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If you won the lottery.
daddo
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If money were not an issue, where in the U.S. would you live and what type of house would you have? What would you do all day?
I can't seem to make up my mind. I've been all over and like a lot of different places from the desert to the mountains. Most likely northern New Mexico in an over and under house (half in ground/half out).
I can't seem to make up my mind. I've been all over and like a lot of different places from the desert to the mountains. Most likely northern New Mexico in an over and under house (half in ground/half out).
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Bummer, dudes. You gotta play to win.
"What would you do if money was no object. What do you want to do with your life?
Make a list of what you want to do, and figure out how to do it with the money you have".
I'd have me a place to putt around on atv's (maybe one of those cool 6wd thingys).
My wife would want a "show house" but I'd still want something simple and usable (maybe we'd have seperate houses).
I just hope to get me a small chuck of land out in the sticks and put my little 2 room cabin in the middle of it.
Have a house built the way I wanted it(with the approval of the wife)[:D]
Buy all the guns that I ever wanted.
Nice cars and trucks, "not necessarily new".
Under the house have a 300 yard underground rifle range with all the amenities.
There are more, but it would take all day to list them.
Without having money worries why list them.[:p][:D]
Bolt
PEACE THROUGH SUPERIOR FIREPOWER
P.S. the doc says he can cut off as much as I need to get it all to fit comfortably, so I've given up on the briefs of steel concept.
Big Daddy my heros have always been cowboys,they still are it seems
If it was just a few million, I'd retire, get ona them motorhomes, and me and the wife would tour the USA.
But if it was a huge MegaMillions or Powerball win, here's what I'd do, seriously:
1. I'd set up a 'supplemental' retirement fund for ALL the cops and firefighters in my county.
2. As soon as a cop or firefighter could retire, the supplemental fund would bring his retirement pay up to the chief's regular pay.
3. When the chief got a raise, all those retired would get a raise too.
If I was to win one of those HUGE lotteries, there'd be lots of job openings around here!
"If they won't give us good terms, come back and we'll fight it out."
-- Gen. James Longstreet
Bolt
PEACE THROUGH SUPERIOR FIREPOWER
From there, you should fly your accountants off-shore to meet with you. Then, figure out how to shield your money from all the endless "old friends", "charities" and others that want your doe. Figure out a plan (accounts, etc) to support the rest of your family...then dissapear!!
For the rest of your life...never go anywhere fast...just enjoy!
Mark T. Christian
www.awbansunset.com
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. -Thomas Jefferson
Big Daddy my heros have always been cowboys,they still are it seems
Then it's off to Vegas with some young chick (not to get married) just for fun.
I measured it and cut it twice, and it's still too short!
Funny you should say that. We have already picked out the "general" area in northern New Mexico, and have designed the half underground house that we will build into the hillside, passive as well as active solar, so I can not help you there.
Unless you want 2 houses, one a little farther south for the winter and one in Montana (or?) for the summer. The house on wheels would be nice for a while too.
As for what to do.
1. Designed into the house mentioned above, is a greenhouse, that will take up some of my time. Raising just a few fruits, vegetables, herbs, and spices that I would use. Along with some house plants that I like.
2. I love to tinker in my shop. (mostly wood, a little metal) From small projects that only take an hour or so to complete, to larger ones that take days. There is no end with what you can do with wood. And there is nothing quite like standing back and seeing the finished product. I want to build a roll top desk someday with all kinds of exotic woods.
3. Along with reading books, I would try my hand at writing one (or more).
4. I would build a motorcycle from the ground up.
5. I would raise exotic pheasants. (again)
6. Design and build animated music boxes. Kind of goes with # 2.
7. Try to stay politically active, at least online, as I would be living too far away to commute to anywhere.
8. Setting up a small route of craft, woodcarving and gun shows, would take up some more of my time. You never know what kind of people you are going to meet, or what kinds of ideas you will encounter along the way. Gun shows would be selling wood items, like folding shooting benches and chairs, custom rifle racks with the buyers name engraved (or carved) into them, along with any other gun related (or just plain useful) wood products you can come up with.
The gene pool needs chlorine.
2. Buy everything i always wanted whatever that might be
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I went to the Patton Museum in Southern Cali and really liked it.
Then I would travel and aquire neat little items for display.
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A man who is in love with learning is a man who is never without a bride, for there is always more. L'Amour
There stood a log cabin in a meadow about 50 yards from a stream.
The sun was breaking thru cotton-candy clouds that left shadows on areas of the meadow. Near the edge of the forest was 20-30 turkeys doing what they do. The stream had a boulder bottom with lots of areas of whitewater riffs and current breaks. On the shore opposite the meadow was a bluff with forest on top. It truly looked like a landscape done by a world-class artist (God, in this case).
I can still see the scene in my mind just like it was yesterday, and if I hit the Big One, I'm gone.
What would I do? Hunt shoot, play music with colleagues that I would fly in once a week on my personal jet.
"Waiting tables is what you know, making cheese is what I know-lets stick with what we know!"
-Jimmy the cheese man
SALLY
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If they're still moving, put another round in them!
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My family owns 150 acres in the sothern part Ohio (hey I like it here plus all my family is here). It's also the highest elevation in that county. I'd build a kick * log/field stone house at the top of the land with a gigantic fireplace in the middle of it. I'd have to have a large wrap around patio all the way around it too.
I would then build the "disney world" of indoor shooting ranges with a 5 star bar and grill. I'd make sure that it had very private log style rooms for guests from out of town. I'd be sure to make it family friendly for all to enjoy. My facility would have a state of the art gun store. I'd also like for it to have a firearms museum that would have a study and an archive area for people to come and do restoration research. Certainly I'd have to have a staff of gun smiths to take care of the customers needs and to also maintain the museum pieces. I'd have to have a shooters and hunters supplies store in it too. Oh yea....I'd be sure to do a drawing on the Gunbroker forum biquarterly to offer up an all expenses paid trip to my outdoor paradise. All proven GBers would be entitled to a discount!![:D]
Ok, while I'm still dreaming I'd have to have a private jet (ceratinly equipped with one of those 30mm gatlin guns like the wart hog fighter jet has)[}:)] to get me, my wife, and what ever friends back and fourth from my second get away home in beautiful Montana.
Lastly, I'd enjoy the heck out of life![8D]
Almost forgot...I'D INVEST MY MONEY!
Then we'd have a base home and get 2 small homes - winter (Kansas to Utah) & summer (SC to Pa) - in a desired location.
I'd like to quit work, but, teach my profession to others and offer guidance. The rest of the money, we would like to anonymously help others in TRUE need. Not support them, but, those you always hear of that just need that little extra helping hand to help them over the hump.
"the difference between the almost right word and the right word is like the difference between a lightning bug and a lightning bolt" - Mark Twain.
"Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, not liberty to purchase power."
Benjamin Franklin, 1785
R/
Dave
How different the world would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician. - Henry Miller
Lottery = Pipe Dream
Lottery = Poor people spending their grocery money on that Pipe Dream
Lottery = More money for schools, thats a crock of BS
Lottery = State lottery administrator has a 200,000 dollar a year job
Lottery = Advertising of millions of dollars a year. Payable to relatives of the lottery administration.
I understand someone has to win, but there are sure a bunch of losers compared to winners.
I may not always be right, but I am never wrong. Magnum Force