If you had a million dollars...

How would you spend it?

I thought this would be a fun question.

First, I would spend it on the furbabies, of course. The biggest cat tree in the world, a cat spa, weekly massage, and a sandbox for a litterbox.

Then, I'd buy a house for when I am an adult, a red converdable, and my own computer.

How about you?

id buy a house for john and i... a new car for both of us (maybe a HUMMER for me and the Tacoma he wants so bad ) a new digi cam, and i'd furnish our house with everything i want from pyramidcollection.com... lol

I'm boring. I'd pay off our credit card debt, take a trip to Australia and the South Pacific, enroll in flight school, and invest the rest.

I'd use it to buy a house here where I live...and with the chump change left over I'd buy a new couch. I'd probably be out of money after that. (Median home price in San Diego is ~ $600,000.)

HHHmmm If I had a million dollars, I would pay off my house, suv, car, and credit cards. Then I would remodel my basement, have a sun-room built with whirlpool, and I would take a long relaxing vacation with my family.

I would purchase a peice of land. a large one, build a house, and a barn, fence it in. get some more quality stock...and well. in short start my breeding farm all in one swoop instead of bit by bit like now.

These are all intesting.

Before or after taxes?

Well, I would first pay off all my debt. Then I would establish a no-kill cat shelter that would also give scholarships to veterinary students if they donated a minimum of 1000 hr of work for each year they are in school. Every state in the U.S. would have a chance to apply for the shelter grants. Then I would invest 100,000 of it to compound interest earnings, and reinvest in the priciest real estate I could find, giving the interest to cat rescue organizations. I would also buy a small house for me and my family, and build a wing for kitties.

You know I honestly don't know. Probably bank it until I was older!

Much like everyone else I guess, the new house, new car, go on vacation for a while, splurge on the kitty, not anything wierd though.

Modify my mustang to run 9s, buy a 2003 Cobra, a 93 Cobra R, a 95 Cobra R, a 2000 Corba R, 96 Porsche 911 Turbo... a house in Washington and then pay off all my debts for college tuition. Of course I'd save some for the kitties and my family

I find all these anwsers really neat to read.

I would pay off my student loan and other debts, as well as my fiance's. I'd also buy a new Jetta or a Mini Cooper, nothing too crazy there. I'd put the rest in savings for when we decide to buy a house, or possibly go ahead and buy a house. My fiancee's grandparents own several rental properties and their tenents love them so much that they have a long waiting list. The rental fees have long since payed off the mortgages, and now it's just like extra retirement money for them- this is a goal that we have for ourselves eventually. I'd also probably go for the $4,000 honeymoon in Jamaica!

I'd buy a good house (about 200k) with two bedrooms (three preferably) on preferably 10 or more acres... I'd buy a small afordable car that doesnt eat the money gaswise, heck an electric hybrid or whatever..

I'd buy stocks in oil, because its bound to just go up...

then I would split my money to go to different banks and collect interest.. maybe buy some diamonds so my money isnt all liquidated...

I would have to go a bit crazy with furnishings though...

I aboslutely love DARK natural wood furnishing.. ones you can see the wood grain and knots on, and hasnt been polished/coated in plastic.. oh yeah..

the yard would be fenced in..

and my cats would have a super room all to themselves!!!!

it would be cool.

hm.. maybe I also would buy a string of apartment housing and collect the rent... sounds like a good idea People are born every day, and they need homes..

I think I would like to take 100k and see if I could make more money splitting it up into 50k and making two CD's with a long life span....
the longer the span the more interest
(cds are where you put money into the bank and cant take it out for so many years or you get a hefty fee) if I could make more interest by dividing the money down more I would... of course there would be ap oint where I would make less.. but there is a simple math equation to figure that out (though I cant remember it at the moment but a graph is in my mind)

You could make alot of money off of cds..
for example.. if I put 100,000 in the bank for...30 years... at.... ten percent intrest every ten years.. I would make 30,000 by just letting it sit I could live off of that.. yeah.. heck I live off of like 9,000 now.. because I live with my mom and she makes only about 16-20k a year..

oh sorry.. I believe its COD's not CDS cirtificates of deposit..

I'd head straight to a financial advisor and have him help me figure a way to set up an account for my daughter (for college) and make sure she's set for at least the start of her adult life.

Then I'd pay off my mortgage. I LOVE my house so I'm staying put! Then I'd pay off my parents house & their cars. I'd fence in my backyard & have a pool put in, a nice one. I'd have my deck ripped out & put a bigger on in, one that can hold a hot tub somewheres on it. I'd fence in my neighbor's yard for them, since their 4 dogs run free, and my neighbor is pretty much my best friend now. I'd pay off all the taxes they owe so they don't lose their house.

Let's see... I'd keep my car cuz I love it and it's paid for, and I wouldn't want something I'd have to worry about. Prolly buy a boat and something to tow the thing with since my car doens't have the b@lls to tow anything.

Finish off my ugly, leaking, smelly basement... turn it into a colorful, eclectic bar.

I'd quit my job, but only after I found someone who could take care of my guys the way I do. Then I'd open a no-kill animal shelter in my city, that accepts all pets; dogs, cats, rabbits, rats, ferrets. Hire a vet to be on-site & hire only really loving people. Have adopt-a-thons every weekend where I get to stand in front of people & sing the praises of loving a cast-off pet.

And after the house is all updated & everyone is comfy, my shelter is running smoothly, hire a sitter for my kitties, and take my daughter to some really fun, awesome place for a whole week. Just me and her! And buy every stupid little thing we can think of.

Then come home and enjoy my paid off house & my new, fun job...

dang it is FUN TO DREAM!!! til then I'll just go swimming in debt instead of a pool, sing the praises of loving cast-off pets to my friends & strangers, and plan on a cheap vacation at some point with my daughter.

Seems to me I need about that much to spend on my sickly kitty.
Seriously, would be very nice to have a million $. Hey, I would be happy with a thousand extra.

A million doesn't go aa far as it used to. I'd sink it into some safe investments, that would pay a me a decent income and retire at 50, instead of my planned 62.

I just read an article about this and and initial investment of $1 million will pay $40,000 for the first year and then decrease by about 3% per year after that (adjusted for inflation). With my widow's pension, company pension and 401(k) income, I'd live comfortably and still have a bit of disposable income.

As long as I have a decent home, a good car, pets and shoes, I'm content.

If I won a million dollars or more I would build a house outside of the city then I would pay off our car and buy a new one to replace the old car. Then I would buy my parents a new house, pay off my mom's car and buy my dad a pickup truck since he's always wanted one.

I spend the half in organizated a TCS Reunion .. ...

Originally Posted by joanne511

I'd use it to buy a house here where I live...and with the chump change left over I'd buy a new couch. I'd probably be out of money after that.

(Median home price in San Diego is ~ $600,000.)

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So california here to, I lived in San Diego are you sure you can buy anything for that million The cost of real estate is the stupiest thing I have ever seen.
I'm glad I bought a new one 5 yrs ago I'd like to sell it, we could make a nice amount but where are you going to go
Actually I would have to really think about a million dollars, I don't know of anything I would buy at the moment, let's wait and see I imagne I could find a little something to get
If a million were enough I'd try and save all the kitty's and other animals