Storage containers around my entire 130 acres. Stacked two high.

Buy 100 acres or so near a local college ran mechanic/trade school. Buy a diorama of heavy equipment (excavators, dozers, loaders, etc.)
The collection of equipment is used to teach local HS kids how to operate heavy equipment. The school gets funding to teach them to maintain and fix them. Maybe some kind of scholarship for equipment operators and mechanics alike.
Look around for other worthy philanthropic projects in my little town.

Invest enough to keep everyone comfortable for the foreseeable future.
Buy guns and motorcycles from time to time. Maybe a nice watch.
Try to live simply and quiet.
Probably just waste the rest.

This is just what popped into my head.

I don't have the slightest idea. I'd probably spend a year or two traveling. After that, I'd probably travel to impoverished nations nations and try to find random people to help.

Maybe build a dream house, but my dream house to me wouldn't be very impressive. Nice kitchen; outdoor kitchen with smoker/grill; and fun workshop.

I pretty much have all the things I want, except time.

quote:

Originally posted by sigmonkey:

Member DoctorSolo‘s avatar, I think. Who is it?

Pay off my debts . Not a whole lot there but it needs to go . Pay off both kids debts . Warn them that it's a one time deal . Buy or build a house on a lot of acreage that's fairly close to where we are now . We have grandkids and she ain't leaving . Set up trusts for the grandkids education , etc.
Donate to St.Jude and Shriner's Hospital .
Buy a 1967 Mustang " Eleanor " replica .

I would pull the trigger on getting my 2010 F-150’s driver’s seat reupholstered.

I would disappear. When I finished taking care of those I wish, I would do good with the rest. But no one will ever know.

I think about this from time to time.

Selfish: move someplace where I'd like the surroundings and be happy to live for the rest of my life.

Unselfish: children w/o recourse have had a soft spot in my heart. As have pets (abused, abandoned, whatever). Education is also important to me but not with the current school systems. So, I'd like to start some sort of orphanage where kids (limited number - 50?) without a solid adult presence in their lives could come to live and be educated K-12, including sponsorship through college. Open to having the venue near a school that I trusted; could then sponsor more kids instead of educating them. And also where pets could come to live until adopted (never is fine); in the meantime, the kids and the pets could mutually nurture each other.

I'd start a private K-12 school. That has been my (impossible) dream for many decades.

eff you $$$.

Pay off all my siblings' debts and seed a conservatory trust funds so they will never have them ask me for money. Create a STEM scholarship grant for all my siblings' direct decedents (they can pay for their own liberal studies).

The wife would want a spread for an animal sanctuary and travel the world. I would like to have a healthy lifestyle change to enjoy some old and new hobbies of fishing, backpacking, running, cycling and competitive shooting.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
Member DoctorSolo‘s avatar, I think. Who is it?

It's Diedrich Bader, who played the part of Lawrence in the movie Office Space.

Lawrence is known for answering a similar question ("What would you do if you had a million dollars?") with, "two chicks at the same time, bud."

Well I have no debt and already have our forever home in a place we love…

Buy the 150 acre farm next to me to prevent it from being developed.

Invest. Invest. Invest.

Get an attorney
Buy a whole mountain in western NC or Eastern TN
Invite my family to join me at Mount Mike. And live in our commune.
Then I’d invite my two best friends & Mrs. mikes friend to also move in and I’d build them a home.
Then all the kids would get one of the moms to be their home school teacher.

Then I’d pay off these three persons debts w/o saying anything.
Then I I’d drop a pile on the Shriners Hospitals for Children & St Jude.

A lot depends on how much money translates to FU money. I'll assume that most people would think of it as "unlimited funds" (IOW no limitations on how much one could spend). Would it be $100 {m,b,tr}illion?

I will admit that I have fantasized about how much money would effectively be unlimited funds, after a careful accounting it comes out to about $100 trillion. With that, I'd have to:

1) hire/buy a (or several) high-end law firm(s)
2) hire/buy a large accounting firm
3) with the assistance of the above, form a corporation/holding company to manage things
4) allocate the $100 trillion, 50% to invest, 20% to endow a PAC, 20% to endow a charitable entity, 10% to personal lifestyle support
5) found corporations, hire executives to manage each component
6) WRT the $10 trillion lifestyle support portion
6.1) hire a chief of staff
6.2) set up entities to handle:

6.2.1) realty/land holdings
6.2.1.1) homes/estates in various good weather locales (some might be entire islands)
6.2.1.1.1-80) each property would have managers and staff to handle housing, cuisine, wardrobe, maintenance, and grounds as appropriate
6.2.1.2) hunting/recreational properties in various wildernesses

6.2.2) transportation
6.2.2.3) ground transport division
6.2.2.3.1) automotive
6.2.2.3.1.1-30) various hypercars and specialty vehicles
6.2.2.3.1.1-5) super RVs for off-grid living
6.2.2.3.2) ground transport
6.2.2.3.2.1-10) specialty trucks & trailers for hauling stuff to where I want it to be
6.2.2.4) aero division
6.2.2.4.1) air transport
6.2.2.4.1.1-20) executive business jets
6.2.2.4.2.1-10) heavy lift/cargo planes for getting things to where I want them to be
6.2.2.4.2.2) recreational aircraft from ultra-lights to acrobatics
6.2.2.5) marine division
6.2.2.5.1.1-20) yachts and personal transport watercraft
6.2.2.5.2.1-15) bulk/container transports

6.2.3) security division
6.2.3.1) various ground, naval, and aero forces sufficient to protect and preserve corporate assets (and me)
6.2.3.2) to include at least two nuclear-powered carrier groups, planes, submarines, and personnel
6.2.3.3) intelligence assets sufficient to support the above.

Setting it up would consume maybe half the $10 trillion, this would leave an annual income at 4% APR of $200 billion/yr. which should be sufficient.

There's more, but I think you get the idea. Not realistic in the slightest, but I find thinking through the details is an effective way of putting myself to sleep at night. Don't worry, when I receive my windfall, I will be sure to remember SF!

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Originally posted by vthoky:
I wanted to ask, "What would you do if you came into eff you money," but I figured that would run afoul of the subject line rule.

Anyway, the question came up at work today, with a bit of a twist. It became, "If you came into eff you money, what are the first five things you'd do selfishly, and what are the first five things you'd do unselfishly?

Assuming it’s so much money I don’t need to invest and I can just spend…

Selfish

1. Buy a couple really enjoyable cars
2. Buy a couple houses, Florida, Georgia, Washington (Washington for the random vacation with my wife)
3. Buy a few watches that I would really enjoy having
4. Travel around the US to quite a few friends and forum friends that I know and deliver a 365 Legion and a nice watch to them.
5. Buy a few guns.

Selfless acts

1. Buy houses for or payoff mortgages for a my sisters, children, and a few people who have been very helpful or influential in my life.
2. Help many of the less fortunate around here that really could use some help. (Homeless)
3. Setup a lunch program locally. There are far too many kids that don’t eat here when school isn’t in session.
4. Go to the local hospital and start paying off outstanding bills for the less fortunate and elderly. Pay off lots of bills at the Phoenix Children’s Hospital.
5. Something for veterans. Especially ones that served in combat. I’m not exactly sure what, but I know many who would help me find something.

I came to this thread hoping to see Lawrence as one of the responses!

If I have any money left over I'll buy a private island .

I’d probably drop dead of a massive coronary.

Short of that, since it appears we are talking generational wealth, I would set up my grandchildren for generations.

Farm ground for the family, adjoining hunting grounds for myself.

First, I would disappear with Mrs DF and establish a legal entity that kept the public ignorant of our wealth.

There are a few guns I’d buy.

Unselfishly, I’d have the trust buy a 100+ acre ranch somewhere in Texas improve it for 10s of thousands of guests complete with gun ranges, horseback riding/rodeo, gathering pavilions, BBQ/dining facilities, fishing etc. and donate the whole tamale to SIGForum. We could dedicate it to Parabellum and his legacy.

Mrs DF and I don’t need much so most of the remainder would be used for charitable causes.

I'd buy a house for my older son and his wife and kids to live close to us; then give them enough money so they don't have to work and can just spend their time on the family.
Same with my daughter and her husband and kids; and our younger son.
That's all selfish.
Unselfish? Greatly increase donations to Hillsdale College and the Christian charities we support.