[Cyrano]

AH says much of what I feel. I'd pay off the mortgage on this place and the rest of what we owe on The Big Red Gas Hog, help out some friends by doing similar, set up a trust fund for Junior, the usual thing. I might buy a mansion a county north or west of here, if only so we finally had enough space for our stuff, and I'd buy myself an Ercoupe and take flying lessons so I could qualify for the right seat of Captain Squirrel's KingAire.

I'd also set up a little jobs and personal improvement company to work with estate sale operators in my area. The usual deal is for these operators to sell to the bare walls, but often at the end of the sale there's lots of stuff left, especially books, pedestrian furniture, tools and kitchen stuff. What I'd do is buy the residue from the operators for a flat fee, clean it all out into trucks, and take it back to a warehouse for sorting. The books would go to libraries that need books and the troops - I can remember being aboard ships where the library on board was full of garbage like 1930s romances and tatty paperbacks in genres I don't read. Troops out at the sharp end need books too.

The clothing would be sorted and set up for people who need clothes that will get them jobs, and for disaster relief, at token cost to no cost on a case by case basis.

The furniture would be cleaned and repaired and made available for people like battered women trying to start new lives, and men who got skinned in divorces, and recovering addicts and alcoholics trying to turn their lives around. Kitchen and cooking items, and china and flatware, ditto. Just stuff to help people.

[woody1981]

I'd buy the liberal Democrat party and enforce Constitutionalism on them. The success of that project is in direct proportion to my chances of being a lotto winner. Nil.

[DaTeacha]

Even winning the mega buck multi state monster lotto wouldn't quite give you enough to outbid the last guy who bought the NYC mayoral race, but wouldn't it be nice to buy your way into such an office and then undo all those idiotic gun laws in some anti-gun city or state?

Seriously, a monster lotto is so much money that any of those previous posters who say they would pay off the mortage, kids through college, etc. miss the whole size of the thing. Doing all that for your friends and family would still leave enough to make it possible for none of the kids to ever need to actually work for a living. Of course, that's provided you could manage to fend off all the requests from everywhere for you to give them a million or two.

For most people who win the big one, it's a life changing experience, and the change is not something for the good. At least according to what I've heard.

Still, it would be nice to find out first hand. I figure my chances are about as good as anyone here, and I never buy a ticket.

[rondog]

ME win the lotto? I'd buy the nicest motorhome I could find, and then it's Adios Muchachos! I'll be a travelin' fool. Look for the big Winnie with the red Willys tied behind and the Beagles in the windows.

[Sooner Shooter]

Quote:       Originally Posted by rondog

ME win the lotto? I'd buy the nicest motorhome I could find, and then it's Adios Muchachos! I'll be a travelin' fool. Look for the big Winnie with the red Willys tied behind and the Beagles in the windows.

That's probably the wisest thing to do because every charity in the US will be beating down your door. Changing identities might be worth considering too.

[sea_chicken1]

I would start by getting kicked out of the military for winning the lottery. ( it does happen) I would set consult a professional about how much to set aside in what type of account to gain a yearly interest amount that I would like to live off of. The rest I would buy some property in north Idaho and build the a 4,000 sq ft house That has a sound proof music room and a gun room in the basement. I would have to build a shop twice as big as the house with a built in pit, lift and fireplace to do my tinkering in the winter. I have thought about this on occasion.

[gunnut2u]

I like thr RV thing . just start out driving with nowhere to go and all day to get there ! Helping out people you don't know .That would be real cool to do .

[woody1981]

Quote:       Originally Posted by DaTeacha

Even winning the mega buck multi state monster lotto wouldn't quite give you enough to outbid the last guy who bought the NYC mayoral race, but wouldn't it be nice to buy your way into such an office and then undo all those idiotic gun laws in some anti-gun city or state? Seriously, a monster lotto is so much money that any of those previous posters who say they would pay off the mortage, kids through college, etc. miss the whole size of the thing. Doing all that for your friends and family would still leave enough to make it possible for none of the kids to ever need to actually work for a living. Of course, that's provided you could manage to fend off all the requests from everywhere for you to give them a million or two. For most people who win the big one, it's a life changing experience, and the change is not something for the good. At least according to what I've heard. Still, it would be nice to find out first hand. I figure my chances are about as good as anyone here, and I never buy a ticket.

+1, yes it would be fun.

[woody1981]

Quote:       Originally Posted by DaTeacha

Even winning the mega buck multi state monster lotto wouldn't quite give you enough to outbid the last guy who bought the NYC mayoral race, but wouldn't it be nice to buy your way into such an office and then undo all those idiotic gun laws in some anti-gun city or state? Seriously, a monster lotto is so much money that any of those previous posters who say they would pay off the mortage, kids through college, etc. miss the whole size of the thing. Doing all that for your friends and family would still leave enough to make it possible for none of the kids to ever need to actually work for a living. Of course, that's provided you could manage to fend off all the requests from everywhere for you to give them a million or two. For most people who win the big one, it's a life changing experience, and the change is not something for the good. At least according to what I've heard. Still, it would be nice to find out first hand. I figure my chances are about as good as anyone here, and I never buy a ticket.

Yes, there have been numerous bad life-changing circumstances from winning the lottery. Just around here we had a wife steal the ticket, divorce her husband, and then cash it in. Of course, the law judged it to be a commonly held ticket and she had to give up half the money. A fellow just south of here lost all of the money through stupid investments and all of his grandchildren to drugs. Then there is the case of the man from Florida whose wonderful brother took him out on a yacht and attempted to blow it up with the man on it. Well, I'd just rather be regular ole' Woody.

[remman]

Quote:       Originally Posted by TACAV

Id pay of all my college loans and car, buy some cool toys, and get a decent sized house, nothing too big as Its just me, and donate and invest the rest.,,, Oh and have a big G&G BBQ. Your all invited. If I have millions and millions ill buy you all plane tickets lol.

we're gonna hold you to that!!! haha

[DWFan]

A house with land, new truck, new car and a few "splurges", then if enough remained...
buy the manufacturing rights to the Dan Wesson revolver, the Seville single actions and the Automag pistols and open a factory.

[rondog]

Quote:       Originally Posted by remman

we're gonna hold you to that!!! haha

I'll come, if you hire ZZ Top to play at the party!

[MrsS]

My church & St. Jude's would be two very happy places once I got done donating to them...

[LarryO1970]

... after paying off my parents' and my house (in that order) ... some would go to fight for the 2nd Amendment and the rest would go into revolving CD's to live off the interest. Spare time would be helping in a soup kitchen and helping whenever possible to help those less fortunate.

... I'd retire by post card.

.. and make a rather substantive investment in ammo & a few select firearms.

Larry O

[meandkc]

Buy 10,000 acres build homes for all the family set them up in a trust that would never allow them to be sold so they would provide housing for generations . Buy a starter herd of buffalo from the sulpher springs south dakota herd . Set up a trust for sending all future generations of my family through collage . And any money left goes to missions in 3rd world countrys .