Powerball up to $145 million

[priceyfatprude]

I know this has been asked before, but there are new people here & all that jazz.

What would you do if you won the lottery?

How would you spend $145 million?

Do you have it planned out?

How much is that per year, after taxes?

Would you give any to your family? (I'm remembering the story about the woman who won 91 million. She was the youngest of 7 kids & her brothers & sisters started treating her like their own personal bank, asking for house & car payments every month.)

Would you give any to charity, and if so, which organization?

Anything else you'd like to say on this fine Saturday night?

[noxxville]

I still have my "O" Magazine dream. On this weeks cover: Oscar de la Hoya

[Gatsby]

What would you do if you won the lottery?
Hopefully not pass out.

How would you spend $145 million?
Pay off all my student loans, buy a house in Santa Fe. And another house in Key West for my mom.

Do you have it planned out?
Naw, it'd never happen. There's no lottery in Oklahoma. Southern Baptists rule the world here.

How much is that per year, after taxes?
Me no add.

Would you give any to your family?
I'd give a large portion of it to my family. I might even divide it up evenly among my mom, sis, and I.

Would you give any to charity, and if so, which organization?
I'd give a lot to charity. Maybe Amnesty International, or Greenpeace, or the Sierra Club.

Anything else you'd like to say on this fine Saturday night?

There's no lottery here in Oklahoma because they say it's immoral. (No tattooing, either. Go figure.) But here's something ironic:

I go to the biggest public college in the state - Univ. of Okla. And there's a huge parking problem. And every year, they sell more $200 parking permits than they have parking spaces. Anyone can buy a permit, but the odds are against you for actually getting a space. Isn't THAT a lottery??????

[noxxville]

Maybe Ollie North

[priceyfatprude]

Omarosa

[sparticle]

I'd travel, finish college and buy a place in northern New Mexico. I'd start a charitable foundation for single mothers who needed to finish their educations. And I'd buy a little store with an attached coffee shop in Taos and hope that it became a central meeting place for folks. And I'd get a Jeep, season Diamondbacks tickets and I'd take my mother to Ireland for as long as she wanted to stay. And I'd help all my friends who have money problems.

Amen.

[Aphrodite]

I would open my spa. It would be amazing. My family and closest friends would be 'employed' by it and as such get paychecks for all the research required.

I would have a JEEP of course. My dream vehicle. A Rubicon. Navy over pearl.

I would donate a percentage each year to a certain set number of charities. Greenpeace and World Wildlife Fund being two of them.

Earthday celebrations would be Huge events.

Just imagine!

[bealeblues]

i'd buy a share of the dodgers

[sparticle]

I wouldn't buy Indians tickets because if I had that kind of money I'd never come back here again unless I had to. But I'd still be a fan.

[zenbabe]

I would pay beale, xerocs and ze to be my personal love slaves.

[topcat]

i could do a lot of good with that kind of money. the one thing that i would definitly do is buy a huge house so i can take in a lot of foster kids. and for myself a big coop in manhattan

[Gatsby]

Originally posted by sparticle
I'd travel, finish college and buy a place in northern New Mexico. I'd start a charitable foundation for single mothers who needed to finish their educations. And I'd buy a little store with an attached coffee shop in Taos and hope that it became a central meeting place for folks. And I'd get a Jeep, season Diamondbacks tickets and I'd take my mother to Ireland for as long as she wanted to stay. And I'd help all my friends who have money problems.

Amen.

Taos. That is my favorite place IN THE WORLD. I have a friend with a cabin there (well, "cabin" is an overstatement. No plumbing, no electricity, built on the mesa) and all summer long friends would just flock out there to camp and hang out, a constant rotation of cool people. I spend a month out there one year, camping, chilling, working on art.

Taos. Yeah. Wow.

[madasacutsnake]

I would travel the world. My yacht is currently beached so it looks as if it would be on a catamaran, a really big one. I'd probably have to out a jeep or a donkey on it too because I've always wanted to see the Lost City of Petra. I'd probably spend a lot of time skiing as well, Colorado figures highly since Mork and Mindy and Leukerbad in Switzerland:



I'd spend more time doing childbirth education and be more politically active in that area than I am now due to time constraints. The O mag idea is good, but given the subject matter, it would have to be called something more like OOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAYOUFARKINGBATARDIHATEYOUOOOOOOOO

I would help children the world over. $145 mil would go a long toward something.

I really like smoked salmon. I'd probably eat a lot of that.

[nycwriters]

My friend in Australia would play the lottery with numbers we both comprised and I'd play them up here. When the lottery got realllly huge, we'd have fun imagining what we'd do with it.

One of the coolest ideas to come out of our daydreaming was to be anonymous Santa Claus' ... we'd find a needy family and buy them a car and ring the bell at Christmas and run (watching from a distance) -- watching them come out to find a new car with a red ribbon around it and a note telling them it was theirs. We'd find some great kid and anonymously pay their entire college education. We'd use the interest from the money in the bank to perpetually fund this... the cool thing, for us, was the anonymous part -- the feeling for the recipient that they would believe they had a guardian angel -- and could take on the world.

[xerocs]

Originally posted by zenbabe
I would pay beale, xerocs and ze to be my personal love slaves.

like you would have to pay me....