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What would do you if you won $4 million?


I would travel to interesting places and buy a nice size house.

"Jealousy leads into stupidity." M.M.S.

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You all want the same things.
It seems to me that there is only one (selfish and shallow) person in the whole wide world and you are his clones.

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I would use it to pay for my heart operation.

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wow this post started in 2003 and people are still posting in it .

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I think this might be the oldest thread on IMDB that didn't get deleted... I don't know if I imagined since threads that dated back to 2001 or 2002, or even 2000.

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First I would buy a nice house and furnishings. A nice car. A house and car for my son. Invest some so that I have enough to retire on.

There are a few people I would also like to help out. My next-door neighbour is always thinking of others first. Giving money and support to others while living a modest life. I would love to get her out of her rented unit and buy her a house. It is the least I could do for a giving person. Another person I know is worried about losing his job because he has a huge debt and a young family to support. I would give him and his family enough to get out of debt. Another person I know can't have a baby and is desperate to become a mother. She wants to try IVF treatment but can't afford it. I would pay for the best treatment in the hope it will make her dream of motherhood come true. There are a few more people I would buy houses for. They are still renting but can't afford their own home.

Last but not least. I would pay back every cent and more to those that helped me when I was down on my luck. There was a time when I didn't have a job and I did get help when I needed it. Bless em!

A promise is a promise. ;)

PS: And I wouldn't quit my job. I would continue working. In my line of work I help people. I wouldn't give that up for the world.

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UNITEDCONDOM05!!!!

LOL!!!!

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Buy a 5-10 acre vineyard in southern Oregon to make wine and brew my beer, build my ultimate shop and restore American musclecars and create a beautiful Japanese garden where I could display my bonsai collection. Buy the surrounding property and give it to my children to live on.

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Excellent ideas so far.

I'd give half of it to my parents (they deserve it), a quarter to my sister, and put most of what's left into savings and investments. The rest I'd use to go to a foreign country, and attend a nice grad school.

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I'd send my husband and kids a lovely post card from a far away place... just kidding.

I would pay off bills, buy a motor home in the USA and a house in Australia -- so my family and I could travel the States and would never have to live in the Winter cold again. I would start trust funds for my kids. I would gift certain members of my family with much-needed funds. I'd set my husband up in his own business, which he's been wanting to do forever. I'd donate at least a mil to charities I've already chosen. And then just live the rest of my life without having to worry about money.

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I'd do two chicks at the same time


if you don't know what movie that is from i would also use the money to hire a boutny hunter to kill you

-=QuinN!

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OFFICE SPACE

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well first i would buy my brother a honda accord four door automatic probabbly black. he ahs had bad luck with one crappy car to the next and no car at all. he is now borrowing one of our cras and we have to share what cars we have left. so he deserves his own car. if he is in debt or owes any parking or traffic tickets its taken care of right now by me. i would pay someone whatever amount of money it took to give him a real job, a good job, the catch is they cant ever fire him. maybe working at the car plant in his town. thats a good job and i know he can do it. then i would get his butt out of the crappy apartment he is in and get him a cheap yet reasonable apartment and teach him how to live responsibly yet still be happy with it. but he ahs to pay for the apartment on his own with the job i get him.
lets see. my parents just did their kitchen. so they dont need anything for their house. but maybe they need help paying for it. so i will give them whatever they still owe. my dad is reitred and hating it. he wants a new car or truck. he thinks that will make him happy. we think he is crazy. but being retired he cant afford it. so i will get him whatever car he wants and then we wont have to share cars and then the car my brother is using of ours can be sold and he can keep that money for starts when he moves into his new apartment i am getting him. he will need money for food and stuff so thats what that will be for.
then i would get my sister a lap top computer becasue her desktop sucks and they are using my computer now as the family computer. that way she can take it with her to college. college happenes soon enough for her. i would pay for her college for four years but we are not sure she will make it that far yet. so i will setr the money aside in a bank account that she cant get into until after she graduautes. that way she is stillt aken car of becasue the loans she willt ake out wont need to be paid until she finishes anyway. then i will buy the family a lap top computer too so they wont get mad that my sister took the laptop with ehr to college. i will have to teach dad how to use a lap top instead of a six year old desk top computer, but that cant be too hard.
i would get my sister a go phone. that way no one ahs to worry about her using it for ewverything and running up a bill. she is the reason we dont do cell phone. we cant afford it becasue of her. after the minutes run up she will have to pay for it herself, but at least she will be happy she has a go phone for a little while. then maybe that will be enough to convince mom and dad to get a cell phone too. i dont know, but if i have to pay for that too i will.
then i will pay my dads old job whatever it takes to un retire him so they can start making some moneya gain and he can be happy. 35 years is too much to throw away. and he is still young in my mind. so he needs to work.
then i would go to college for four years and finally make my dream of being a teacher come true. i will have all the money in the world, they cant tell me no. who cares how dumb i am, let me waste my money. justa s long as i get to go to college. then after i do that i will celebrate by making my other dream come true. i will have my own town house. not a house, thats too expensive and its just me. i dont need a house, but i dontr want to rent an apartment for the rest of my life and i certainly dont want to live at home for the rest of my life. if i have a real job like a teacher than i deserve to have a real home like a town house. finally i will be happy. i will geta dog and my sister can come and visit him whenever she wants to. when she finsihes school she can have him. its not fair that i grew up with a dog and then she came along and the dog died and mom vowed never to get a dog again. whats a childhood without a dog. she is almost an adult now, but she is still a kid at heart. i know she wants a dog. so she can have the one i get.
then i would give to christian childrens fund, red cross, miracle kids network, st judes, make a wish, womens cancer research, and to my church.
then i would build a building and put in the same place as our church so we wouldnt have to share rooms for various things and none of the nights would be in coflict with each other. there should be a room for everything and if there isnt then i will build a bigger and better church or add on or whatever is cheaper.
then everyone is happy.

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wow!... well, i'll pay someone to live for me!



nah just kidding!


I'd pay off my house and renovate it... sell it, get the money back, and more... buy 2 houses, outright, buy furniture for both homes, 4 cars, 2 for me and my girlfriend, my sister and one for my parents. I'd buy lots of movies and t.v shows, movie and t.v show soundracks and movie posters, as i collect that stuff...(i no, i'm a loser...ok!) i'd go to Vegas and stay at the "Bellagio" Hotel for 10 days, and then go to the Hilton for 10 and maybe another two for 10, perhaps Four Seasons & The Venetian...

Hopefully be able to direct, produce and write a movie i have in mind... and also, hopefull be able to cast who will star in it...!

there, all that in a nutshell...

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I would invest 1/4 of it in a steady stock like gold, put another 1/4 into an account, give another 1/4 to my parents, spend 500k on a modest place to live and use the rest to open my own business. But if only...

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I will actually pay half of the money to the people who scratches the lottery ticket for me.

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