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Wes: 10/8/2012
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NBR: What would you do with 50 million dollars?
What would you do? What's the first thing you would buy? What would be your long term plan? Both frivolous and smart.
116 books in 2016
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Wes: 10/8/2012
Re: NBR: What would you do with 50 million dollars?
My new bff Gayle Forman!
“You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control"
- Gayle Forman
"People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn't have before. Then you are better equipped to deal with your current reality."
- Neil Gaiman
Married Bio
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3 - Pay off our mortgage and move into the house we want. Then pay off our siblings' mortgages and buy them houses (since we're all stuck because of the damn housing market here).
4 - Help out BFF with her money issues
5 - Plan many vacations.
6 - Sign up for all the races I want to do because those things are damn expensive
6 - Hire a nanny/chef/maid/pool boy/etc.
7 - Donate
Books read in 2010: 153
Books read in 2011: 160
Books read in 2012: 134
Books read in 2013: 110
Books read in 2014: 151
Books read in 2015: 153
Books read in 2016: 31
Books read in 2011: 111
Books read in 2012: 100
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52 Books in 2014??
My sweet babies:
Buy new vehicle for myself
Put money away for Alex
TTC
Do all home reno projects
Build cow barn and get mh some cows, myself some goats.
Build coop and get chickens.
Open an account with my company to help me manage that much money, pay off all our debts & our parents' debts, pay off mortgage and buy or build dream house, buy a new car, set up a college fund & trust fund for LO and my neice, go on vacation, donate to my disorder and annomously to people when I feel like it & quit my job
And buy a library.
~ E ~ 7/2010
~ A ~ 3/2014
Follow my SK blog as I reread the entire SK library (again!):
http://www.skallthetime.blogspot.com/
Renovate all the things. Or buy a new house.
Buy a Maserati. GIF myself throwing dolla dolla bills out the window with my hair blowing in the wind.
Shopping spree at Neiman and Anthro. Obviously shopping with @booneybear and @MrsJenE to buy all the shoes.
2. Pay off all our debts.
3. Buy or build our forever house and sell this one.
4. Donate.
5. Invest.
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Build a new house
Buy my Dad a home (my mom is all set)
Buy a new car
Pay off all our debt
Put money away for college for the kids
Travel for a while....so I guess hire a tutor to travel with us for the kids too
Buy a vacation house (or two)
Invest and save the rest
"Live like there's no midnight."
Pay off mortgage and car payment. Buy a second car and a new truck. Pay off all other debt.
Start building a house on the land. Move into the house and sell the old house once the new house was built.
Pay off my parent's and grandfather's mortgage.
Set up self sustainability plans on the land and establish semi permanent buildings for primitive skills gatherings.
Go on a back to back cruise, ideally through the Panama Canal.
Put the rest into savings or invest and live off the rest as long as possible.
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
"I don't much care where –"
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Pay off the last wee bit of debt.
Pay for the house my parents are building... Give MIL more money for the house she is building....
TRAVEL. In style. A lot.
Maybe buy a vacation property somewhere?
Pay off our Honda Fits. (Yes, DH and I have matching cars. No, we wouldn't trade our Fits in for anything fancier.)
Eat great quality food. (lots of seafood.
Obviously save a bunch for retirement and university for our daughters. Our 7 year old is already planning to take off to the Sorbonne in Paris the minute she graduates high school. lol.
Help out a couple of friends who have been good to us.
I might buy myself a big fat diamond. Emerald cut, please.
Move to an area where we actually want to live. Make large donations to the local Special Olympics, youth build-a-bike program, and other the charities we already support where we live now, so they will have our support after we leave. Build a new but fairly modest home, build my husband a music studio.
Quit my job. With my free time, get in shape, have more time for all the outdoorsy stuff I never get to do anymore, and volunteer. DH and I have some ideas for what we'd do, but it would depend on where we end up located and whether there are already programs in place we devote ourselves to, or create a program, and where the biggest need is.
Adopt.
Do some traveling.
It'd be fun to get redo our whole wardrobes, buy lots of running shoes and cycling stuff, and new phones, too. And I'd get the world's most expensive haircut right before my class reunion next year.
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I'd get a couple of moderate properties- a condo in Chicago so we can go on overnights, a place in Vegas, and a time share in some dude ranch resort.
I'd then be a venture capitalist while working part-time doing what I do.
Izzy and Baby A ~ Adorable Punks