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?
If you'd asked me in November I would have said I'd pay it all to bring Jim Harbaugh here.
While they might be considered 10s by appearance, they'd still have more miles on them than my 2002 Chevy Prizm.
a slow Tuesday in my line of work
March 17th, 2015 at 11:24 PM ^
March 17th, 2015 at 11:21 PM ^
O.K. now what....
March 18th, 2015 at 12:51 AM ^
The way all good stories start, this guy got a $30,000 reenlistment check as we are pulling into Thailand. The rest of the story writes itself. He could not infact spend the 30k though he tried.
Then he wasn't trying hard enough.
Why quit at two? Think BIG!!!
Maybe file for divorce. She can have half.
Two chicks at the same time.
March 17th, 2015 at 10:18 PM ^
again?
**edit beaten by a second. I'd probably make a post on Mgoblog about it though.
Plus there's too much scrutiny. I remember when a middle aged guy in WV won the lottery and a year or two later he had tens of thousands of dollars stolen from his vehicle outside a strip club. He was the victim, but everyone had an opinion about how he should've spent his money.
March 17th, 2015 at 10:03 PM ^
Sounds like an episode from "Justified."
March 18th, 2015 at 11:42 AM ^
that show has grown on me, some great acting in the context of hillbilly Kentucky. I laugh out loud alot at that show.
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the downpayment. . .
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Very thoughtful of you. I'd probably smash my computer down like I'm spiking a football and might consider FedEx'ing the pieces back to my office if I could be bothered.
I would totally go to work, both not care and say exactly what I think and say exactly what I wanted to do.
Also I'd ask for a raise/promotion and to be moved to the team I want to be in.
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March 17th, 2015 at 10:00 PM ^
Sounds a lot like what I would do. Pay off family debt and just travel for a while.
Then buy a nice house on Old Mission Peninsula in Traverse City, a home on a golf course in Naples, FL and a condo at a ski resort (probably Deer Valley). There's no where on earth better to live in the summer than Traverse City and no where better in the winter than southwest Florida (admittedly I'm biased). And I really like Deer Valley.
March 17th, 2015 at 11:34 PM ^
I beg to differ on "no better place to live in the Summer..." I'll see your Tarverse City and RAISE you with the North Shore of crysatal-clear Glen Lake, just 30 minutes west of Traverse City right near Sleeping Bear Dunes.
There may not be a more beautiful body of water on the planet.
I would pay off my house, my truck, buy my wife the Jeep she wants, buy my step daughters each a house, and after quiting my job in epic fashion, I would buy a home on Glen Lake with the biggest beach and watch sunsets in the summer while writing a book.
And buy four seats in the bIg House in the front of Chairback section for the rest of my life.
...And go to the Masters
is very close to the same as mine on two particular things you posted:
1) moving to the Sleeping Bear Dunes/Glen Lake area.
and
2) Upgrading my season tickets (although I was thinking Outdoor Box rather than Chairback. Either one would work for me, though---mainly because if it's Michigan Football at The Big House, I'm outdoors with 100000+ other Michigan fans and alumni, not indoors, away from real.
March 17th, 2015 at 10:36 PM ^
1) Take financial care of my family and friends - so they never want.
2) Donate to Mott and St.Judes Children's Hospitals - to try and make a difference.
3) Buy a place back up in A.A. - to enjoy the Summer and Fall and see games.
4) Go to Columbus and pay their players and recruits in such a way that I will get caught, and the Ohio State program will get slapped with recruiting violations, and then pay the media to keep the story alive, and embarass the N.C.A.A. into doing something about it. Then do it again, and again, until they get the Death Penalty.
5) Enjoy what is left of my life, and pass on what I have learned to the kids in my family.
I would live on a boat for a year. Maybe do the Great Loop or go up the West coast into Alaska.
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I'd buy a robe and lots of non-dairy creamer. White Russians (or caucasians) for everyone!!!
"Careful man, there's a beverage here."
Whatever the fuck I feel like doing.
Craig James, osu's ex-women's hockey coach and just take off around the US till we're forced to leave.
-Buy football/basketball/hockey tickets.
-Go to every Michigan game home, away, or neutral site for the rest of my life.
-Donate 50 million dollars to the university/donate 50 million dollars to the athletic department
Yes, my priorities are out of wack.
March 17th, 2015 at 10:42 PM ^
I would just donate the $50 million and tell them that my only consideration is that I get to go to any athletic event I ever want to go to.
Sideline/Courtside seats? No problem sir.
If I feel like using Crisler for a pickup game one day? No problem sir.
I want to play video games on the jumbotron at Michigan Stadium? No problem sir.
Take the lump sum. Not tell anyone I didn't have to. Set up trusts for my nieces and nephews and siblings. Write checks to pay my parents back for raising me. Not loan money to anyone. Pay off student loans. Buy a house with cash (nothing extravagent). Keep working for a while, I have good medical, but set up a plan to go into business for myself. Invest the rest into an annuity paying me a couple hundred a year.
Not that I've thought of it.
Lifetime season tickets!! Whoop!
Keep $5 million so I could retire right now, then give the rest away immediately and let everyone know it so that they stopped bothering me.
1. First 10% goes to my church, then:
2. Buy a winter home in the Keys.
2. Buy a summer home in the North Carolina mountains.
3, Buy a condo in Ann Arbor for football and basketball games.
4. Put a Michigan-themed man cave in each place.
4a. Each man-cave will have a wall of televisions so I can watch all the sporting events I'm wagering on.