lets pretend....

**sabrelvssammy** · 01-27-2009, 12:57 PM

congratulations!

great uncle 'joe' gave you a lotto ticket for christmas (you-being the frugal you that you are...didn't even have to pay for it...)

well, you won! you are the proud receipient of ONE MILLION DOLLARS.... (and that's 1 million...after taxes...of course...)...

SO, tell us....what are you going to do with it ?????????

**joyofsix** · 01-27-2009, 01:00 PM

Dh and I play this game. We would
1) Pay off our house
2) Pay off his sister's homes
3) Invest the money for kids education and our retirement.
4) Do some updates to this house.

Are we boring or what?

**Momto2Boyz** · 01-27-2009, 01:26 PM

1. Pay off our house
2. Purchase 2 new cars & sell the one we own (or maybe give it away to someone who needs one)
3. Start my own business with some of it.
4. The rest would go into CD's, and we would live off the interest while getting our business started!

**Sassyclass** · 01-27-2009, 01:30 PM

1. Pay off all debts
2. buy land
3. build dream home
4. bank remainder, if anything left
5. keep jobs, because there probably wouldn't be enough left to retire.

Cat

**Neeley** · 01-27-2009, 01:47 PM

1) Buy my dad a new house and truck
2) Give my mom some
3) Pay off the in-law's home
4) Give SIL & BIL enough to cover adoption costs
5) Put away some in a trust for each of our kids
6) Make a sizable donation to the Elmore Co. Humane Shelter

**rainbowgc** · 01-27-2009, 01:49 PM

Boring but true, invest it.

**nancycg56** · 01-27-2009, 02:09 PM

1. Pay off house and any lingering bills
2. Buy a tricked out RV
3. Give a chunk to kids and niece and nephews
4. Make sure DH's Mom goes in a GOOD Alzheimer's home
5. Start a scholarship at the HS our kids graduated from for kids from military families going on to college
6. If there is any left, put it to work for us

**HisDaisy** · 01-27-2009, 02:12 PM

We would:
1. Pay off all debts including student loan and credit cards.
2. Buy a house - hopefully free and clear or with a small mortgage
3. Invest to help fund retirement
4. Give some away

**Nickle00** · 01-27-2009, 02:15 PM

1. Pay off debts
2. Build a home
3. Buy a Mitsubishi Eclipse (My dream car)
4. Buy DBF's dream car 87 Mustang...or something like that
5. Investments/Savings
6. Help our families
7. Start a charity or help change lives in one way or another

**tbs727** · 01-27-2009, 02:22 PM

Donate to my church $100,000
Pay off all debt including car $50,000
Buy a very modest home $125,000
Install solar power $10,000
Pay cash for a good used truck for dh $25,000 (give our car to a friend who needs one)
Start a business, living off the money for one year $40,000 (go back to work if the business doesn't take off)
Donate to local no kill shelter $10,000
Invest the rest for children's college, future taxes, retirement $640,000

=$1,000,000

**Homekeepn** · 01-27-2009, 02:26 PM

I would give my uncle a hug, smooch, and big fat check. Then I would
buy some land and build a modest sized log cabin that is self sustainable.
We only have about $10,000 in debt ( mostly medical) I would pay that off.
Since I do not have a car right now and the hubs uses a company vehicle maybe we should buy a car.
Then make sure my children have their education paid for and trust funds for the future.
The rest would go to be invested for our future.

**IntlMom** · 01-27-2009, 02:33 PM

yep, I;m the same as everyone else

pay off debts
pay off house
fully fund kids college
buy an excellent RV
help our missionary friends
invest

**Starlight9803** · 01-27-2009, 02:39 PM

DH and I have also discussed our "plans" lol

1. pay off all debt including mortgage ($30K)
2. buy land/house at the lake ($250K - and that's getting fancy lol)
3. buy ourselves new vehicles (reasonably priced) and our new RV ($150K)
4. buy animals/equipment/plants (goats, cattle, pigs, chickens, small tractor, fruit trees, etc) for getting ourselves more sustainable ($100K)
5. put half of what's left into trust for the children ($235K)
6. save/invest the rest

DH would continue to do small side jobs (mechanical, construction, driving, etc) because he likes to stay busy, but he would get to pick and choose. Realistically, he could make enough part time to support us (we would be debt/mortgage free) and I would spend my time taking care of the animals and plants and processing them for our food needs. HAHA, can you tell we've been over this in detail??? lol

**pollypurebred39** · 01-27-2009, 02:55 PM

1) Tithe! Before a single penny is spent. First fruits go to God.
2) pay off all debt
3) Meet with our accountant to decide how to invest for our future
4) Get a safe and sock away a good bit in our home
5) provide an education for our boys
6) fix our home, french drain, new bathroom, new kitchen, refinish floors, add a bathroom (all his own!!!!) for our youngest, finish basement, paint house and add shutters, repave driveway. And if at all possible I'd like to add a big laundry room, a mud room and a home office to our home.
7) I'd love to have help cleaning our home a few times a week, that would help me tremendously.

**thefrug** · 01-27-2009, 03:16 PM

1) change our phone number and pay off our mortgage
2) buy out both neighbors on either side of us
3) pave the lane
4) fence in all the new property
5) put in a nice small orchard and berry patch
6) buy some goats and chickens(chooks LOL)
7) buy some beach property
8) make our house and property off grid and self sufficient
9) donate to the United Cerebal Palsy
10) donate to the Association of Retarded Citizens
11) Donate to the National Diabetes Association
12) invest the rest in cd's, mutual funds and real estate