OT: What would you do if you won the lottery?
What would you do if you won the record lottery amount? The record for a single ticket claim is $590.5M which came out to a payout of $370.9M to one lucky person in Florida two years ago.
How would you celebrate? Would you buy anything right off the bat? Would you quit your job in a fun way? Would go big and buy a mega-house in a fancy location?
Would you do anything Michigan-related? Perhaps go and watch them play in bowl games, the CFP or NCAA Tournaments in Basketball?
March 17th, 2015 at 10:07 PM ^
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March 17th, 2015 at 11:56 PM ^
March 17th, 2015 at 10:09 PM ^
Buy a house in A2 (income property, rent it to nice responsible grad students) with a garage I can tailgate at on game days (with season tix).
Give Harbaugh a nice advance on his book deal.
Boat.
House up north on Lake Michigan.
New car.
Invest about 100 mil.
Make some donations.
Throw a kickass music festival.
Give a lot to my parents, brother and sister.
LIve off the rest.
March 17th, 2015 at 10:12 PM ^
First I would have to do the boring stuff like investing some and setting a budget so I wouldn't blow it all. Then take care of my family and friends.
For fun I would buy some thoroughbreds and get into the racing game.
March 17th, 2015 at 10:13 PM ^
March 17th, 2015 at 10:19 PM ^
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March 17th, 2015 at 10:22 PM ^
bring back the $1.99 breakfast!
March 17th, 2015 at 10:23 PM ^
What about Drake's?
Peanuts by the basketful ...
March 17th, 2015 at 10:18 PM ^
March 17th, 2015 at 10:19 PM ^
and so did many of you. fun as it is to speculate on stuff like this, your family is your 'lottery' win. your spouse, those kids, your siblings, etc. your faith if you have it, your health, if you have it. everything else is just details.
and if i did win, it would be virtually undetectible in terms of behavior or possessions. set up my family/extended family with trusts, pay off note that the church has, work less, but not retire.
oh, and i might throw one massive mgoblog bbq for you guys on a game day. so there.
March 17th, 2015 at 10:22 PM ^
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March 17th, 2015 at 10:22 PM ^
Give the vast majority to charity - specifically, rebuild some of the infrastructure of our town, like a new indoor skating rink and an indoor practice facility for baseball and soccer; make aesthetic improvements to our schools; and then donate whatever's left. I'd keep around $20 mil for myself and my family. I'd start a rehab business - buy old houses, rehab them, and flip them. No new stuff, just better and more vacations.
March 17th, 2015 at 10:23 PM ^
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and raise a huge family.
March 17th, 2015 at 10:59 PM ^
March 17th, 2015 at 10:41 PM ^
and raise a huge family.
March 17th, 2015 at 10:46 PM ^
From what I hear, Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids. In fact, it's cold as hell.
March 17th, 2015 at 10:58 PM ^
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March 17th, 2015 at 10:33 PM ^
Buy a nice house out here for a cool 2.5 million or so out here in Nebraska, along with a fall house in AA.
Go to the lot and purchase a Callaway C7.
Style on hoez
March 17th, 2015 at 10:46 PM ^
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March 17th, 2015 at 10:44 PM ^
After all the boring stuff (buying a nice house with a man cave so covered with UM stuff it would make WD jealous, investing, making sure my family was set for), I'd travel. I am the worst-traveled person I know, so I'd put that money to use and hit the road. Two trips for sure:
1. The girlfriend and I go to London, stay in the finest hotels, see some West End shows, do the whole posh thing - and then find a London cabbie, tip him outrageously, and tell him to take us to the good places the tourists don't know about.
2. Get myself an appropriate vehicle, and do my own Civil War battlefield tour. Every place I could get to (including Washington DC), culminating in a trip to Gettysburg. There, on the early morning of July 1, I will stand in McPherson's Woods next to the 24th Michigan monument, open a bottle of Lagavulin, and drink a toast to two men: my great x 3 grandfather, who stood in those woods in 1863, and my father, who taught me about the war he fought in.
After all, if you luck into that kind of money, you ought to spend part of it on a pilgrimage.
March 17th, 2015 at 11:21 PM ^
Nice to see a fellow Civil War buff on here.
My ancestor was in the same generation as yours and was in one of Custer's cavalry brigades, I think 6th or 7th Michigan (from Grand Rapids) Saw some action behind the battlefield on the third day against Jeb Stuart, and then had pneumonia that knocked him out of the war after that.
The 24th Michigan is one of those regiments that is very renowned in history. They were the relative newcomers to the Iron Brigade, fought like hell on the first day to hold up AP Hill. I remember seeing the picture of their regimental flag (what was left of it) in one of my dad's history books.
I wouldn't mind going to England but i've seen London...would like to see Manchester (music capital of the world) and Liverpool, more of Scotland.
Like many people, I've never seen East Cavalry Field, probably the most overlooked part of the Gettysburg site, where Custer and his "Come on you Wolverines!" charges blunted Stuart's attempt to split the Union lines from the rear on July 3.
The 24th took 496 men into action that morning, and suffered 399 casualties, including my Grandpa Sam, who was hit in the foot and lower leg and limped for the rest of his life. I take my screen name from him.
The girlfriend and I also want to tour England and Scotland - her to see the home of The Beatles, and me to liberate several bottles of single malt.
I had a great*3 grandfather in the 56th Pennsylvania Volunteers who fought next to the Iron Brigade on the first day then spent the next two days on Culp's Hill. The personal connection is a very powerful reminder of the sacrifices those men and women made, and the ongoing service of those who fight our battles.
As to stops on your tour, I'd recommend:
Vicksburg, fantastic park and recently regroomed for 150th anniversary in '13.
Shiloh, eeriely quiet and misty when I was there.
Lookout Mtn and Chickamauga are excellent as well; Missionary Ridge pretty much taken over by housing.
I need to get to Virginia and Georgia one of the days. Maybe if I win the lottery ...
March 17th, 2015 at 11:11 PM ^
March 17th, 2015 at 11:23 PM ^
2. Pay off house and cars
3. Set aside money for kids college
4. Help parents/family
5. Go on a great vacation
6. Put half the remaining in savings and the other half invest
7. Season tix to Cubs and Bears
March 17th, 2015 at 11:31 PM ^
Step 1: quit job (not in a flashy or crazy way, but I'd be done)
Step 2: put half the money in zero/near zero risk investments that i am never ever ever touching
Step 3: pay off a few friends' student loans and other debts
Step 4: travel for a while
After that, no idea. But generally love life.
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March 17th, 2015 at 11:39 PM ^
at Ohio State.
Then I would make Notre Dame rehire Charlie Weis.
Then I would pay someone to put tiny Block M branded tent stakes in Dantonio's yard every day.
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March 17th, 2015 at 11:39 PM ^
March 18th, 2015 at 12:05 AM ^
I'd become batman. That's all.
March 17th, 2015 at 11:45 PM ^
With $370.9mm in the bank, I'd have a big apartment in Chicago, probably a Tony Montana place on a secluded island in the Caribbean. I'd drive a Tesla P85D and have a silver 1964 Aston Martin DB5 in the garage.
The rest I would split up. Part would ensure I could maintain whatever lifestyle and leave a big inheritance, and part would fund a foundation to [redacted personal beliefs]. I'd run the foundation as a full time job.
I would also have baller seats to a large number of sporting events and I'd hire big time musicians to play private parties.
March 17th, 2015 at 11:47 PM ^
March 17th, 2015 at 11:51 PM ^
(1) Buy a boat.
(2) Get all of my friends and family together and put them on said boat.
(3) Slowly make our a way down to an island in the tropics.
(4) Buy the island.
(5) Never come back.
March 18th, 2015 at 12:18 AM ^
Even though I'd have all the money I'd ever need, I would have to occupy myself in some way. Perhaps I would start my own business and put some of that money at risk. Or I would become a professor, or work toward improving the political structure into something more ideal.
March 18th, 2015 at 12:26 AM ^
and you'd all get a dong forrest for Christmas!
March 18th, 2015 at 12:50 AM ^
March 18th, 2015 at 12:56 AM ^
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Pay off Flints debt, help the poor, buy a mansion. See if Michigan wants me now that I'm a millionare.
As a Flint native, I heartily approve this message.
Let me know when you do it - I'll buy you a drink at The White Horse.
1) Pay off all debts.
2) Help friends that need help.
3) Start a charity for sick and abused kids, or get involved with one like Mott.