If you won the lottery...

[jprime84]

This thread is a product of me being bored at work, and the "congrats waffles" thread.
Since "lottery" can mean different things to different people, lets just say that you end up with $25 Million US after taxes.


Heres what I would do:

1. Quit my cubicle job
2. Buy really nice gear and start a small photography business, more simply for my enjoyment than to make money.
3. Pay off my student loans and my parents house
4. Buy a house, a new car for myself (either an Audi R8 or a Nissan GT-R) and my wife
5. Take a lot of vacations!

[BabetteKD]

1. Pay all of my college loans (will be over $75,000 next semester)
2. Repair the front of my car. I COULD get another car, but mine is comfy.
3. Buy an apartment.
4. Buy a DSLR
5. Take a vacation ♥
6. Either take my dog from home (although at this point she's probably recognized my brother as master) or adopt a dog.

[jprime84]

wow, 75 grand?? where do you go to school?

[candleman]

quit the cubicle..

Audi Rs4 for me,
Old-skool mustang for my wife
Buy parents & siblings house each.
2x D700’s, home studio, and all the f/2.8 glass my poor back can carry
Take a few years off to do some part time fine-art study in Photography
Get a pilots license
take a few months to tour Italy & Canada
Spend 6 months of the year in each hemisphere.. who needs winter after all ?





.........we're still waiting to hear if its twins Waffles

[Chip]

I'd likely stop working at my current job, do some sort of work with kids, pay of my mortgage, start some sort of charitable trust, and take quite a few vacations (with my family and camera gear). Nice to dream.

[RexK_Cozumel]

I would invest it into some stocks. There are a lot of really solid companies right now that you can buy at a huge discount.

Other than that I have everything I need. And there is little that I want bad enough that I can justify the cost. (If there was I would have already bought it) I dont think having 25 million is enough money to spend it unwisely. Now if it was $25 billion then that is another story...

[candleman]

Lamborghini Gallardo.. *gurgle*

[windrider86]

First thing is first. I all ready have 3 Harleys but I would need a few more. Next a BIG log cabin tucked away in the mountains, with a paved road to it.
Buy my kids a new house and a new car.
Open a big fancy studio and of course nice big fancy new pc's and equipment.
Buy my own magazine so I can publish all my own stuff, when I want to

[Jim Bryant]

Give half to my wife and kids, buy the new and latest Macbook pro, a few more drobos, Sat. phone, Lecia M-8's and lenses and a big sailboat and sail off into the sunset

[private]

I would think of the Bare Naked Ladies and sing the song - "If I had a million dollars...I'd be rich" THEN give 1/2 to our son (no touchey till he's 30) and then buy a small studio and not open June through the beginning of Sept - then Travel all summer long with my new camera gear.

P.S. I would need an interior decorator for the studio - it took me 6 months to pick tile AND granite for my kitchen...LOL