If you won the lottery, what would you buy first?

[kuyu]

If I won, say, $100,000,000 I know exactly what I'd buy first. The biggest, badest, fastest mac money could buy. Screw a car, a boat, and a mansion, I'd get the mac first.

Dual 2.6Ghz G5
8 gb of ram and every other option
dual 52 plasma monitors
dual 23 HD cinema displays
12 inch powerbook maxed out
15 inch powerbook maxed out
17 inch powerbook maxed out
backbone direct server connection to the internet

My main uses: posting to this forum, scouring irc for xbox iso's, and porn. Overkill I know, but if you're filthy rich, who cares!

What would you buy first if given a truck load of money? Not second, but first. I already know that everyone would buy a jump-to-conclusions mat second.
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[edesignuk]

With $100,000,000, the entire Aston Martin range, and a large country estate...in several countrys.

[Frozone]

The first thing I would do is take out all my friends and family to a place called The Melting Pot in Tallahasee, FL or too Mrs. Wilkes in Savannah, GA. Both very good places to eat! Hahaha and just have a good time about being so rich. Then I would start buying by buying a new state of the art house with just about every thing digital and have it fully equipted with the latest Apple Gadgets! Ohh and I would buy all my friends and family members a Mac!!!!

[Sun Baked]

A nice car, decent house, and a Mac...

Nothing flashy, everything that looks like it'll blend into a middle class living.

And I'd stay away from jewelery, clothes, watches, cars that say -- I've got money please steal from me.

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Of course I'd probably buy a new full size truck, or sprinter van to haul the stuff home first. Probably the van.

Start a investment fraud website and put some lawyers and private detectives on retainer. And form a couple public company shells.

If anybody comes to me with an investment scheme, charge them $10-20k for an interview and fingerprinting session -- and send them to the PI for a criminal background check.

Heck if people want to borrow money, I'm sure as heck not going to read their crap for free.

[e-coli]

1. A sick house
2. Then new 5 series BMW
3. LOTS of stock

[P-Worm]

I often ponder about this (like it's going to do any good) and I have decided what I would do if I was rich. I'd get something that would work more as a life hobby than just stuff. Stuff just builds up, you get tired of, stuff is a pain.

I think I would start a small film production studio. Something where amateurs could join and showcase there talents (myself included). The film industry and all of its politics is so screwed up. We need another Sundance, but won with Sundance's original intentions, not some money making scheme.

Then after that? I'd give it away. I don't want to live rich, that's not my style. I just want to live comfortably and have time to do what I want to do.

Or maybe i'd just blow it all on drugs.

P-Worm

[edesignuk]

Originally posted by e-coli

2. Then new 5 series BMW

A 5 series? Don't get me wrong, a great car, but with all that money? C'mon! At least a 7 ;) ....better yet, a new Bently :D

[Sun Baked]

Somehow some of these house around here seem overpriced and tacky, especially the gold plated gonads on the front gate.

And those 24" gold plated wheels on the SUVs. :rolleyes:

Stick the extra $40k in cash for the wheels in the market, if I can find the Blue Chip stocks and avoid the Enrons.

[Raid]

I would buy a law frim to protect me from the nuts that would come out of the woodwork seeking their pound of flesh from the cash cow. :rolleyes: Then I'd "negotiate" my investment conditions with the bank. :cool:

[mactastic]

I'd start by paying arn for using this site. With a little extra to help get it hosted on X-Serves if possible. :D

Then I'd start buying houses and fixing them up and either sell them at a profit or keep them at a profit and rent them out.

[pivo6]

I'd start in order:

1. Buy new house
2. Get myself and my family completely out of debt.
3. Furnish that new house with cars, macs, etc.
4. Keep enough to live off of and give the rest away to charities.

Not real exciting.

[evoluzione]

a big fat house in the mountains or on the beach, with a load of land so i could build my own race track and off road course etc. then all the top cars i've been dreaming of owning for years, and a huge garage to store/display them in :)


i'd still want to design and build the house though, another one of my lifelong dreams...

[icetraxxg5]

The first thing I would do is put all the money away safe and make sure I don't spend over X amount of $ a year so I'm good for the rest of my life. I would then buy a nice house ~800,000, not too flashy. Screw the corvette, I would buy a mosler photon ( http://www.moslerauto.com ), and a nice everday midsize SUV like a trailblazer. I would also learn to fly (an airplane of course) and buy a nice private jet like a gulfstream 5.

I'm my dreams :(

[mactastic]

Originally posted by evoluzione
i'd still want to design and build the house though, another one of my lifelong dreams...

Call me if you ever do win and want your dream house! Any of you. I'm working on designing and building several million-dollar houses right now (my dream too, only it's not with my money at the moment;) ), and if you are looking for coastal property I'm right here...:D :D

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by e-coli
1. A sick house
2. Then new 5 series BMW
3. LOTS of stock

I think u have the right idea. ;)

Although, I wouldn't go for an absolute ridiculous house, but something nice in a valuable area. I've always wanted a Beamer, so I may go for one as well. As for the stock, I'd play my options a bit. :cool:

Oh yeah, and some camera equipment. :D

[Bengt77]

I'd buy the filmrights for The Hobbit and give them to Peter Jackson for free. Then, I'd buy a fat-ass audio and video system (big widescreen LCD or plasma screen, nice NAD, Harman Kardon or similar component system and some excellent speakers, like Piedpipers'), a fat-ass Mac (G5 of course, but I'd wait with buying that until after MWSF; I'd maybe even go with an Xserve G5 to be announced there) and a fine house downtown (couldn't live 'in the country'; I'm a city person).

And, of course, I'd finally get my driver's license. Don't have the money to go get it now, but I definitely would then. And a car (a Maybach, or some other nice one).

Pretty funny (in some strange, non-ordinary way) question though, if you ask me.

[Mac til death]

-save it
-not live excessively or be obsessed with material things
-not let anyone know how much money I have (not even the person I marry)
-help people in need
-do nice things for my parents

[edesignuk]

Originally posted by Bengt77
And, of course, I'd finally get my driver's license. Don't have the money to go get it now, but I definitely would then. And a car (a Maybach, or some other nice one).

If you have a Maybach, you don't drive it, you are driven in it ;)

[1macker1]

more lottery tickets

[coopdog]

Have sex with the Olsen twins, in my private jet along with my all my new bikes with tons of cristal.

Two chicks at the same time, I think a millionaire could hook something like that up. -Office Space

[coopdog]

Originally posted by 1macker1
more lottery tickets

hahah

[iGav]

dinner with Piper Perabo... + a Raleigh Vektar.... :D

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by coopdog
Have sex with the Olsen twins, in my private jet along with my all my new bikes with tons of cristal.

Two chicks at the same time, I think a millionaire could hook something like that up. -Office Space

hahahahah. and they are almost legal now! whoo!

pivo- by "charities" you do mean "PPP"....

[SiliconAddict]

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Hire someone to do a search for any outstanding debts I may have and pay them off.
$10,000

Get all my friends who are in debt, in financial difficulties, or just having a run of bad luck out of the hole. $500,000-1,000,000

Set my mom up so she doesn’t have to work another day in her life. $2,000,000

Buy about 100-200 acres of forest in northern Minnesota. Maybe lakeshore property. Mmmm think of the paintball possibilities??! and NO freaking noise from traffic. Blissful.
$3,000,000 (Absolutely NO clue how much land is up there. More? Less?)

Build a nice log cabin up there. $700,000 (Again no idea how much a good LC costs. If its less I'd take the $$$$$ and get a little house here in the Minneapolis twin cities area.)

Have fiber laid into the place with a T1 connection that I'd pay upfront for 10 years worth. $200,000

Build a minitheatre in the cabin. 100" screen, theatre seating, THX-EX sound. $500,000

Build an all fiber home network with a home server that has RAID 5 and 1TB of storage space. $150,000

Gaming hall. Wood floors, rock walls and wooden ceilings. About 80 computers setup for LAN/WAN gaming with a big screen projector that displays the gaming stats. The systems would be upgraded to the latest and greatest every 3 years. $240,000

Buy every DVD movie on this planet, buy every Music CD on this planet and hire someone to rip them all to my server and catalog them. $1,000,000

Three new cars. Toyota Prius, Touareg (Hey being up north I would have a legit reason for owning an SUV.), and an Aston Martin Vanquish. Mmmmm V12 goodness.
$ 375000

Get about 2 million in honest to god gold and have it sealed under the house in concrete blocks prior to construction with a few bars hidden somewhere else. Think geocaching way the hell out in the boonies in the Boundary waters. (Currency, governments, and regimes come and go but gold is forever.)

Donate 10 million to Apple with the express intention that I get the latest and greatest of ANY hardware they come out with. :p

15 million to save the tigers fund.

40 million for preserving the rainforest.
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The aprox 24 million left would be invested with the profits going to everyday living (Food, bills, clothing, gas, etc.) and any leftovers going to various charities. 1 million in any case would be donated to charities each year even if I had to delve into that remaining 24 million. If for some reason in 20+ years I’m down to something like 2 million I’ll save that amount for myself and stop donations. But really. If 24 million was in the right hands it could generate a whole heck of a lot of cash.
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Aww hell with that! I’ll spend all 100,000,000 to start up my own evil organization called SPECTRE. Wait a minute. We already have one of those in the US. Its called the Republican party. Do you think they would mind a newcomer? ;) Just kidding.
:D

[TimDaddy]

1. Prepaid college tuition for my 2 children and my neice. (Her mother doesn't care about her future, someone should.)

2. 2,000-4,000 sq ft. house, with the garage tucked neatly around back and in the basement. No snout! And of course, fully automated with as much Mac as possible.

3. 2005 Lexus RX hybrid. Satisfy my like of SUVs while still keeping the fuel economy that my Echo and Corolla have gotten me used to.

At some point I would try and start my own charity. I disliked homeless people until my recent trip to Chicago. They are not all bums. I actualy took one homeless man to McD's for lunch. Spent a couple of hours talking to him. Great guy, made some bad decisions in is life. I met several more, and most of the homeless people I met were good people. I'd like to start a program to help the ones who want to be helped. Get them a temporary home, some clean clothes, some education, and help them find a job.

[g30ffr3y]

1. not to copy, but i would build a "sick" house as well, but still in my general area of town... no sense in really moving since i will now have people to do my snow removal and landscaping...

2. id get a bmw suv for the winter and a tricked out three series convertable for the summer.

3. id buy every current mac maxed out including x-raid to keep things in order...

4. outfit my ridiculous house with ridiculous entertainment equipment...

5. set up my friends and family with macs and cars and cash...

6. get and stay messed up on whatever til it gets boring...

7. go back to school just for the fun of learning new things...

8. DO EVERYTHING I WANT!!!

[Angelus]

First i'd get a maxed out top of the range dual g5 with 23" cinema display. After that id get an Aston Martin Vanquish(closely followed by driving lessons)

[jefhatfield]

ask me on different days and depending on my mood, i would do different things...heck, with one hundred million i could afford it and get all my wishes

secondly, thirdly, etc, i would like to fix up my house, fix up cars, help friends, help my community, help the world, finish graduate school, maybe buy some shoes, etc

but this thread asked what i would do first

i hate debt and i would pay off my credit card and my radio shack card and cut up both cards as my first action...i would also do that if i won only one hundred thousand dollars or even five thousand dollars

[Foucault]

If I won a million dollars, I would do two chicks at the same time.

[iJon]

i would buy thailand and then a pimped out jeep liberty to run my thailand empire.

iJon

[mactastic]

I think that would be your Thai Empire.:p

Like how it's not called Thailand food.

[iJon]

Originally posted by mactastic
I think that would be your Thai Empire.:p

Like how it's not called Thailand food.
well when im the god damn emperor it will be thailand empire, geez. :D

iJon

[revenuee]

Assuming - 100.000.000$

First - i'd "donate" some money to my University to "boost" my marks a little :D Take one year off, and switch to Part Time when i come back.

The reason for the time off is to do my second thing

Second - Buy 7 different high performance Skis used for different ski conditions and locations, (Straight Cut for moguls, Super Fats for Deep Powder, Twin Tip for the Parks, ect.) Along with a one Year vacations traveling to different ski locations around the world, all year long.

Including Skiing in Antarctica

Third, as i'm away for the year - Start building my pyramid dream house - with extremely large garage at the bottom, with an elevator to the second floor where the living quarters will be.
Set up a computer system controlling and maintaining ever aspect of my home (think Tomb Raider)

Set up a Mac Editing Sweet with several Dual 2 Ghz G5, 8 GIG ram, running dual 23" displays Clustered Together, with HD cards installed... All wired to a wall Of Sony 42 inch Plasma Wega TV's, and Dinon Surround Sound Stereo System.

Build an arsenal of photographic and video equipment

F5 and DH1 from Nikon, with a full array of lenses and filters

XL1 from Canon, with an array of Canon Lenses awell as a Panasonic 24p digital camera

and off-course classic film cameras with Panavision lenses

and arsenal of lights and mic systems

Furnish the home with comfortable lounge style chairs, huge kitchen with restaurant style Ranges, Ovens, Sub Zero Freezes and Fridges


Fourth- A Mercedes SLR, or Porsche 911 Turbo (probably the latter)

Fifth - A Mercedes ML 55 AMG, or Rangerover 4.0

In each car i would have a 12" powerbook wired monitoring all vital controls in the car, as well as GPS, also i would have a Satellite Broadband connection for communication purposes in each car

Sixth - Ducati 999R Testastretta

7Th - Seadoo GTX 4-TEC

Finally after what i estimate to have been possibly 10 - 20 million dollars just blown,

Next i would take 25 million ( i think this would be enough, if more needed so be it)

Set up various trust funds for my older family to ensure that they live well and not have to worry about money, as well as set up trust funds for my younger cousins, and my cousins kids to ensure that they have the necessary funds to go through college university.

this should leave me with about 40 - 50 million which i would place into a nice savings account, with a small but constant 2% annual growth, which will give me 1 million a year to live off of, from which i would pay probably half in taxes (damn Canada) leaving me with about 500.000$ to live off of annually -

pick a charity and annually donate some % to that charity (tax benefits for me won't hurt eaither)


What i would do next ... Finish School, take my time since i won't have to rush to make money, get one degree, try for a masters, then try for a Ph.D

As i spend my time in school, i would like to produce and work on various independent film and photography projects, And once i'm done school concentrate my time creating films more full time.

DARE I DREAM ... LOL

[macfreek57]

I'd get my self a car (finally) and macs (one desktop and laptop a year) to be fully loaded and lots of accessories/software. Then i'd go to college wherever I wanted (probably stanford). I'd live my life normally and try to get a good job and raise a family. my (private) high school could use a few donations because i love the place so much.
I might take a lot of cruises in the carribean, too.

[scem0]

A new computer, a new car, and a hell of a lot of ramen ;):D:D.

scem0

[evoluzione]

Originally posted by Foucault
If I won a million dollars, I would do two chicks at the same time.



i hope that was sarcastic....
you shouldn't need any money for that :rolleyes:

[iJon]

Originally posted by evoluzione
i hope that was sarcastic....
you shouldn't need any money for that :rolleyes:
well i helps when you are looking for some hot ass gold diggers.

iJon

[revenuee]

Originally posted by iJon
well i helps when you are looking for some hot ass gold diggers.

iJon

Nah, they wouldn't waste their time for a measly 1 mill ... LOL

[Daveman Deluxe]

I'd buy myself a house, then buy my parents a new custom-built home.

I would buy a completely tricked-out G5 system and the baddest video cameras and equipment money can buy.

I'd buy my dad his dream car, then I'd buy myself a new convertible. Black, 'cause I'm blonde.

Pay for college, pay for my sister's college education...

Give away a bunch of money to my friends, making them all millionaires, give a bunch of money to my church and worthy charities.

Keep about $20M in the bank and live off the interest. I'd keep working, even though I wouldn't need it. All of my paychecks would probably go straight to charities.

[x86isslow]

i'd buy a mac for each of the folks on the admissions committee at UChicago, so in their delight at having a working computer, they'd give me a seat... whats the american term.... admission to the college. :D :D

then i'd buy my parents a nice house somewhere warm.. more like india :) and less like new england.

and of course i'd stock up on whatever the top of the line macs are (after the stevenote:cool: )

and with the leftover, i'd try and convert my fellow indianz.. many of whom are comp programmers(PC diehards) to the mac platform:rolleyes:

[SiliconAddict]

SCO opens new Front in Linux War (http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5132215.html?tag=nefd_top)


Scratch my previous wish. I'd buy out SCO and then immediately trash the company into the ground with the final act being detonating their corp HQ with a huge block party with all nix fans being invited. With the other 99,000,000 :p ;) I would help all the employees, other then the execs, find new jobs. Death to SCO!!!

[Roger1]

The first thing I would do is to set up trust funds for all my nieces and nephews, so their college is paid for (maybe a little extra :) ). I would also set up trust funds for my brother, sister and parents, then set up the same accounts for my wife's family.

After that, I would donate a large chunk to my church as they are needing a new building.

Then the usual various charities.
Then I would fix my 1993 Villager, so I don't have to drive my backup vehicle anymore. :D

[TimDaddy]

Originally posted by Foucault
If I won a million dollars, I would do two chicks at the same time.

I only needed a wife, an ex-girlfriend, and about $18 in liquor. The memories are priceless!

[krossfyter]

Originally posted by Foucault
If I won a million dollars, I would do two chicks at the same time.

am i the only one that got the office space reference?

[revenuee]

Originally posted by krossfyter
am i the only one that got the office space reference?

OFFICE SPACE ... thats the movie ... i knew i heard it somewhere ... just not where ... LOL

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by jefhatfield
ask me on different days and depending on my mood, i would do different things...heck, with one hundred million i could afford it and get all my wishes

secondly, thirdly, etc, i would like to fix up my house, fix up cars, help friends, help my community, help the world, finish graduate school, maybe buy some shoes, etc

but this thread asked what i would do first

i hate debt and i would pay off my credit card and my radio shack card and cut up both cards as my first action...i would also do that if i won only one hundred thousand dollars or even five thousand dollars

ok, people are putting second, third, and fourth things down the line, so i will indulge in this fun game

2) donate money to the local meals on wheels, suicide prevention, 12 step programs, and AIDS organizations of which one is secular and the other is christian and have the two organizations stop bickering over philosophy and funding...1 million dollars each for total of 10 million dollars *tab is at 10,003,900 dollars

3) donate money to help fight breast cancer and other cancers worldwide...1 million dollars for 10 different cancers for total of 10 million dollars *tab is at 20,003,900 dollars

4) donate money to environmental organizations...1 million dollars for local organization and 1 million for an organization for stopping pollution in the third world for total of 2 million dollars *tab is at 22,003,900 dollars

5) donate money to my local junior college, the jc i went to down south, and donate to the three universities i went to...1 million dollars each for a total of 5 million dollars...have money go to scholarship students or any major who are low and middle income and have money go to students who want to study majors that won't pay them much in the real world so they won't be strapped with debilitating loans long after graduation *tab is at 27,003,900 dollars

6) make repairs on my parent's house for a total of 100k *tab is at 27,103,900 dollars

7) buy a proper storefront for my brother's travel business...500k *tab is at 27,603,900 dollars

8) make repairs on my brother's house...100k *tab is at 27,703,900 dollars

9) buy a proper storefront for my computer business and outfit it with proper workstations and testing gear and have the computers that operate in the store all be macs...emacs, 12" inch powerbooks, and 12" inch ibooks in the offices and shop and a 15, 17, and 20" inch imac out front where the general public can see it and say, "wow, now that's a really cool computer....for basic office tasks to run a business, i would still not find a real justification for a computer as insanely great and powerful as a G5 but i would buy a dual 2 ghz one for my wife so she could run her graphics business from home (which is a part of the computer business)...i would be a mac evangelist...500k *tab is at 28,203,900 dollars

10) fix a few windows in my house and re-pave the driveway...10k *tab is at 28,213,900 dollars

11) buy myself two more pairs of rockports and buy good rockport shoes for all my relatives and friends and their friends and homeless on the street and people who have never tried these great shoes...basically i would be a one man rockport camparign..10k *tab is at 28,223,900 dollars

12) finish up graduate school at either NYU or the local UC and leave money for any relatives that want to go to college and/or graduate school, but if they want money for businesses, cars, vacations, computers, clothes...then that's ok, too...several million dollars leaving the final tab at somewhere between 35 and 40 million dollars and the over 60 million dollars left will go into investments and trusts which will keep all the things i listed going on for as long as they need to

but then again, with taxes, that leaves me somewhere under 60 million dollars total if i won 100 million from the lottery after taxes so the leftover money after my list will actually be in the ballpark 20 million but investments and trusts will still make the items on the list work really well

[dbauer]

The first thing I would do i purchase an eMac for every pupil in the elementary school near my house. Brainwash them while they're young!

[Mr. Anderson]

Build a rocket ship and be the first to land on Mars........;)

Actually, I'd still do animation - only thing is I'd have the money to have my own renderfarm.....

D

[Geetar]

After my favourite charities (which I'm sad to say are _many_ here in Moscow, where my wife's family live), I'd consider buying every 1958-1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard (under 8.75 lbs) on the market that doesn't play like a bag of spanners.

After that, I'd build the house I've always dreamed of, somewhere near Washington D.C. ...a neo-Classical mansion that would stand comparison with the best of Nash's work in the UK, with landscaping to rival Capability Brown's Chatsworth. Then I'd give it to the Nation (the USA) with the proviso (and a huge brass plaque in the Folly in the garden to re-state this) that they actually "use" rather than "abuse" the "Special Relationship" with us Brits......

[revenuee]

Originally posted by Mr. Anderson
Build a rocket ship and be the first to land on Mars........;)


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Not for 100,000,000 you wouldn't ... LOL, maybe 100,000,000 would get you a spot in the shuttle :)

you could get an F22 for about 60 - 70 mill and have a lot of fun ... LOL

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by revenuee
Not for 100,000,000 you wouldn't ... LOL, maybe 100,000,000 would get you a spot in the shuttle :)

you could get an F22 for about 60 - 70 mill and have a lot of fun ... LOL

F-22s are very nice, but outside of joining the air force for a seven year officer's hitch, there is no practical way one could learn to fly such an amazingly sophisticated military jet...but larry ellison somehow bought the coolest jet at the time, an F-16, and he flies that thing so maybe his great wealth helped him get the training without having to quite oracle and join the air force for 200,000 times less money :p

[revenuee]

Originally posted by jefhatfield
F-22s are very nice, but outside of joining the air force for a seven year officer's hitch, there is no practical way one could learn to fly such an amazingly sophisticated military jet...but larry ellison somehow bought the coolest jet at the time, an F-16, and he flies that thing so maybe his great wealth helped him get the training without having to quite oracle and join the air force for 200,000 times less money :p

if there is a will (and financial backing) there is a way

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by revenuee
if there is a will (and financial backing) there is a way

i love airplanes but i would take a much more slower approach and buy a world war II era P-51 mustang and join the local navy flyer's club which uses all types of world war II vintage aircraft and is open for membership to the general public

even if you don't own a plane, you can still fly and join the club and they will take a non flying person and make them into a pilot for a very low cost...donations are what mainly keep this non profit organization alive and a lot of the old timers here, which is most everybody in the golf retirement area where i live, love those old navy and army air force airplanes and biplane trainers of yesteryear

[revenuee]

Thats awesome ... i gotta friend who's in a three year training program

he has his licenses ... but he's training to be more commercial

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by revenuee
Thats awesome ... i gotta friend who's in a three year training program

he has his licenses ... but he's training to be more commercial

when i was a kid, i loved military airplanes and navy ships

but then i realized i get motion sickness so that rules me out...when i finished college, the economy was not quite up and running well yet so the jobs were scarce outside of minimum wage work in the tourist/retirement area where i live so i thought about joining the navy as a supply officer and they were desperate, too and offered a direct commission of an 0-2 to entice people for this job which the navy was dangerously in short supply of...forgive the pun...he he...and they told me that if i get seasick, i would never have to do work on a ship, either and that they have plenty of work for land based warehouse and personnel work in the the supply department

he he...somehow i did not believe them and i took an uncle sam job but on the civilian sector doing the same thing for the same pay...and i didn't have to go on any stoopid, rocking ship:p

[wdlove]

The first thing that I would do is to donate to my Church.

I have work that needs to be done on my house. Pay off the Home Equity.
Purchase a Power Mac G5 and Cinema Display this year.

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by wdlove
The first thing that I would do is to donate to my Church.

I have work that needs to be done on my house. Pay off the Home Equity.
Purchase a Power Mac G5 and Cinema Display this year.

definitely the church

besides the christian AIDS organization i mentioned, i would also like to give to calvary chapel non denominational church, jews for jesus, the local catholic mission, intervarsity christian fellowship, the nazarene church where i went to school, campus crusade for christ, the navigators, the local presbyterian church, the bible church where i went to college, the presbyterian church where i went to college, the mayflower presbyterian church in my town, the unity church in my town, the first church of christ in my town, and the first chuch i went to, the methodist church

even though these churches all have widely different ways to worship and different political views, they all have the same basic religious mission so they all deserve money from me

i think that's all the churches and religious organizations i have been to and/or are highly recommended to me

i also strongly believe in the non denomination, non church affiliated 12 step programs which have brought god into people's lives and transformed broken people into spiritual, fulfilled beings through love

[Nermal]

I just realised what was missing out of my Christmas stocking this year - the scratch-and-win ticket! I won $2 last year :D

[Sun Baked]

$315M Lottery Winner Shuns Attention
By GAVIN McCORMICK
Associated Press Writer

ST. ALBANS, W.Va. (AP) -- The letters never stop. Requests, pleas, hard-luck stories, tales to break your heart: thousands of them, enough to fill hip-high filing cabinets that line three conference-room walls in Andrew "Jack" Whittaker's new office.

They come by the dozens, day after day, though it has been a year since Whittaker won the richest undivided lottery jackpot in U.S. history - $314.9 million, payable in an after-tax lump sum of $113 million - in a Christmas Day drawing.

"I can't even read them," the 56-year-old Whittaker said. "I wouldn't have any money left if I did."

The visitors keep coming, too. Two to four a day - from as far away as Washington and Idaho - bringing tales of woe to the Scott Depot house Whittaker still owns, ringing the bell still answered by his wife, Jewell.

Tell the world you have $113 million, and that you're willing to give part of it away, and the world will beat a path to your door.

"If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it," said Whittaker, a sewer and water contractor who built a multimillion-dollar business well before he won the jackpot. "I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet."...

...In many ways Whittaker is the same unpretentious, no-nonsense, cowboy-hat-wearing guy he was before he hit the jackpot. But his natural openness is tempered by a certain wariness. Security guards now watch his home and office, and last week an assistant videotaped and audiotaped an interview in which he said he regretted the toll fame has taken on his family...

delete to end (http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/J/JACKPOT_WINNER?SITE=KTVK&TEMPLATE=LATESTNATIONAL.html)So have your fun, move into the flashy house, drive the gold plated vehicle, and wear the riches on your body.

There is somebody that'll be waiting to take it from you. ;)

[zach]

Hmm.. Copy all of SiliconAddict's tech stuff.. :)

Scratch that, I'll buy Bill Gates' house and burn it.

Hehehehehe... Oh yea, and donate a lot to charity. With the approximately 18.73 i have left, I'd buy a lot of Pocky. Pocky is a really good kind of candy. :D

[rhpenguin]

A bag of pretzels, a hotdog and some beer.

Slumming it works for me.