Let's daydream....

loves2shop4shoes · December 2013

cu97tiger said:

Round 1
Quit my job
buy a house in Phoenix
buy a house in Richmond
buy new cars (not NEW but new to us)
pay off my sister's house
buy my parents a house (or two... one in Richmond, a condo in Rochester)

Round 2
Pay off my student loans
pay off the credit cards
take a trip to Germany
take a trip to Bora Bora
Start a trust fund for our niece and nephew

Round 3
Start using fertility meds/get IVF
Set aside $ for our aunts, uncles and cousins
Put ~$200 million in the bank so we can live off the interest
Become part of a private jet co-op (we don't need to own our own jet)

Round 4
Pay someone to be my personal shopper and buy a whole new wardrobe
Get a personal trainer
Run a marathon
Do an olympic triathlon
Volunteer at habitat for humanity
Give to/work at charities that encourage girls to dream big

Can I apply for your personal shopper gig?

cu97tiger · December 2013

@hummingbird125 - We are not going to be those suckers that blow through all their money. DH and I discussed tonight that we don't need a 5 million dollar house, that a 1 million dollar house (ok, TWO 1 million dollar houses) will do us just fine.

@loves2shop4shoes - Abso-freaking-lutely!

500days · December 2013

Winning the lottery reminds me of the movie Blank Check. I think I would have a boat load of fun like Preston did, but I would burn through the money if I didn't plan correctly. If I won the lottery I think I would have to move because people around here are crazy. I would definitely put a ton of it in the bank and try to live normally.

FoxandBunny · December 2013

Bf is planning on getting a lottery ticket while he's in Florida (stupid Alabama not selling them!). BF and I actually had a very detailed conversation about this recently, so I'll try my best to remember it.

If he won, the first thing he said he would do is propose and we would get married. We would help our family pay off some of their debts, and then put the rest of the money in the bank. BF had some complicated bank thing he said he would do, but we would essentially live off the interest.

I would finish college with BF paying for it instead of my parents (who are kindly paying for my college so that I'm debt free) and BF would go to college as well seeing how the main thing that's stopping him right now is money. After we finished college, we would travel the world and go where we wanted to go. After that, we would find jobs that we enjoyed and settle down in our dream house.

We decided that we would live as normally as possible and not tell our kids that we had that kind of money. We would of course splurge every now and then, but not extremely. They wouldn't have to worry about paying for college or anything like that, but we wouldn't want them to know that we had that much money. I live in a very affluent area, and I've seen what having that kind of money to fall back on does to people. We would make them have jobs and stuff, and try to raise them to be money conscious and financially smart. They would only find out that we had that money after we had died, and hopefully would be as smart about it as we (hopefully) were.

Also, I would totally make that dream house include land for a horse. It would be a necessity.

ETA: Just found out BF didn't win. Phooey.

KeptInStitches · December 2013

Yeah, BF and I each got a ticket and didn't match any numbers. Ah well.

[Deleted User] · December 2013

There was someone from GA who won...look at that lol. Not far from us either. Anyways, I don't ever buy lottery tickets but H likes to when it gets big like this. If we won:

1. We would invest and earn money off of it.

2. Quit our jobs.

3. Pay off any debt (student loans, car payments, etc..)

4. Volunteer full time and give

5. Put into accounts for future children, family, etc... I would love to have my parents retire early.

labro · December 2013

southernpeach89 said:

There was someone from GA who won...look at that lol. Not far from us either. Anyways, I don't ever buy lottery tickets but H likes to when it gets big like this. If we won:

1. We would invest and earn money off of it.

2. Quit our jobs.

3. Pay off any debt (student loans, car payments, etc..)

4. Volunteer full time and give

5. Put into accounts for future children, family, etc... I would love to have my parents retire early.

AGGHHHHH noooo!!!! Now I'm even more sad that FI forgot to buy tickets.

[Deleted User] · December 2013

@lmhollister -Apparently the winners are in Buckhead...seriously...whoever lives in Buckhead doesn't need to win the Lottery lol unless they are in super amounts of debt because they live in Buckhead.

Pepperally · December 2013

I won five dollars on one of my tickets...hmmm, what shall I do with it...there's just too many possibilities to narrow it down.

KeptInStitches · December 2013

Don't spend it all in one place, @pepperally.

Pepper6 · December 2013

Aside from the obvious (finding appropriate financial management/lawyer, paying off debts, etc):

- quit jobs

- buy vacation homes in Hawaii and France

- give money to family (with financial planner assistance, because lord knows some of them can't manage the money they have now, let alone several million)

- donate a large portion to worthy charities

- do volunteer work when I get bored (I don't want to take a paying job from someone who needs it)

- NOT buy our kids anything they want, I don't want to raise a spoiled asshole just because we got lucky.

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