if you won the lottery

parkinsn · #1 02-06-2009, 03:26 PM

Travel to every bank machine i could find and take out $20 and leave the printed receipt in the machine for the next person to see my balance.... All the while my new house and tank are being built.

Flash · #2 02-06-2009, 03:57 PM

take care of family, buy a few properties around the world... take my parents on a vacation... then leave them and travel the world to see my new properties....make a couple donations.... get a big big tank and pay someone to come clean it so all I have to do is look at it! lol! invest a bunch..and then go back to work...OR.. start my own business... goalie equipment and reptiles! lol! great combo!

toxic111 · #3 02-06-2009, 05:03 PM

Depends on how much I won...

If enough, buy a couple airplanes, and fly my family around the world. Spend a couple months in Africa.

If not enough, just the usual, build my house on the farm, buy some cars, and probably still buy myself a small airplane (on floats so I can get to those Northern lakes)

Lydia · #4 02-06-2009, 05:43 PM

I'd immediately print off instructions on how to feed my tanks, hand it to my neighbour, and then pack up my family and fly to Hawaii. While sitting on a beach, we would decide what to do with our winnings....

michika · #5 02-06-2009, 06:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by parkinsn

Travel to every bank machine i could find and take out $20 and leave the printed receipt in the machine for the next person to see my balance.... All the while my new house and tank are being built.

I picked up my tickets this morning!

karazy · #6 02-06-2009, 07:03 PM

i'd just put it in a bank account with atleast a 1% interest rate.

that way even if it's only 1 million that's 10,000 bucks a month

or a more fun approach..
buy my dad a new house
buy my mom a new house
give my brother money
and ofcourse....

open my own public aquarium.. :P

BlueAbyss · #7 02-06-2009, 09:03 PM

I would:

1. Pay off all my bills, and my family's bills.
2. Quit my job and buy some forest locally. Build a cabin by a lake on said property.
3. Open a restaurant. Containing 5000 gallons of saltwater.

4. Buy some old growth forest on the coast.
5. Buy some not so old growth forest on the other (east) coast. Don't worry, it will be old growth eventually...
6. Buy some undisturbed grassland on the prairies. Well, sorta undisturbed.
7. Buy some forest in ON or QC. The Carolinian kind, I think.
8. Proclaim them all my personal eco-paradises and leave them be. Well, except for some research projects, probably some replanting of natives and management of foreign species, that sort of thing. Eventually culminating in small eco-tourism mini-resorts.

Hmm now that I think about I'd probably stop at number 4 and be happy.