So you win the lottery

[Patek23]

so you've won the lottery for 40,000,000. what do you do now?


I pay of the parents home, Buy them a new mansion and rent out the payed off one, Build my self a manor, donate 15,000 to CP (I promised I would if I ever became wealthy) buy a yacht and spend the rest of my days trying to pick-up hot chicks eventually get married and then spend my age-old days sitting around doing whatever I feel like.

[arsenal]

1) Pay off parents house
2) Sell parents house, send them on a cruise around the world
3) Buy parents a new house, my mom a mercedes, and my dad a jag.
4) Buy my brother house in greece, and car that he wants.
5) Invest about 1/4 of what is left
6) Donate about 1/4 to charities
7) Buy a house in Miami, buy a few cars, chace all the hot miami woman for a year or 10
8) Start a company of some sort. Probably game development.

Think thats it.

[shoestring]

Hide in Swift Current for awhile. Pick there brains.Buy a library card.
Buy a 10,000 house in Kennedy Sask, then go into hiding in Moosamin.
Sneak into the cheque processing place,disguise yourself ,take the pictures,disappear into Biggar Sask. Payoff debts of yours and parents .
Maybe some friends. Hide in Lloydminister Sask then in Lloydminister Alberta.
Then keep reversing provinces until you get the tirekickers off your back.
Follow the F1 tour under an assumed name for a year.
Then surface to say hello knowing that you are leaving tommorrow.
Live happily ever after in Kennedy.

[Patek23]

Originally posted by shoestring@Sep 1 2005, 01:01 AM
Hide in Swift Current for awhile. Pick there brains.Buy a library card.
Buy a 10,000 house in Kennedy Sask, then go into hiding in Moosamin.
Sneak into the cheque processing place,disguise yourself ,take the pictures,disappear into Biggar Sask. Payoff debts of yours and parents .
Maybe some friends. Hide in Lloydminister Sask then in Lloydminister Alberta.
Then keep reversing provinces until you get the tirekickers off your back.
Follow the F1 tour under an assumed name for a year.
Then surface to say hello knowing that you are leaving tommorrow.
Live happily ever after in Kennedy.

I can say that I reread that thing over 10 times and don't understand what the hell you would actually do

[Buff]

- Pay off student loans
- Retire my parents and my wife's parents
- Move my sister-in-law to a far away place
- Buy a couple of reliable and more family style vehicles
- Get a bigger house, but not a mansion.
- Get season tickets to the Flames, even though I live in Lethbridge and won't make all games.
- Fund my bosses "project" which will in turn make them millions too.
- Buy a condo on Kauai and probably one on Mauii too.
and since I could finally afford to do so... donate some money to CalgaryPuck so I don't have to see those annoying ads that Flash! Those should be banned from Internet use... they aren't even safe.
- Bring Badass Jack's and it's other brands of restaurants to Lethbridge
- Donate heavily to charities
- move my other sister-in-law to a better farm and closer to Lethbridge
- help out friends and family

[shoestring]

Originally posted by Flaming Homer+Sep 1 2005, 02:05 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Flaming Homer @ Sep 1 2005, 02:05 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-shoestring@Sep 1 2005, 01:01 AM
Hide in Swift Current for awhile. Pick there brains.Buy a library card.
Buy a 10,000 house in Kennedy Sask, then go into hiding in Moosamin.
Sneak into the cheque processing place,disguise yourself ,take the pictures,disappear into Biggar Sask. Payoff debts of yours and parents .
Maybe some friends. Hide in Lloydminister Sask then in Lloydminister Alberta.
Then keep reversing provinces until you get the tirekickers off your back.
Follow the F1 tour under an assumed name for a year.
Then surface to say hello knowing that you are leaving tommorrow.
Live happily ever after in Kennedy.

I can say that I reread that thing over 10 times and don't understand what the hell you would actually do [/b][/quote]

Don't understand what the hell I would actually do?
The same thing you should actually do,.... HIDE ! .

40 mill come on ,you can never party that much!
But you will have friends climbing out of the woodwork.
That's why I picked Sask. Trying not to surface.
Oh wait ,your young enough that your friends don't give a hoot about money.
Take them on the F1 circuit with you and you will soon figure it out.
Hide my friend ,shift around ,invest your money correctly, SC brains (as good as any others)(library card),buy a cheap house in a nowhere town, (just in case) "Kennedy" and sneak around. Hide because that much money opens you up to lots of potential problems not necessarily of your own making. :angry:
Pm me I will protect you
40 mill scary stuff kids
Sorry that you can't figure out my rambling posts ,I guess I shouldn't.

[Frank the Tank]

Well, right now, I'd pay off my debts/mortgage, put some in the college fund. Parents are fine. No debt, house is payed off and they are retired. I'd pay off my brothers student loans and his car.

Then I'd floor the world by donating all thats left to cancer research. Seriously. Seems like everyone I know is dying of fataing cancer lately. I don't need money to be happy, nor would I want it. Too many hassles, too many people trying to be your "friends".

[Looger]

#1 hole up and hide, hire a bodyguard. those charities are a little pushy.

#2 pay off old debts

#3 go to vegas, put $10,000 on black 31

#4 travel, live life, and don't get too caught up in possessions. invest in international business opportunities, and by invest i don't mean lend money to poor people at high interest - i mean utilize the vast wealth of human potential to accomplish something in the 2nd and 3rd world.

[Cowperson]

Get a new garden shed.

Expand our garden.

Renovate my house.

Buy the surrounding land.

Buy a new SUV and get the missus a new vehicle.

Go on a round the world cruise . . . . in stages.

Probably set up a charitable trust to dole money out to various concerns through time.

Throw the rest on the pile and keep going.

Cowperson

[TheyCallMeBruce]

Pay off my parents debts and my debts. Help out my closest friends with their finances. Then, become a ballar and start a canadian version of Gumball 3000.

[Faid1]

Here's a good guide for us dreamers

http://www.rotten.com/library/culture/lottery-winners/

[FireFly]

Pay off my debts, my parent's, my sister's, and my brother's. Set up trust funds for all their children. Build a big house. Donate much to cancer research, and diagnostic medical equipment for the provinces, and run for office!

I'd probably take a cruise and travel to all the places I want to see, and then run for office.

[Eagle Eye]

Pay off my house, my parents and inlaws places.

Invest heavly in Realestate.

Travel the world.

Donate a good chunk to Cancer research (like Frank mentioned it is crazy how much this affects the people you know).

[nfotiu]

Buy a tank of gas

[dancynator]

i would try and buy the flames

[Barnes]

Besides 2 Chicks at one time?

Whatever I wanted. I would have some fun for awhile then look at doing something good. I wouldn't just donate money I would go places and help. You know, take my wad of cash to the frontline instead of just writing cheques. First I would go to China and free those bears that you see in that commercial and break the legs of every last one of the people responsible. If I won on Friday, I would go to the Gulf states and set up a wood recycling centre and make new building materials out of the debris so that new homes could be built.
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[flamefan74]

Originally posted by shoestring@Sep 1 2005, 08:01 AM
Hide in Swift Current for awhile. Pick there brains.Buy a library card.
Buy a 10,000 house in Kennedy Sask, then go into hiding in Moosamin.
Sneak into the cheque processing place,disguise yourself ,take the pictures,disappear into Biggar Sask. Payoff debts of yours and parents .
Maybe some friends. Hide in Lloydminister Sask then in Lloydminister Alberta.
Then keep reversing provinces until you get the tirekickers off your back.
Follow the F1 tour under an assumed name for a year.
Then surface to say hello knowing that you are leaving tommorrow.
Live happily ever after in Kennedy.

Just wonderin. Have you ever been to Kennedy. Because those drunks will blow your 40 mil in no time. Good buddy of mine is from there and no way I would go. Also, you have to watch out for the border patrol at Lloyd. You Albertans can be tough on us Sask boys.

As for what I would do:
1) Give the parents money. Tell them to have fun on me.
2) Sell everything I have. I have some nice stuff, but really, I could buy better.
3) Go to Vegas and make a big, stupid bet on a longshot.
4) After winning longshot, move to Greece and buy vineyard.
5) Spend the rest of my days making wine and getting drunk.
6) Make yearly trip back to Calgary for the playoffs.

[Phanuthier]

I'd take the 40 mill, invest half, spend 10 mill on a house, car, ect, then take the rest of the 10 mill and play the stock market - hopefully turn that 10 mill into another 40 mill. Use the money to make more money.

[loob job]

I would probably be dead in two years from booze, drugs and partying.....what a time it would be though.

[albertGQ]

I would invest the whole thing in low risk and low interest stocks and bonds