Si j’étais riche…

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If I Were a Rich Man...

You win a lottery, consisting of a post-tax lump sum of $100,000.

There are rules and caveats to how you spend the money. It must all be spent selfishly on yourself (including a limited number of friends and family).

You can't donate it to charity, or to any other cause or person.

You may buy material objects, if you wish, or spend it on services and experiences. If you buy material objects, they must be for your (and your family's, if you're so inclined) personal use, and may not be resold for at least 5 years. You may not donate any objects obtained with this money.

You must spend the money within one month. Any left over will go to the Bush/Cheney '04 campaign.

If you are REALLY having a hard time with not being able to donate to a charity or other cause, go ahead and assume the original prize was $1,000,000, and $900,000 has already been appropriated, per your request, to whatever charities and causes you like. The last $100,000 must be spent on yourself, however.

[XNASA]

1. Real Estate

In the form of a Summer cottage. On a lake in SW Michigan.

[GOPisEvil]

2. Easy...

...I'd use that money to fund the purchase of a house. It wouldn't cover the costs completely, but it would make a huge dent, so that my payments would be low. I'd also use about $2k to pay off the remainder of my debts.

[supernova]

3. Better house

- 42 inch plasma TV w/ satellite

- Couple of really expensive restaurant bills, probably with my family.

- Spend the rest on a trip. Memories last a lifetime.

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. Some nice appointments for the home

A littel art buying spree (originals only), some excellent china and silverware and stemware for serving 16, an ENTIRE SET OF COPPER COOKWARE!!, I'd commission some hand-made furniture (though not much) from true furniture artists, and computers and LCD screens for every room, and some extra touch LCD screens for the hallways and bathrooms, etc., so I can make a totally bitchin' home network, I'd get some custom suits made and some custom-made shoes (finally, shoes that adjust for my differing leg lengths!) and maybe even commission some new cufflinks, adn then whatever is left at that point, say the last couple thousand, I'd buy more cooking equipment and serving things, and invite friends over for some good food and good drink and celebration and being together.

Food, and sharing it in beautiful surroundings, is important to me.

[Squeech]

5. Wind farm

That's my blue sky dream these days (since well before the blackout): to buy up an old family farm in New England or upstate New York, and install a bunch of windmills. Dunno if it can be done on $100,000 (less the price of one vintage Gibson acoustic guitar), but it would be fun to try.

As a practical matter, however, both my house and my mother-in-law's house need a bunch of work done, so if the money fell in my lap now, that's how I'd spend it.

[ima_sinnic]

6. real estate with road frontage suitable for secondhand shop

on a road out on the fringe of a large town, ruralish area, with space to rent to other secondhand sellers, like a small flea and farmers market. Home out of sight of the road, on the same piece of land. Some area would also be developed as a venue for low-key outdoor concerts like fiddlers contests. If I had 100K I would be sure to use it in some way that would sustain me from then on (I'm a nonconformist individualist who hates working 9 to 5).

[Semi_subversive]

7. A $50,000/nite prostitute

Then the remaining $50,000 can be used on my funeral when my wife finds out what I did with the other $50,000.

[cmf]

8. Yeah, $100,000 is easy.

We would rent out our condo and use the $100,000 to make a down payment on a house with a shorter commute. $100,000 doesn't go a long way in Seattle.
Now, if I had to spend a million on myself, it would be harder to come up ideas.

[Lady President]

9. My plan

1. Pay off school loans
2. Buy an ice cream cone


That would just about take care of all of it. :(

[northzax]

10. easy.

wine. as the good people at Sublime once said "I finally got all that alcohol I can't afford"

I'd split it four ways: 25,000 on 2000 Bordeaux (Lafite, Margaux, etc, runs about 200 bucks/bottle)

25,000 on 1988 Port and 2000 Port.

25,000 on 1984 Bordeaux

and then whatever it cost to get a bottle (preferably magnum) of 1957 Mouton Rothschild, with the Dali label. The wine ain't legendary, but the label is damn cool.

the remainder would be splurged on New Sealand Pinot Noir and Oregon Pinot Gris.