I feel Lucky

[valarltd]

So, we have our Powerball tickets, and I'm fantasizing:

1) Drive to Nashville and pick up the money. We'd make a day of it. Probably call friends in the area and take them out to dinner.

2) Pay off all our debt. Every penny from the cable bill to the mortgage.

3) Give notice at the library and the casino.

4) Set up scholarship funds for our 4 kids, our 7 nieces and nephews, and my sister who is trying to get her MBA.

5) Go back to school and study something fun: pop culture, film studies, that sort of thing.

6) Donate heavily to charities. Project Linus, Susan G. Komen institute, Memory Walk, MIFA (Memphis InterFaith Alliance), the Food Bank.

7) Invest. Stocks, bonds, CDs real estate.

8) Design my dream house. 6 bedroom, 3 bath. Huge kitchen, big dining room. Living room, library/computer room, Crafting room/Studio, home theater. Utility room. Playroom. Pantry. Garden. Orchard. Berry bushes.

9) Have it built and move.

Any lessons our kids want to take. Any trips we want to take. Pennsic and Lilies and Diamond Wars. Escapade, Media West, VividCon, ConneXions, Con*Strict

And I'm not even through the first six million yet. What would I do with that amount every year for 20 years? Besides squirrel it away for the day there is no more?

Repeat 6 and 7 as needed.


So, what would YOU do with $6 Million/year for 20 years? Aside from buying a new model of Steve Austin each year, or turning it all into singles and hitting the titty bars?

Comments

[thornsilver]

Move to a quiet place with nice weather. Hawaii maybe? Spend the rest of my life learning stuff and working on a book that will never get published. Hire somebody to do all my housework. Move parents in a nice place somewhere *far* away from me. Relocate relatives still stuck in Ukraine.

[mert-mt-bc.livejournal.com]

1. Pay off house, cars and all bills

2. Buy a historic home and fix it up

3. Pay off parents' and all siblings homes

4. Pay off siblings' school loans and sister's rest of college (War Eagle)

5. Quit my state job and start a private practice

6. Whatever the hell I want

[tiashome.livejournal.com]

Get advice from a lawyer and financial planner, set up a charitable foundation, shower money on my friends and family, and travel the world.

[vysila.livejournal.com]

Aside from indulging myself, family and friends with all sorts of material goodies, I think I'd throw such wealth, along with my energies and whatever abilities I have into grass roots advocacy for gays and women (and especially gay women!)and probably other minorities. Probably children too. This is barely thought out, but is something I feel strongly about - the increasing hostility and backsliding of civil rights, of acceptance of those who are not just like those who wield power in this country. There is increasing disdain for those who suffer poverty, a ridiculous assumption that if only we would get up off our lazy asses and educate ourselves and work that we wouldn't be poor.

I grow angrier and more disappointed in this country every day.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

One of the big things Mudd wants to do is set up a scholarship program-- full ride, room and board, books and all--for kids from the very impoverished school district he teaches in. He sees 2 or 3 a year who could really be something, but they can't afford college.

I would want to start a PAC to get gay women elected to office.


Education and hard work have, in my experience, little to do with getting out of poverty. More often it comes from a lucky break on a job search.

And children's charities are a big thing around here: Project Linus, St. Jude's.