Bonneville America Forums Forums Off Topic Discussion Forums Lounge If you won the lottery

I am not talking the smaller numbers but the big one,, lets say the 300 milliuon one..

First I would take the cash out option. then take my 150 million and

Pay off all my family debt.
I would open a multi line dealer ship ( Triumph, Aprilla, MV Agusta, and maybe one more exotic line.

I would buy the company I work for, it makes money hand over fist..

Maybe buy out many of the local ambulance compaines and combine them into one. Hire new people get rid of ones who i feel have no business being in a ambulance, and expand to a state wide system.

My yaxht of course, and a house here, a cabin in the mountains and a house in Jacksonville FL..

Buy the company you work for? Not a chance. If I had that kind of cash it would be all bikes, beaches, and bumming around for me. If you don't need the money why make more?

I would to it as a way to improve on the comapony right now. Not thats its not a wounderfull place to work. But if I raised the pay, trimmed the fat, improved the equipment and atomsphere, I would have the top medics in the state beating a path to my door.

I would go out and build a 1500 cc parallel twin motor.

It would be a separate motor sort of like a pre-unit separate tranny so you could choose a 4, 5, or 6 speed.

I just posted something on my site about what I would do if I won the lottery:

"If you have $500 and about three years of your life to give up, consider picking up the new LEGO Millennium Falcon set. This sucker boasts 5,000 pieces and a four-pound manual."

http://forevergeek.com/movies/huge_millennium_falcon_lego_setunboxed.php

The 10179 piece set or the 4504 set? how bad is you ADD?

All the people I have known that have come into large sums of money quickly. Seem to go freaking nuts. I mean strange a@@ behavior. So I guess the thing to do would be to give it all away as quickly as possible.

300 million?
1/3rd on booze and parties,
1/3rd on bikes and cars ...

... and I'd squander the rest!

Move to the US/Canada, get out of this He11 Hole of a country

Move to Scotland

Round the world trip on my Speedy is one of the things on my list.

Soren

I would try to drink ALL OF IT.

First I'd go w/ paying off all the debt in my family, and set them up w/ enough in the "bank" to live off the interest. Buy a mountain in the Blue Ridge and build an awesome lodge, (Y'all come ride the parkway and stop in for a party), travel the world on the bike, then set up a skydiving company to keep myself busy. There are a few causes I support that would receive major donations.

I would buy a bright yellow Hummer with chrome spinner wheels so I could drive it to Sieria Club meetings

Whatever it is, it won't involve a job or career, (except maybe to move funds around, and walk to the mailbox to get the statements of my interest deposits. Maybe just put it all into Berkshire Hathaway, and have Warren Buffet over for lunch to make sure he minds it well. ;-/)

I can stay mighty busy without any job to get in my way

On the very extensive toy list would be a large land yacht type motorcycle to tour with. A Gold Wing with every gee-gaw known to man might work - and hit the road for a few months or years, making sure to hit the 50 states. Love my Triumph, but there would surely be room for 15 or 20 other bikes & brands in the new solid white oak (or other suitable light colored hardwood) post & beam toy barn. (Not as light as oak, but a solid bird's eye maple first growth barn might be nice too.)

I believe I'd keep our current house, but maybe crank it up a million or so with a pool and wrap around porch, a few hundred thousand paver bricks and such, and this and that - oh yeah - the 'staff' would need a house too.

I'd do a lot of renting & leasing too - as in, vacation properties, and leased jets to travel.
Ownership = more work.

1. Throw away my current phone and move in with my bro for a few days while I sort things out.

2. Find and hire a good accountant and a great financial asset manager.

3. Turn in the ticket and take a lump sum payout.

4. Move to a state income tax free state and establish residency.

3. Establish a charitable organization trust fund and/or contribute to one in an annuity based on my accountant's recommendation of distribution for full tax advantage.

4. Establish (or engage) and fund a loan agency to grant, manage, and recover any loans which family and/or 'friends' may wish to take out. The loans would be made based on merit and qualification of repayment just as any other lending agency, but at a preferred rate for qualifying individuals. Any and all requests for monetary assistance would be referred either to this loan agency or to the charitable organization mentioned in item 3 (above).

5. Get a thorough and complete physical and fix anything fixable that needs fixing.

6. Establish a comfortable annuity with remaining funds and interest generated from the above plan which would allow me to live a comfortable, healthy, adventurous, and productive life while making regular posts on BA.com which begin with, 'Anyone here up for a ride to...' (I'd buy the gas and beer!)

I would use it to destroy all my real and perceived enemies.

Hey Tim, of course you're assuming that would just be 20 beers each per day!
Also, factor in the extra cost of the odd bottle of Wild Turkey etc and that soon 'helps' get the winnings down some!

ok, my math skills are taxed enough with the calculations I've alerady performed. Can we try not to confuse things

As for me though, I would buy everyone I know a Dorkey Donkey with all the atachments. Why would I do something like that? For the same reason I do most things...

Because I can!

I would take the pay-out too
I would give half to my wife in the settlement
I would give half again to my two daughters
That would leave me with a quick 37.7
I would then find a good tailor, have a cape and mask made from the finest silk.
I would then fight crime in the dark recesses of the murky underbelly of society
When that was done, I would find out where either Jimmy Buffet or that country western dude with no chest hair and cowboy hat hang out in the Caribbean and get a place nearby. I'd eat fresh fish and drink a lot of rum and cold beer.

Ah, forget all that other stuff - I'd just eat well and drink a lot!

One word - TIME.

Time to travel- Doesn't matter much where or how, doesn't even have to be first class - give me a moped and a backpack and get me away from these cornfields.

Time to spend with my wife and kids- cause there is never enough. My 3y/o learns a new word every day! My 1y/o is fearless and funny!

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy freedom from the responsibilties that eat up most of our time. That would make me happy.

I'm going to buy some lotto tix on the way home today.

I would pay off all my bills and pay off the mortgages on my brothers and sisters houses. I'd then buy a BMW -K1200LT and tour the US and Canada. After that I'd buy a summer lake house on Sebago Lake in Maine and a winter place in Hilton Head, SC. I'd then retire to a life of fishing, biking and golfing.

Makes me think of the guy who came home and said, "pack your bags, dear, I just won the lottery;" she asks, "Where are we going?" to which he replies" I'm not going anywhere."

I would do the bore and stroke big bore kit on my Speedie. Whilst this is being done or just before it happens I would buy a Rocket 3 along with plenty of aftermarket goodies to ride while I wait.

In addtion to that bore and stroke job I would add numerous shiny bits and pieces to the Speedie.

For craps and grins I would buy a Tiger 1050 as well. And a nicely tricked out T-100 Bonnie.

Then I would buy a nice bar hopper V-twin Chopper of my choice with some really loud nasty pipes from Big Dog.

I would buy a big ole garage to go with my new house in the foothills to store everything in.

If i won that huge a lottery, i,d probably have a huge jammer and see bugger all of it . sometimes lady luck can be a right . hahahahahahahaha

Disappear

It would all go towards furthering the cause of world peace.


WHAT the heck did I just SAY???


(that darn ADD must'a kicked in again, FJ!!!)

I like the idea of whirled peas, too. Way ta go, Dwight!

I would rather be poor and have real friends,than rich with no friends!

If money alone could bring about whirled peas ..... why has some incredibly RSOB not effected the world so already?