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  • #1

    What would you do if you won the lottery?

    Please select options all that might apply.

    UGH, I didn't allow multiple selections. Forgive me wasting your collective time with my incompetence.
    51
    Retire
    5.88%
    3
    Quit current job and pick a new job that I really love
    7.84%
    4
    Move to a new city, state or country
    7.84%
    4
    Build a much larger home
    0.00%
    0
    Give most of it away to charitable causes
    3.92%
    2
    Use it as seed money to start my own entrepreneurial enterprise
    11.76%
    6
    Buy a ridiculous number and variety of toys
    1.96%
    1
    Chase a dream like the PGA tour, a music career, or something else you wouldn't dare do otherwise
    1.96%
    1
    Secure the financial future of your immediate family
    41.18%
    21
    Spend most of your time traveling the world
    17.65%
    9
    Last edited by Indy Coug; 05-13-2010, 08:49 AM.
    Everything in life is an approximation.

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  • #2
    when you do the poll again make sure you speciify how much winning the lottery would entail. For example if I won 100k my answer would be different if I won over 5 million or above.
    "Be a philosopher. A man can compromise to gain a point. It has become apparent that a man can, within limits, follow his inclinations within the arms of the Church if he does so discreetly." - The Walking Drum

    "And here’s what life comes down to—not how many years you live, but how many of those years are filled with bullshit that doesn’t amount to anything to satisfy the requirements of some dickhead you’ll never get the pleasure of punching in the face." – Adam Carolla

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    • #3
      The assumption was going to be $100M, but I botched the poll design by not allowing more than one response.
      Everything in life is an approximation.

      http://twitter.com/CougarStats

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      • #4
        quit my job

        golf a lot

        get more involved in coaching youth sports

        maybe become a part time school teacher

        travel a lot

        invest my money conservatively and live off the interest

        possibly take a small portion of the winnings and dabble in some entrepreneurial interests, maybe day trading for the fun of it, maybe some real estate speculation

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Indy Coug View Post
          Please select options all that might apply.

          UGH, I didn't allow multiple selections. Forgive me wasting your collective time with my incompetence.
          No problem. We're used to it.
          If we disagree on something, it's because you're wrong.

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          • #6
            After putting enough away to ensure my and my families financal future, I would indulge my love of history and travel to Europe and finally return to Japan.

            and As I said in my intro, get a PHD in Byzantine History

            I may be small, but I'm slow.

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            • #7
              Build a custom house (not a big one) with as much green tech as I could find.

              Endow a scholarship with $1 million for Spanish majors to travel abroad at my college.

              Build a Humanities Building at my college (approx $15 million)

              Buy a house in Costa Rica that I could also use as a station for taking students there.

              Get lap-band surgery

              Spend a year's sabbatical visiting every Spanish-speaking country in South America, one month in each.

              Take my wife on a Grand Tour of Europe and pay an au pair (an ugly one) to come along and watch the kids for us so my wife could enjoy it.

              Completely redo the grounds at my daughter's elementary school and pay a company to come and maintain them, making them look perfect year round.

              I would also pay off the student loan debts of a couple of friends.

              Finally, I'd set aside about $3 million for retirement, and then put the rest in trusts for my kids.
              "Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
              The rest of us rarely bother to think about our actions." --Solon

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              • #8
                We'd start by buying a home, and wintering in the Coachella Valley and playing golf 5 months a year at this place.

                http://www.quarryinfo.com/

                We'd buy a beach house at this place, and enjoy the view.

                http://www.bandondunesgolf.com/

                We'd buy at house at this place, just for a change, for family and friends in Utah.

                http://www.redledges.com/
                Last edited by clackamascoug; 05-13-2010, 09:47 AM.

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                • #9
                  i'd buy cougarboard and make it a redirect to the jehovah's witnesses website
                  Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est.

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                  • #10
                    Indy are you working on some lotto project or did you just buy a bunch of tickets?

                    I used to think I would buy a AA baseball team and bring them to Eugene. I pretty much find baseball really boring now and so I wouldn't do that.

                    I set up things financially for my kids and mom. Gift money to my nieces and nephews every year. Wouldn't change my job at all, but I would probably buy a new boat and other toys. A suite at Autzen, seats near 71 at LES, more golf trips with friends as long as it didn't seem showy to pay for them. I wouldn't want my friends feeling like I was trying to big time them.
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by HuskyFreeNorthwest View Post
                      Indy are you working on some lotto project or did you just buy a bunch of tickets?

                      I used to think I would buy a AA baseball team and bring them to Eugene. I pretty much find baseball really boring now and so I wouldn't do that.

                      I set up things financially for my kids and mom. Gift money to my nieces and nephews every year. Wouldn't change my job at all, but I would probably buy a new boat and other toys. A suite at Autzen, seats near 71 at LES, more golf trips with friends as long as it didn't seem showy to pay for them. I wouldn't want my friends feeling like I was trying to big time them.
                      Just a product of what I was thinking about driving to work this morning when I saw a billboard showing the current jackpot amount.
                      Everything in life is an approximation.

                      http://twitter.com/CougarStats

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                      • #12
                        Two girls at the same time.
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                        -Turtle
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Surfah View Post
                          Two girls at the same time.

                          Duh.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Surfah View Post
                            Two girls at the same time.
                            You want your wife to have twins?
                            Everything in life is an approximation.

                            http://twitter.com/CougarStats

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Surfah View Post
                              Two girls at the same time.
                              I think if a guy were a millionaire he could hook that up too, 'cause chicks dig dudes with money.
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