a fur coat
(But not a real fur coat that's cruel)
And if I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you an exotic pet
(Yep, like a llama or an emu)
And if I had a million dollars
(If I had a a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you John Merrick's remains
(Ooh, all them crazy elephant bones)
And If I had a million dollars I'd buy your love

If I had a million dollars
We wouldn't have to walk to the store
If I had a million dollars
Now, we'd take a limousine 'cause it costs more
If I had a million dollars
We wouldn't have to eat Kraft Dinner
But we would eat Kraft Dinner
Of course we would, we’d just eat more
And buy really expensive ketchups with it
That’s right, all the fanciest ke... dijon ketchups!
Mmmmmm, Mmmm-Hmmm

If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you a green dress
(But not a real green dress, that's cruel)
And if I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you some art
(A Picasso or a Garfunkel)
If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you a monkey
(Haven't you always wanted a monkey)

If I had a million dollars
I’d buy your love

If I had a million dollars, If I had a million dollars
If I had a million dollars, If I had a million dollars
If I had a million dollars
I'd be rich

[yellowdogintexas]

14. but for real, I would set up a trust for my daughter

donate to charity, especially my church

join all the museums, and the zoo and NPR and PBS stations at the high level, just because I can

fix up my house and hire a maid service...cause I hate housecleaning

make sure my sisters and their kids are secure, especially the farm family.

travel, travel, travel. Especially to interesting foreign cooking classes, or unusual natural wonders

fund a scholarship and name it after my grandfather and my mother, for kids graduating from my old high school

fund another scholarship and name it for my favorite professor in college..for English majors at my old school

if I were to change my residence, I might try to find a piece of land large enough for a couple or three horses, and put in a small stable and a nice little house and let my daughter and her best bud live there.
Then later we could build a nice house that we could customize for the unforseen eventualities of old age, like wide doors in case of wheelchair need, handrails, etc. Whirlpool tub, steam shower, garden room, environmentally friendly, possibly a partial berm house..

that is one possibility..another would be to find a good sturdy old home and restore/remodel it. I will never lose my love for high ceilings, large rooms, expansive porches etc. That comes from growing up where people still routinely live in 100 year old houses, I guess.

who knows,but it wouldn't be yachts and cars and diamonds and furs and so on.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. I will

remember various causes, charitable, artistic, and political. I'd volunteer for projects that touched my heart, and then indulge myself as follows:

1. Buy an urban condo (with one room furnished Japanese style) and a Prius.
2. Attend a lot of arts events.
3. Travel, and possibly get a second home overseas.
4. Leave money to my nieces and nephews with the following provisions:
a) They'll get financial support for college and grad school and an additional year of money to travel
b) In my will, they will be unable to claim any part of the estate until the age of 40, except for a narrow set of emergency situations. This is to avoid the "coasting through life" (aka G.W. Bush) syndrome and to require them to achieve something on their own. However, a windfall at age 40 will be just in time to fund their midlife crisis. :-)

I'm not into big cars, big houses, big boats, private jets, gadgetry for the sake of gadgetry, or designer clothes.

[marigold20]

17. First, I'll need to buy a lottery ticket, win, then...

1. Pay my son's student loans.
2. Trust funds for all needy relatives.
3. Fun money to "doing OK" relatives.
4. Quit job - that should be #1 I guess!!
5. Build an elaborate outdoor cat house o' fun! The poor things need to go outside but they need to be safe too.
6. Spend autumn in the north, winter in gulf state, spring and early summer in tornado alley, storm chasing, summer in Montana...

[BlueHandDuo]

18. When I win the lottery, my family...

...will petition to have me declared incompetent (on the evidence that I played the lotter, so, hey!) and become guardians of my assets, which they will assiduously manage on my behalf according to their own better judgment of my interests, and I'll never get my hands on a penny of it.

Fuck that. I ain't playin'.

[Skittles]

20. quit working and help out a whole lot of people

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