The Hypothetical Game

[FlyingNarwhal]

I would take a lot of drugs. A LOT.

[Fruity]

Pay my student loan.
Save for my children's college.
Mortgage.
Give some money to family (parents, siblings)
Invest.
Travel.


I hope this is what I would do, anyway.

[Chas]

$1,000,000 - Retire.

$100,000,000 - Retire in luxury.

[freedomfromforum]

I'd build a homeless shelter and soup kitchen...



Next to a mega church...



As a constant thorn in the side of the hypocrites who 'own' the church.

[pineapplebunnybounce]

1mil: goes to my parents' retirement fund, leftover I'll stash in bank then maybe I'll stay in school longer and do another degree, now I can't afford to.

100mil (assuming after tax?): give away half, exactly half. It'd take me forever to figure out who to give it to, but i think most likely some form of scholarship, my education has been paved largely by scholarships so it's something I've thought of doing, giving back to the community and all that. The other half some goes to parents, the rest I'll travel the world. I have no desire to work at this point. Unless it's just for fun. I'd buy so many shoes lol.

[Doubting Thomas]

I'd pay off all my debts and never work again. I could live off the interest on a million dollars for the rest of my life. The secret is to just not be extravagant. That's what makes so many lottery winners declare bankruptcy five years later. They think they have to go out and buy new sports cars, a new mansion, expensive clothes & jewelry, etc, but don't plan for the future.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

We'd likely give it all away to family and charities. Serious, a great walloping wad of cash like that wouldn't make a tremendous difference in our lifestyle. Most of our disposable earnings already go into savings. My wife and I are both self-employed in jobs we love and are unlikely to ever retire from. We're properly insured (we live in one of those socialist nightmares some Americans are forever bitching about), the house is paid for and we have no debts of any real consequence.

Boru

[Owlix]

I don't know how much I'd share. If it were $100million, I'd probably give a lot of it away to my family and friends. Certainly set up some wise investment for future family members.

Definitely do the house and car thing, probably a trip around the world.

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I would spend a lot, no, a shit ton of money on a huge and amazing library, spiral staircases and all. I'd have special editions of all the books printed with the nice leather bindings and covers. All the books would be the same height so they didn't look crappy on the bookshelf.
I'd have every religious text I could find reprinted like graphic novels and have copies lying around the bathrooms, with the rest of the shit.
Then I would live out my life reading my books and enjoying it.

I'd probably try and think up some silly contest to give money away too. For instance, I'd keep track of how many times I heard quotes from my favorite movies or something, and the 100th quoter wins some money!!!!

If it were 1million, Well that's only about $600,000 after taxes. Not as much as it sounds.
I'd buy a modest house (because I'm in an apartment right now, no fun)
as well as this car and the means to make it all modern. Hopefully I'd have enough to start my own printing business so I wouldn't have to work for anyone else.

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I'd probably try to keep $100,000 or so and spread it amongst my friends and family.

[T.J.]

I'd buy that domain and host name for the website I want to make for my reviews and become self-employed. One million dollars would be a damn good sum of money to fall back on with that. As for the other scenario I'd give half of it to my folks for putting up with me all these years.

[Mystical]

With 100k I'd start my jewelry biz on jewelry tv for fun, buy a blimp to travel the world in, set it up as a hotel with lots of rooms so family can come stay (taking my current car with me). I'd buy orchards and employ people all over the world and take the food with me wherever I go for charity. I'd offer loans for business start ups in 3rd world countries. I'd pay off the families' mortgages and cars. I'd hire a personal chef so I can always eat foods that are healthy for me, and I'd have a massive closet full of everything from shoes to sex toys.
First place I would go is Australia to pick up my Ryan and I'd buy him his personal orchestra to play all his beautiful music