If you won $100 million, how would you spend your money?

[jim416]

Re: If you won $100 million, how would you spend your money?

I would set up a foundation that would help our troops, police officers, firemen that are in need. I know this has already been done, but I'd do a lot of research and make sure that the money would go to help them out, let's say a wife who has lost her husband serving our country, that kind of thing. A soldier who has heroically served and has a child that has large medical bills, things of that nature.

I don't need much, never have, although I have nice stuff that I worked hard for and paid off.

I'd buy a new Chevy HHR, give my Cruiser away.

Go back to Vietnam with a bunch of buddies from the war.

Take a tour of all the baseball stadiums.

[trobinson97]

Re: If you won $100 million, how would you spend your money?

Go back to Vietnam with a bunch of buddies from the war.

Hey jim what would you do in Vietnam, just a "remember this" kind of thing? I know I'd love to get back to S. Korea if I have the chance one day.

[mkharsh33]

Re: If you won $100 million, how would you spend your money?

I'd buy EA just to shut it down for good

yeah, or that...

[fishepa]

Re: If you won $100 million, how would you spend your money?

I would invest the money and live off the interest.

[Beantown]

Re: If you won $100 million, how would you spend your money?

-Pay off any bills or debts my parents may have
-Pay off my sister's college loans
-Buy a house for my mom where ever she wants it
-Give my dad enough for him to retire
-Give my sisters some money

I figure, after all of that, I'd still have at the least 90 million left....

-Buy a relatively small house, but furnish it as well as I can.
-Buy a condo somewhere on the beach
-Buy about 5 or 6 cars.

-I'd invest about 20 million of it, so I had some form of income.
-Take my family and friends on some all-expenses paid trips.
-Get some season tickets for the Patriots, Red Sox and Celtics...then split up the tickets between my family and me.


I'd still probably have a lot of money left even after all that...so I'd just live off that for awhile.

[Hassan Darkside]

Re: If you won $100 million, how would you spend your money?

I would probably do the same, invest it. Well first I would get a couple cars for my parents and move them into a better house, not a huge place though, just a nice place. I'd pay my tuition and get myself a car. Then I'd sit on it for as long as I could only using it to buy what I need so people wouldn't have any idea. I would try to lay as low as possible and make sure it stretches for my kids and their kids, etc.

[loccdogg26]

Re: If you won $100 million, how would you spend your money?

Being single with no kids, I find ways to make my money grow. Buy a Jeep Cherokee Srt8 and a house. Thats about it. Lay low as much as possible. No jewelry or none of that garbage. To each his own I guess. I'm not a flashy dude.

[youvalss]

Re: If you won $100 million, how would you spend your money?

I'd buy Al Qaeda and sell it to the KKK, they should know what to do with it...

[jim416]

Re: If you won $100 million, how would you spend your money?

Hey jim what would you do in Vietnam, just a "remember this" kind of thing? I know I'd love to get back to S. Korea if I have the chance one day.

Visit Saigon (lived in Saigon 3 years), then Vung Tau, Long Binh (no longer there, but), plus my daughter is buried there.

[auburntigersfan]

Re: If you won $100 million, how would you spend your money?

I would probably first donate $10 million to church and chairites.
I would live off of it and when I die make sure almost all goes to charity. I wouldn't want to give it all to my kids, I would help them get good education and all with the money and leave a little for them. That's what Bill Gates is doing.

[Jonesey]

Re: If you won $100 million, how would you spend your money?

put it all on black.

[TarHeelMan]

Re: If you won $100 million, how would you spend your money?

I'd do my best not to end up like this dude:



I remember seeing this cat on the news when he won the New York Lotto for $5 million. He was all on the news, with his jumpoff and his wife at the press conference. My Dad, while we were watching the news, said, "Watch, this nigra's gonna be broke in ten years". He was close.

His story is his here, in case anyone is interested in how you go broke after winning 5 million...

http://weeklywire.com/ww/08-23-99/nash_cover.html

[Trevytrev11]

Re: If you won $100 million, how would you spend your money?

$100 Million

-$50 Million stays in the bank. I could put this in a money market account and make over 1.5Million a year in interest.
-$10M to our families and closest friends.
-Probably buy some land and my dream house here in the area for about $1M.
-Probably buy some land in a few other states and countries for another $2-3M.
-Another $1-2 Million on "toys". I'm pretty simple, so all I want is a loaded Tundra, a 7 series BMW and an old hot rod.
-Donate $1-2 Million to my high school and college baseball programs.

Now the fun part:
I would take $5-$10 Million and use it to build a baseball park complex. I would put half of the money into a single stadium and do it up big time. Locker rooms, press box, batting cages, concession, everything. I would then coach an American Legion (or similar) aged team in the summers that would play at this stadium. I would then go to the nearest high school, offer them $1 Million to let me coach PE and coach baseball. I don't have a teaching credential, so I figure $1M is enough of a bribe that they can find a way around the system. They would also play in this stadium.

The stadium would be built to my specifications and would be maintained like a MLB field.

In the off seasons, I would host camps, tournamets, etc to help off set some of the costs.

The entire facility would have the main field and another nice, but simple field. There would then be a pony league sized field (80' bases) and two little league fields.


I would then use another $10M-$20M and donate it to 2K or EA in order to influence them to make the baseball game I would want. Maybe, I would just steal all of their best talents and start my game from scratch. Maybe I'd start with out the MLB license. I'd produce the game much cheaper because of this, then offer it cheaper to the customers. Once the game developed a strong base, then I'd go attempt to bid on the MLB license.

I figure after that, I could live off of the interest of my savings and put the rest of the money (about $10M) in accounts for my children and nieces/nephews.

[KG]

Re: If you won $100 million, how would you spend your money?

I'd buy Robinho for my indoor soccer team.

That would be great to see.

I can tell you all the things I would not do:

1) Work
2) Buy a "normal car"
3) Put all my money into one bank, let alone the majority in regular accounts (money market, checking, savings). I would only want to have access to a reasonable portion.
4) Open up a restaurant or bar/club. Too many fail.


Oh, and you guys better take out a serious loan if you think you could buy EA for $100 mil

[stewaat]

Re: If you won $100 million, how would you spend your money?

I'd buy a nice ocean or lakefront property in a nice area for a couple million. I would put everything I could want in there. I'd buy a couple nice cars to have so I can take my newfound model girlfriends out with.

Then I would become an option trader and just make boatloads of money for fun. I would sit on my lakefront property getting "favors" from my women while making money.

Oh and I would put a couple mil towards security.