You're rich? Now what?

[Commander Quan]

Let’s say you win the intergalactic lottery, and now you’re rich, not just like “Yea, I won a million dollars!” rich, more like “Daddy Warbucks or Scrooge McDuck rich. Of course you’re going to take care of your family, set up a trust fund for the next 6 generations of your offspring, and hire the Rolling Stones to play at your “retirement party” but then what? How are you going to live the lifestyle of an eccentric Super Multi Billionaire?

I’ve done a little thinking and I think I know what I would do.

1. Buy a 7 day set of McLaren F1s, and make sure that I get both of Ralph Lauren’s
2. Procure a warehouse full of pipe tobacco
3. Charter a C-130 to fly to Havana and come back filled with cigars and Havana Club rum
4. Buy a very large patch of land in Texas, so Ted Nugget and I can get drunk and shoot propane tanks
5. Have a fresh box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch every morning, so I can dump out all but the last bowl that has the extra cinnamon and sugar.
6. Hire a personal mime artist to represent me in court when I go to fight all the speeding tickets I get with #1

What would you do?

[JE3146]

After taking care of all immediate family, I'd probably give half of it to the ADA (American Diabetes Association) and then buy a plot of land, build a house, and become a fulltime hobbyist in any of my dozen+ hobbies.

[Razorhog]

1. New house with more room (walk in humidor for me and dark room for the wife)
2. Leer Jet and personal 24x7 pilot.
3. I agree, probably go with the McClaren F1.
4. Smoke fancy premium cigars - Anejos, Opus X, Padron 64th, etc.
5. Have someone run a philanthropy foundation in my name.
6. Have fun!

[T.G]

Buy china.

Then kick everyone out.

[marge796]

I would do whatever felt right for the moment. With some exceptions of course :D.


Chris.....

[hotreds]

Ain't gonna happen, so why torture myself?!

[marge796]

You never know? I tell myself every Wednesday & Saturday this is the big day, that is, if I remmebered to buy my lottery ticket.


:r


Chris.....

[ade06]

Charter a jet and take the boys to Vegas (the wives can come too)!!!
Buy a yacht so that I can bum around the Caribbean during the winters.
Buy several homes around the world for our travels.
After a couple of years of living the "Trust fund" life.
Set-up a non-profit and devote a good portion of my time doing philanthropic work (the rest of the time I would be playing golf and traveling).

[DMK]

1- Payoff anthing owed to anyone.
2- Jump on a plane and get the F#$% out of dodge until the next big winner claims the fame and spotlight...:r
3- Buy a few acres, build what I 'really' want, fence it with a double row to allow a dog run around the property...
4- Live in peace.:rolleyes:

[68TriShield]

Flip off my Brothers(no not you guys)and drive out the gate.
The rest is pure gravy... :tu

[ade06]

1- Payoff anthing owed to anyone.
2- Jump on a plane and get the F#$% out of dodge until the next big winner claims the fame and spotlight...:r
3- Buy a few acres, build what I 'really' want, fence it with a double row to allow a dog run around the property...
4- Live in peace.:rolleyes:

I would set-up a trust and claim the winnings under the trust, which would minimize how many people would know I hit the lotto.

[ChicagoWhiteSox]

One thing I know, I would own and smoke as many habanos as I could(all vintage):D I would drink Dom P like its going out of style:r

[rack04]

I would pay off all outstanding debt and buy a Mr. Cluck's Chicken Shack. :r

[Skywalker]

Throw a big herf and fly each and everyone of you to it!!!

I hope you like Sierra Nevada beer because I'm buying the brewery!!!

We'll herf right inside the brewery... because it's my brewery!!!:tu

[The EVP]

After friends and family are taken care of:

1) Buy Puff.com and fire Jon Caputo's ass
2) Buy a winter home in the Florida Keys on the beach along with a Yatch to put around in.
3) Pay Jimmy Buffett to play the house warming party for #2
4) Buy 4 Ferrari's...one for each direction.
5) Buy a summer home in the Hamptons
6) Pay U2 to play the housewarming for #5 (for my wife)
7) Buy a spare house in Western Ireland right outside of Doolin
8) Set up a scholarship fund at my old HS
9) Give my church $1 million so they don't have to worry about anything anymore.
10) Hire Hubert Keller as my personal chef
11) Send my company laptop back to the company via private jet and limo from the airport to the building with wallpaper that says, "I Quit!" on it.
12) Travel the world and see everything I wanted to see.
13) Underwite worthwhile charities that help end world hunger, animal abuse and the Wounded Warrior program....gotta take care of the troops.
14) Open a cigar shop just so I have something to do with spare time and stock it with nothing but high-end sticks (Davidoff, Opus, Dunhill, Fuente, Tatuaje, Illusione, etc...)
15) Buy the NY Islanders just to make sure they NEVER leave Long Island
16) Take care of my BOTL's and SOTL with a couple boxes each of their favorite cigars.

[Cigary]

Who hasn't daydreamed about this? I've read of so many people upon winning lotteries whose life went to **** because of their winning a ton of money. I'd never let anyone know I won anything just so I could keep my anonymity and live my life in a comfortable way. Money changes peoples perception of everything and even family members. Look what happens when people die and there is a will left,,families are destroyed over money and what is supposedly left to others.

The wife and played this out one day and we came to the conclusion that we would do things without others knowing about it...i.e. paying off family mortgages, cars, without them knowing about it. We would of course give 50% to those places that help others,,giving back is what keeps you grounded. We would keep back $1,000,000 for us and spend the rest on making other lives better. There is a ton of things you can do to make life better for those who don't have as much. This would be so much better than buying airplanes, mansions, cars and other things that will never fill the whole in your life.

[0002S]

1. Change my phone number
2. Leave all my belongings as they sit
3. Get a P.O. Box
4. Enjoy life one day at a time

[MajorCaptSilly]

1. Buy Tom (icehog3) some stuff.
2. Go to Eric's (smokin5) house with some high dollar whisky and hire Dave Alvin to perform for us.
3. Make Sklee Day a national holiday
4. Buy and island and call it Sklee island.
5. Hire someone to do my text messaging for me.


MCS

[DrDubzz]

horde expensive things, cure a disease or two, travel everywhere, buy at least one Bugatti Veyron, give the wife her own Amex black card, buy land, lots of it

(assuming all of the stuff in the OP is taken care of)

[blugill]

4. Buy a very large patch of land in Texas, so Ted Nugget and I can get drunk and shoot propane tanks



Uncle Ted doesn't drink:)

[tobii3]

1. Buy Cuba.

2. Retire

3. Not Die

[Commander Quan]

Uncle Ted doesn't drink:)

yeah I know, but we're pretending here remember

[blugill]

Who hasn't daydreamed about this? I've read of so many people upon winning lotteries whose life went to **** because of their winning a ton of money. I'd never let anyone know I won anything just so I could keep my anonymity and live my life in a comfortable way. Money changes peoples perception of everything and even family members. Look what happens when people die and there is a will left,,families are destroyed over money and what is supposedly left to others.

The wife and played this out one day and we came to the conclusion that we would do things without others knowing about it...i.e. paying off family mortgages, cars, without them knowing about it. We would of course give 50% to those places that help others,,giving back is what keeps you grounded. We would keep back $1,000,000 for us and spend the rest on making other lives better. There is a ton of things you can do to make life better for those who don't have as much. This would be so much better than buying airplanes, mansions, cars and other things that will never fill the whole in your life.

:tpd:
+1

[replicant_argent]

Welcome To Fantasy Island..... I am Mr. Locke, your Host.





Nuff said.

[Blueface]

Let’s say you win the intergalactic lottery, and now you’re rich, not just like “Yea, I won a million dollars!” rich, more like “Daddy Warbucks or Scrooge McDuck rich. Of course you’re going to take care of your family, set up a trust fund for the next 6 generations of your offspring, and hire the Rolling Stones to play at your “retirement party” but then what? How are you going to live the lifestyle of an eccentric Super Multi Billionaire?


After the above which is clearly very important, spend the rest of my life traveling the United States, feeding it. After all have had a full stomach and no more hunger for a long time, then focus on the rest of the world.

That should keep me busy until the day I die.

[Mr.Erskine]

Pay all my bills... buy my wife a Dodge Charger, buy a Rolls Royce Phantom drophead Coupe, buy a nice house, and then deposit the rest around the world in interest bearing accounts.

[Commander Quan]

Oh I though of a couple more. I want my hip joints replaced with ball barrings, an air ride suspension to replace the disks in my back, and a by pass valve installed before my stomach, so I can decide what my body will digest and if I decide to fill up on McRibs sandwiches or a pound of foie gras I wouldn't have to worry, about buying new pants every 2 weeks

[Blueface]

1) Buy Puff.com and fire Jon Caputo's ass


:r:r:r

[sikk50]

Buy my way into the white house and fire everyone.
Buy the Budweiser factory and shut it down.
Build a log cabin manson in Colorado and shoot anything that comes within half a mile of my cabin.
Fly all of CA to said cabin where I will have Carlos Fuente and his rolling team making footballs for everyone.

OH! Almost forgot, buy a buffalo and name it skittles...Why? Because I can dammit!

[blugill]

:) It's easy to be philanthropic after you have the means:)

[icehog3]

1. Buy Scott (MajorCaptSilly) some stuff.
2. Pay off all my family's debt.
3. Buy a winter home in the South and a summer home in Chicagoland.
4. Get season tickets for the Blackhawks.
5. Throw the biggest herf imaginable for the Inmates here...on a monthly basis. :)

[Whipper Snapper]

1. Buy Scott (MajorCaptSilly) some stuff.
2. Pay off all my family's debt.
3. Buy a winter home in the South and a summer home in Chicagoland.
4. Get season tickets for the Blackhawks.
5. Throw the biggest herf imaginable for the Inmates here...on a monthly basis. :)

Am I invited to said herf? :r

[icehog3]

Am I invited to said herf? :r

Are you an inmate here? Feel free to answer in the Banter forum so we don't clog this one up. :)

[Commander Quan]

After friends and family are taken care of:

1) Buy Puff.com and fire Jon Caputo's ass


Better yet, buy every company that advertises at Puff and make him go broke.

[JE3146]

1. Buy Cuba.

2. Retire

3. Not Die

You've been completing #3 since the ice age :r

[Smokin Gator]

#1 Give 1/2 of whatever I won to the church I go to and the Florida Baptist Children's Home.
#2 Buy all of the farm back that I grew up on.
#3 Buy a herd of pure bred limousine cattle that would cover the top 3 bloodlines.
#4 Have a monthly herf for all the inmates that would rival the Shack herf.
#5 Work until they day I day enjoying what I do now.

[junkinduck]

After I help church, family, friends, and do all the usual
#1 quit work, not cause I don't like it but I just wouldn't have time for it
#2 Finish my house before I am 40
#3 buy a Barret .50 BMG
#4 build a tall fence
#5 buy CAT equipment just to tear up my yard and put it back, you know bull dozers and stuff
#6 Try to stay common and not forget.

[gettysburgfreak]

1. Give a cut to my parents and sister
2. Donate some to charity
3. Buy one of every Ferrari ever made
3. Buy every watch over 40 grand
4. Build a walk in humidor stocked with CCs
5. Buy every Civil War book made
6. Buy tons of Civil War relics
7. Go to Vegas, throw down a mill on Red then hit the strip clubs and make it rain like Pac Man Jones all while drinking Crystal from the bottle.

[Silound]

Pay off my debt, but myself a moderate sized house on a decent amount of land (read 3000sqf on 5-10 acres), put enough away to pay all my major expenses for life, and donate the rest to someplace.

Then I'd continue working part time or at whatever job I really enjoy.

[MedicCook]

I would probably blow all the money on cigars, hookers & booze. :r

[icehog3]

I would probably blow all the money on cigars, hookers & booze. :r

Don't forget some Crystal Meth to keeps the hookers happy. ;)

[MedicCook]

Don't forget some Crystal Meth to keeps the hookers happy. ;)

Why do I care if they are happy? I am a bazzillionaire, I got money for a new one every couple of hours. Spitzer will be asking me for referrals. :D

[icehog3]

Why do I care if they are happy? I am a bazzillionaire, I got money for a new one every couple of hours. Spitzer will be asking me for referrals. :D

Touche' :r

[Skywalker]

OH! Almost forgot, buy a buffalo and name it skittles...Why? Because I can dammit!

:r:r:r

[Kreth]

House (with tricked out man cave), nice cars, trust funds. A few sizable anonymous donations to charity. Then I go on a permanent golf vacation, taking time between rounds to indiscriminately bomb the sh1t out of inmates.
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[icehog3]

House (with tricked out man cave), nice cars, trust funds. A few sizable anonymous donations to charity. Then I go on a permanent golf vacation, taking time between rounds to indiscriminately bomb the sh1t out of inmates.
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Why not just have your butler do the bombing, Jeff? :) :r

[Kreth]

Why not just have your butler do the bombing, Jeff? :) :r
I dunno if I could deal with having a butler. It would be weird. A maid sure, cause I hate house cleaning.
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[icehog3]

I dunno if I could deal with having a butler. It would be weird. A maid sure, cause I hate house cleaning.
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A butler could pack and ship your bombs, and also make you some peanut butter sandwiches for the golf course. :)

[Kreth]

A butler could pack and ship your bombs, and also make you some peanut butter sandwiches for the golf course. :)
Clif Bars usually, less mess. Good point about packing and shipping. I'd still need to write up clever notes, and bribe the Postmaster to allow my packages to be sent sans return addy.
Although, if we're talking Bill Gates/Warren Buffet rich, I suppose I could hire couriers to hand deliver bombs. :r
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