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Originally posted by xantom:

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:

me too. LOL

1st would be to tell not 1 person outside of immedate family and set up a non discloser pac and if violated they would be stripped of any monies that have been received or scheluded to receive... Set up family so as to be comfortable..................... drill sgt.

Selfishly:
Pay off al my debt
Buy the rifles I always wanted
By and restore a 78 Pontiac Trans Am, Dodge Power Wagon from the 50s
Buy all the farms for sale in NJ to stop development, I prefer food.
Build a garage put lifts in, CNC mills and lathes, etc.

Unselfishly:
Pay off my churches debt, make a donation there and to St. Judes
Pay of my high school friends debts
Buy a house on the Outer banks so me and my family can enjoy time together.
Buy my kids all new cars they like within reason so they dont kill themselves.
Donate money to the VFWs.

1. Donate a HUGE bunch to our regional air ambulance - a full-time/no government-assisted charity.

2. Donate a large amount to our little local railway, so that they could have a new clubhouse and infrastructure.

3. Buy a couple of cars that I WANT, rather than one that I NEED.

4. Set up our severely-disabled daughter and her equably-disabled-but-ambulant f*ckwit husband in their own home with 24/7/365 care to take some of the load off us. We both love her dearly, but forty years of pushing a wheelchair around - and we are both nearly eighty now - is getting pretty tiring.

We need a little bit of life for ourselves before it finally runs out.

Selfishly:

-Get the best doctors/researchers in the world working with my wife who may or may not have lupis or some other weird auto immune disease that no one can seem to figure out or agree on
-Buy a newer car (my newest car is 18 years old)
-Buy land

Unslelfishly:
-Get my cousin the dental work she needs (to the tune of 75-100k)


Now if I had "FU AND the horse you rode in" on money
-All debt of immediate family would be wiped out (one time offer though, not that I expect it to be an issue)
-Setup a trust for the nieces and nephews that they won't know about until well into adulthood.

I call it lottery fantasy. My wife and I have discussed winning the lottery.

There are two scenarios, both allocate 10% of winnings to a fund to help our community. The local food bank is well run and would benefit. The local animal rescue would as well. Other organizations like crisis centers, a local botanical garden and my sportsman's club would receive support.

Selfishly. I would buy/build a workshop/garage and have a small fleet of cars and motorcycles. I would also buy a house in the Laurel Highlands.

If it was big F money: In addition to the above we don't have children but we do have 15 nieces and nephews that would get a boost at mid-life.

Ocean front home in Daytona for the winter. Pay off all my families mortgages. And anyone that I really didn't like (no one comes to mind) I'd buy the property next to them and turn it into a rental.

I'm thinking big eff you money would at least be in the hundreds of millions. So based on that my list is this;
Help family members
Start several funds for helping people pay for dental and medical procedures
Help with privately funded orphanages

Now for the selfish things;
A car collection that rivals Jay Leno's
A museum worthy collection of military and old west firearms.
A collection ancient swords and weapons
Several bespoke English best shotguns
A collection of vintage and interesting guitars
A celestial observatory
A race track for full size cars
Thousands of acres of land

After all of that there should be enough left for some fine cigars, whiskey, and of course, hookers and cocaine

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Originally posted by architect:
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?

A lot of truth in that. Due to past roles in oil & gas projects, I've actually spent hundreds of millions in a year so to me FU money would be over a billion.

What’s thr dollar amount of FU money ? A billion in cash net of taxes ? 100million ? 20mm probably couldn’t do all the below but I’d still be very comfortable and give away significant amounts.

Depending on this answer,
Payoff mine and immediate family members mortgages
Payoff nephews student loans
Be like Oprah with new cars for a bunch of close friends.

Very quietly set up a bland named foundation to give scholarships for kids in my county to college as well as trade schools. Give anonymously if possible to many of the churches and other underfunded non profits in my area.

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Originally posted by architect:
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 know this sound weird but I wouldn't want too much money.

Say you won the lottery> Powerball vs one of the other payouts.

With that much money, could you ever have true privacy?

I would want enough to take care of my families meager needs but not too much that everybody starts coming after you for it.

Side note: Privacy is one reason that I would never want to be the President.

I've said it here before:

I'd buy a giant ranch (thousands of acres) hire a veterinary staff, as well as caretaker staff.

Then I'd set out to bring in EVERY unwanted/unloved dog in the US, and give them proper care, feeding, training, and love.

Eventually I'd branch out to other animals in need.

Invest and live off the dividends and be charitable with what I don't need. I enjoy material things but no longer put the importance on them that I once did, can't take it with you.

Anything over $100M would be a burden. So everything above that gets given to good causes.

Unselfishly:
1) I favor helping people and animals locally. Ronald McDonald house, animal shelters, etc.
2) Buy some land to preserve open space from development.
3) Set my kids and grandkids up with trusts that should be perpetual. I've seen lives ruined by large lump-sum inheritances, so it would be metered out after people meet some requirements (age 26, financially self-supporting, supporting any children they have, married to the mother/father of their children, etc).


Selfishly:
1) Hire out all the landscaping care
2) Host one or two large family vacations each year. While it would be selfish for me, it also would be intended to expose the younger generations to various different locations so they have some perspective on America.

"Hypothetically... what would you do if you came into big money?"



Faint!

I haven't answered that question in a long time. I used to talk about that with a co-worker. I decided I wasn't going to stay at work, be a pain in the ass, and dare them to fire me on threat of being sued.

Yeah, I was vindictive.

Post a thread on a gun forum looking for ideas.

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Hypothetically... what would you do if you came into big money?

Finally buy a Browning Hi-Power, which has been my dream gun for about 20 years.

Oh man. I’ve thought about this a few times, like whenever the Powerball gets up to eleventy billion dollars or whatever.

Selfishly: buy a 90’s model 4wd Tacoma, buy a decent size house with some land (gun range included), buy a few guns, build a pickleball court and have a select group of people to play with, go on a trip of some kind.

Unselfishly: take my parents and in-laws on a nice trip and make sure they don’t have to worry about retirement, donate a chunk to my church, donate to a children’s home I visited in Honduras this summer, donate to some other Christian charities, pay off mortgages for random people, fund church plants and missionaries.


I’d do my best to fly as far under the radar as possible.

I'm with you cooger:

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Selfishly: buy a 90’s model 4wd Tacoma, buy a decent size house with some land (gun range included), buy a few guns, build a pickleball court and have a select group of people to play with, go on a trip of some kind.

The old Tacomas and 4Runners are cool.
I wouldn't go crazy with mansions, yachts, or lifestyle. I do like boats though so I'd probably get another boat, but nothing big.