You're rich? Now what?

[Commander Quan]

Let’s say you win the intergalactic lottery, and now you’re rich, not just like “Yea, I won a million dollars!” rich, more like “Daddy Warbucks or Scrooge McDuck rich. Of course you’re going to take care of your family, set up a trust fund for the next 6 generations of your offspring, and hire the Rolling Stones to play at your “retirement party” but then what? How are you going to live the lifestyle of an eccentric Super Multi Billionaire?

I’ve done a little thinking and I think I know what I would do.

1. Buy a 7 day set of McLaren F1s, and make sure that I get both of Ralph Lauren’s
2. Procure a warehouse full of pipe tobacco
3. Charter a C-130 to fly to Havana and come back filled with cigars and Havana Club rum
4. Buy a very large patch of land in Texas, so Ted Nugget and I can get drunk and shoot propane tanks
5. Have a fresh box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch every morning, so I can dump out all but the last bowl that has the extra cinnamon and sugar.
6. Hire a personal mime artist to represent me in court when I go to fight all the speeding tickets I get with #1

What would you do?

[JE3146]

After taking care of all immediate family, I'd probably give half of it to the ADA (American Diabetes Association) and then buy a plot of land, build a house, and become a fulltime hobbyist in any of my dozen+ hobbies.

[Razorhog]

1. New house with more room (walk in humidor for me and dark room for the wife)
2. Leer Jet and personal 24x7 pilot.
3. I agree, probably go with the McClaren F1.
4. Smoke fancy premium cigars - Anejos, Opus X, Padron 64th, etc.
5. Have someone run a philanthropy foundation in my name.
6. Have fun!

[T.G]

Buy china.

Then kick everyone out.

[marge796]

I would do whatever felt right for the moment. With some exceptions of course .


Chris.....

[hotreds]

Ain't gonna happen, so why torture myself?!

[marge796]

You never know? I tell myself every Wednesday & Saturday this is the big day, that is, if I remmebered to buy my lottery ticket.





Chris.....

[ade06]

Charter a jet and take the boys to Vegas (the wives can come too)!!!
Buy a yacht so that I can bum around the Caribbean during the winters.
Buy several homes around the world for our travels.
After a couple of years of living the "Trust fund" life.
Set-up a non-profit and devote a good portion of my time doing philanthropic work (the rest of the time I would be playing golf and traveling).

[DMK]

1- Payoff anthing owed to anyone.
2- Jump on a plane and get the F#$% out of dodge until the next big winner claims the fame and spotlight...
3- Buy a few acres, build what I 'really' want, fence it with a double row to allow a dog run around the property...
4- Live in peace.

[68TriShield]

Flip off my Brothers(no not you guys)and drive out the gate.
The rest is pure gravy...

[ade06]

Originally Posted by DMK

1- Payoff anthing owed to anyone.
2- Jump on a plane and get the F#$% out of dodge until the next big winner claims the fame and spotlight...
3- Buy a few acres, build what I 'really' want, fence it with a double row to allow a dog run around the property...
4- Live in peace.

I would set-up a trust and claim the winnings under the trust, which would minimize how many people would know I hit the lotto.

One thing I know, I would own and smoke as many habanos as I could(all vintage) I would drink Dom P like its going out of style

[rack04]

I would pay off all outstanding debt and buy a Mr. Cluck's Chicken Shack.

[Skywalker]

Throw a big herf and fly each and everyone of you to it!!!

I hope you like Sierra Nevada beer because I'm buying the brewery!!!

We'll herf right inside the brewery... because it's my brewery!!!

After friends and family are taken care of:

1) Buy Puff.com and fire Jon Caputo's ass
2) Buy a winter home in the Florida Keys on the beach along with a Yatch to put around in.
3) Pay Jimmy Buffett to play the house warming party for #2
4) Buy 4 Ferrari's...one for each direction.
5) Buy a summer home in the Hamptons
6) Pay U2 to play the housewarming for #5 (for my wife)
7) Buy a spare house in Western Ireland right outside of Doolin
8) Set up a scholarship fund at my old HS
9) Give my church $1 million so they don't have to worry about anything anymore.
10) Hire Hubert Keller as my personal chef
11) Send my company laptop back to the company via private jet and limo from the airport to the building with wallpaper that says, "I Quit!" on it.
12) Travel the world and see everything I wanted to see.
13) Underwite worthwhile charities that help end world hunger, animal abuse and the Wounded Warrior program....gotta take care of the troops.
14) Open a cigar shop just so I have something to do with spare time and stock it with nothing but high-end sticks (Davidoff, Opus, Dunhill, Fuente, Tatuaje, Illusione, etc...)
15) Buy the NY Islanders just to make sure they NEVER leave Long Island
16) Take care of my BOTL's and SOTL with a couple boxes each of their favorite cigars.

Who hasn't daydreamed about this? I've read of so many people upon winning lotteries whose life went to **** because of their winning a ton of money. I'd never let anyone know I won anything just so I could keep my anonymity and live my life in a comfortable way. Money changes peoples perception of everything and even family members. Look what happens when people die and there is a will left,,families are destroyed over money and what is supposedly left to others.

The wife and played this out one day and we came to the conclusion that we would do things without others knowing about it...i.e. paying off family mortgages, cars, without them knowing about it. We would of course give 50% to those places that help others,,giving back is what keeps you grounded. We would keep back $1,000,000 for us and spend the rest on making other lives better. There is a ton of things you can do to make life better for those who don't have as much. This would be so much better than buying airplanes, mansions, cars and other things that will never fill the whole in your life.

[0002S]

1. Change my phone number
2. Leave all my belongings as they sit
3. Get a P.O. Box
4. Enjoy life one day at a time

[MajorCaptSilly]

1. Buy Tom (icehog3) some stuff.
2. Go to Eric's (smokin5) house with some high dollar whisky and hire Dave Alvin to perform for us.
3. Make Sklee Day a national holiday
4. Buy and island and call it Sklee island.
5. Hire someone to do my text messaging for me.


MCS

[DrDubzz]

horde expensive things, cure a disease or two, travel everywhere, buy at least one Bugatti Veyron, give the wife her own Amex black card, buy land, lots of it

(assuming all of the stuff in the OP is taken care of)

[blugill]

Originally Posted by Commander Quan

4. Buy a very large patch of land in Texas, so Ted Nugget and I can get drunk and shoot propane tanks

Uncle Ted doesn't drink