What would you do with $50M?

[Buff]

Pay off debts, bigger house, nicer cars, invest, blah blah blah.

Then have one heck of a weekend in Vegas.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by FlaminFeva

I'd take everyone on this board on my new yaht.

My guess is that tub would clean you out. You could buy it, but couldn't afford the gas.

Just like a Gulfstream IV jet would cost you 30 mil plus maintenance.

[Dorkmaster]

Do a career change and go around learning more about food and cooking, as well as going back to Calgary.

[CaptainCrunch]

Buy a new wardrobe

[MoneyGuy]

I'd invest $10 million with Slava just to see if he's as good as I am. I doubt it but anything is possible. I'd buy a house for my daughter and her new hubby and pay for the rest of their university education. I'd tell them that education costs for their future kids are fully taken care of now go ahead and breed. I'd set up a trust for my son, who is not in a house-owning position. I'd have Vlad do the legal work to set up a MoneyGuy Charitable Foundation and give out a nice sum each year to worthwhile causes. I'd come to Calgary and put on the biggest bash for CP members you've ever seen. I'd buy a house in the Excited States where the missus and I could winter. I'd sell my business and invest the rest for income and retire to a life of luxury.

That's about it.

[I_H8_Crawford]

I would start up my own company, retain the services of a lawyer I trust and have them accept the $50 million on my company's behalf.

Then I will use that money to invest and as CEO pay myself based on the interest of the investments.

And no one would know I won it unless I told them

[Methanolic]

I'd troll all the Timmy's til I found a single mother, But I'd give her 4 50 dollar bills!!!


MMMWWWAAAAAA HAAAA HAAAAA HAAAAAAA!!!!!!!

[CaptainCrunch]

2 words

Dangerous Drugs.

[Shazam]

Have a beer. Maybe one of those alcoholic types.

[OilKiller]

Bet it all on red and see what happens...

[Potty]

- Invest $20M in interest-bearing investments to live on.
- Invest $5M in a long-term equity investments.
- Give away $15M to family
- Give away $5M to charity
- Spend $5M on: a nice house for my family in a good neighbourhood for my kids to grow up, a couple cars, a boat and a wicked vacation home in Hawaii

And I would cancel my CP account so you bunch of peasants couldn't hit me up for some cash!

[Traditional_Ale]

Originally Posted by MoneyGuy

I'd invest $10 million with Slava just to see if he's as good as I am. I doubt it but anything is possible.

Made me lol.

I'd buy a house for my daughter and her new hubby and pay for the rest of their university education. I'd tell them that education costs for their future kids are fully taken care of now go ahead and breed.

I shot coffee through my nose.

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by Yeah_Baby

I'd invent a flux capacitor.

I'd buy your flux capacitor.

[RW99]

• Pay off dept
• A house or something similar for each sister, educations for all children in the family
• Lump sum donation to two foundations that focus on the conditions that caused the early deaths of my parents
• Throw a houseboat party for a week for closest friends out in BC, fly them all in
• Purchase condo in Calgary, nice home overlooking the water somewhere warm, US Virgin Islands perhaps?
• Travel a lot. Actually learn about the places I'm going to
• Go to film school. More for the fun of it, don't think I would finance any movies
• Make a donation to CP so I don't feel pressured to click on any ads anymore

I am completely happy spending my money in a way so that when I'm 80, I only have $100,000 to my name (not including what I set up for my family). I want to spend it while I'm young. You never know when your last day will be.

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by red sky

Here's a question. If you won the 50 million would you quit your job right away or would you give your employer the appropriate amount of notice? It would be hard not to just up and leave but for some reason that seems really selfish. At the same time, it isn't like you are going to need their reference again...

I work for a non-profit agency that does good work doing something I absolutely love. I would probably keep working for the 4 weeks notice my contract requires.

During that time I would order some serious IT upgrades for them because non-profit IT departments get the royal shaft. Then I would set up a fund that would guarantee they would have money to keep themselves at a reasonable level of technology for a long time.

After I quit, I would go visit family located all over the US and Canada. Pay off my house and my mom's house and get someone to design and build my dream house. Then a good chunk of it would go into real estate and mutual funds (Slava would be a happy camper!) to be able to sustain a reasonable lifestyle for myself and my family.

[missdpuck]

I'd sleep a helluva lot more than I do now.

[MacDaddy77]

I am thinking of doing this in Brazil in the coming years[/QUOTE]


Let me know and my wife and I will come diving with you

[IliketoPuck]

I would make a sweet action movie that would be a cross between the Bourne Identity and 24, with Megan Fox as the leading lady, with gratuitous scenes with me, the hero.....yup sounds good.

Either that or invest it in interest bearing securities and buy a big freaking house to hold the new server for CP.

[PyramidsofMars]

I would:

-buy a swanky apartment in Manhattan, buy a swanky apartment in Downtown Toronto, buy a swanky apartment in Downtown Calgary, buy a swanky apartment in Central London, buy a swanky apartment in A Number of Other Cities
-fill said swanky apartments with high-class escorts and top-notch beer, wine, and single malt whiskey
-sleep with said whores a lot and drink a lot
-make a couple of small scale movies
-rinse, repeat.

[JustAnotherGuy]

This is probably obvious but. I would never do any kind of house work or yard work ever again. My life would become one big hobby.