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  • Yellow LedbellyYellow Ledbelly Posts: 3,749
    I've thought about this a good bit before. I don't see me doing things much differently than I do now though.
    I would most definitely pay off the house. Give a chunk to the folks and help my best friend out a bit also.
    Sit on the rest, but go to more concerts and live it up a little more than usual.
    All I have to do is revel in the everyday....then do it again tomorrow

    They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
  • blackredyellowblackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    mookeywrench wrote:
    put it in a bank account and enjoy an annual $20,000 simple interest bonus for the rest of my life

    Not a bad idea...

    I'd pay of our car... maybe buy the camping trailer that we want, pay off my wife's school loans and then invest the rest and have a nice bonus check every month.

    I'd pay some of the principal on our house, but keep some just for the tax benefit of having a mortgage.
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  • Gary CarterGary Carter Posts: 14,067
    burn it or waste it all in vegas at da poker tables
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  • tinkerbelltinkerbell New Zealand Posts: 2,161
    First pay off loan, then hop on a plane to Adelaide to see my best friend who I haven't seen in 3 years :( .
    Buy a house, new car for me and BC, give some to charity, take the family on holiday... and buy some shoes ;)
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  • eeriepadaveeeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 42,347
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    Wasn't there a Barenaked Ladies song about this back in the mid-90's?

    yep, that was the first thing that popped in my head.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHacDYj8KZM


    I would pay my bills first. move out of my tiny apt. into a nice house. maybe travel to a few cities. donate money to a few animal shelters near me.
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  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    Invest. Help some family out. Buy myself a house. Go to school full-time. See the rest of this rock that we live on.
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  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    have whiskey & beer or several with dcfaithful
    spark a green cigarette or 7
    get the young man right :mrgreen:
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  • FrannyFranny Posts: 2,054
    Buy a house, give some to my parents, drop a chunk of it in my sons trust account, stash the rest, keep working and not tell anyone else (esp sibling) about it.
  • Sian-of-the-deadSian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    $650,000? That's about 400,000 in real money ;)

    So, £400,000:

    £50,000 would go to The British Hear Foundation.
    £10,000 would go to the RSPCA.
    £250,000 would get a lovely house that we could live in for the rest of our lives and raise a family in.
    £3,000 to set my disabled brother up in a flat of his own.
    £30,000 to clear joint debts (student loan, car on finance etc)
    £20,000 to set up my own business at home.
    £10,000 for the wedding.
    £10,000 to help out friends and family.
    £17,000 for savings for our children's future.
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  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Buy myself a house.
    Give some to help my family who are struggling overseas.
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  • pjfan31pjfan31 Posts: 7,335
    House and car. If any left, bank account, and a trip. Never been o/s, haven't been on a holiday since 2002. kinda sounds like my life sucks, but its not that bad.
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  • maj4emaj4e Posts: 605
    Pay off the house and give the rest away.
  • SENROCKSENROCK Posts: 10,736
    Bring the happy back to someone and put their mind at ease....at least for a little while. :)
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  • Green CircleGreen Circle Posts: 5,192
    yeah, pay the bills pay off the house...go on a nice trip with the wife and kids.
    "...And I fight back in my mind. Never lets me be right.
    I got memories. I got shit so much it don't show."
  • SENROCKSENROCK Posts: 10,736
    Boo Boo wrote:
    yeah, pay the bills pay off the house...go on a nice trip with the wife and kids.

    stop it. you and i BOTH know you would host a huge neighborhood party with unlimited beer til you ran out of money! :lol:
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  • 8181 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    blackredyellow wrote:

    I'd pay some of the principal on our house, but keep some just for the tax benefit of having a mortgage.

    what's the benifit again? You pay $100 in intrest and get $25 back from the feds?
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  • Green CircleGreen Circle Posts: 5,192
    SENROCK wrote:
    Boo Boo wrote:
    yeah, pay the bills pay off the house...go on a nice trip with the wife and kids.

    stop it. you and i BOTH know you would host a huge neighborhood party with unlimited beer til you ran out of money! :lol:

    Damn It ! someone else knows me not to be nice sensitive guy ! Be careful 10cers...TRUST NO ONE !!
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  • eyedclaareyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    My Grandma won SEVEN million dollars. Her strategy was to go from sweet lady to tight-fisted shrew. I'd probably push down beggars, orphans, lepers, and anyone with less money than me. It's the American way.
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  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    chadwick wrote:
    have whiskey & beer or several with dcfaithful
    spark a green cigarette or 7
    get the young man right :mrgreen:

    Fucking deal man. You and I and a lot of whiskey and beer.

    We have to find a jukebox with Dio on it though. I've got some drunken singing I need to get out.
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  • RYEzupSFRYEzupSF Posts: 6,003
    dcfaithful wrote:
    chadwick wrote:
    have whiskey & beer or several with dcfaithful
    spark a green cigarette or 7
    get the young man right :mrgreen:

    Fucking deal man. You and I and a lot of whiskey and beer.

    We have to find a jukebox with Dio on it though. I've got some drunken singing I need to get out.

    I like this idea. Although winning a million would give me cause to celebrate and reason to return to bong hits. :mrgreen:
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  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    RYEzupSF wrote:
    dcfaithful wrote:
    chadwick wrote:
    have whiskey & beer or several with dcfaithful
    spark a green cigarette or 7
    get the young man right :mrgreen:

    Fucking deal man. You and I and a lot of whiskey and beer.

    We have to find a jukebox with Dio on it though. I've got some drunken singing I need to get out.

    I like this idea. Although winning a million would give me cause to celebrate and reason to return to bong hits. :mrgreen:

    Aye. Let 'er rip. :mrgreen: :geek:
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    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
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    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
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