If you won the powerball what would you do? I would buy as big of a stretch of land I could on the side of a mountian. I would want a lake with a log cabin house on it. I would have a few horses too. I would wake up in the morning and go ride the fence. I could see me getting up in the morning and smoking a fat one and riding my horse shooting stuff with my .45 all day. The nearest neighbor would have to be miles away. What would you do?
I'd buy the property next to your log cabin and put a trashy looking used mobile home and some junked out old cars on blocks. Then I would sit outside on the recliner that used to be indoor furniture and shoot at the beer cans littering the property :insane::rofl::thumb::wave:
first of all i have a couple of friends that i would do some nice things for. i'm not talking new house or anything huge like that, just something nice that they likely wouldnt do for themselves. i have five nephews that i would set up college funds for. (tightly set up so it would have to be used for their education.) my parents dont have many debts, but i would pay them off so their income could be used to keep them comfortable. pay off the few debts i have. buy a modest house in baton rouge, with a big yard for the dogs. get better season tickets for football, and get season tickets for baseball. that would be the splurge for me part of it. invest as much as i can for later years or to help my parents if needed later.
realistically: live a modest live -- modest home, modest car, modest clothes, modest possessions, modest vacations, while investing the rest to grow my fortune, while at the same time being a philatrophist -- always making sure my friends and family are taken care of so they can have a modest live too, while giving the rest to philatrophy fun mode: travel the world living in all the cool places i can think of: on the side of a mountain like the OP, but also on the side of a beautiful beach, in each of the world's coolest cities, etc gangster mode: move to a country where the American dollar is worth 10 to 50 times what it's worth here, build myself a "Playboy Mansion," surround myself with beautiful young women, live a playboy lifestyle, party constantly, bribe all the local officials, etc
i would buy small apartments in london and tokyo and buenos aires and places like that and move from one to the next drinking beer and spending time with ladies. this certainly sounds like a good idea
No use thinking small . . . 1. Start a trust fund to take care of my close relatives, old chums, and former girlfriends who have fallen on hard times. Make my crabby uncle the trustee so that I won't have to listen to all the hard luck stories from cousins I don't like. 2. Buy a ranch in Colorado, a mountain lodge in Switzerland, a suite with a view in New York, a Malibu beach house, and a castle in England so I never have to spend another summer in Louisiana. Of course, an antebellum plantation home on river road for football games. 3. Buy TigerFan.com from Brett and update the friggin' V-bulletin software. Make Okie the administrator. Pay her lavishly. 4. Indulge every decadent whim that doesn't endanger my health . . . and a few that do. Replace The Most Interesting Man in the World as the toast of Monaco. Crew my yacht with sultry, insouciant Robert Palmer girls. Stay thirsty, my friend. 5. Acquire the toys. The Gulfstream jet, the Lamborghini sports car, the sailing yacht, the 1932 Rolls Royce Phantom sedan, Charlene Theron, the OCC chopper, the Rembrandt, and the Batmobile. 6. Invest in and take over a innovative company doing research into gravity and magnetics. Create a zero-point energy breakthrough, displace fossil fuels, own all the international patents, and become the Rockefeller of the 21st century. 7. Leave a $5 billion endowment to LSU.
I would pay everything off, pay all my parents and siblings, and in laws debts off, buy a home and land in humbolt county california, make investments, and start my own pot farm.
Buy the Pennington mansion, get a couple pandas (I would make it happen), buy the Hornets/Saints and make sure they are run by the right people, get assigned seats in the LSU student section (I would make it happen). Get a building named after me at LSU :lol: VIP everywhere I go, livin the high life. Make sure everyone in my family is taken care of. Get all my dream cars. And I think that's about it, don't wanna be too greedy...
Damn! All I wanted was a quiet place in the woods, a horse, some bullets for my .45 and to be able to smoke one freakin joint without having to worry about a hair test. Maybe I cut my dreams a little short.
