If you won the lottery, what would you do with the money?

I would make it an endowment to hospital for sick children.

But a goddamned Senate seat AND a “Supreme Court” Justice.

A bargain. Only a couple million each. I’d still have plenty left over.

^buy, goddamit!

Colonics for everyone!! you get a colonic, and you get a colonic.....CA-LONICS!!!!!!!

I would pay for mental health services for all the trannies and nonbinary people so they accept their birth sex.

I'd keep it a secret. No one knows how much I earn now; no one would need to know if I won. I'd live my life as normal for about a year. Same home, same car, and just try to enjoy the knowledge that I have big bucks in the bank. Then, during that year, while learning how to manage that amount of money from experts, I'd see if, with all that money at my disposal, do I REALLY want that big house of my dreams or would it be a waste? Do I really need another car? I could quit my job and most would assume I'd retired but I think it would be critical to keeping the money to just live life as always and taking delight in knowing I had no money worries other than keeping it all secret.

Endow many professorships at universities in the name of the multiple teachers in my life who have made indelible marks on my life.

Establish a conservancy for the grey fox, the feline canine, to make sure that their habitat is maintained and they are studied.

Create an overarching and comprehensive charity to make sure that gay and lesbian kids who are kicked out of their homes are able to finish high school and enter and succeed in college.

Establish an oral history project to record and catalogue gay history and what it was to be gay in the pre-AIDS era.

And many other things… I’d have to win $500,000,000 to get it all done but I’d spend ever cent. The honor of people knowing what I’d down far outweighs what I could enjoy with the money myself.

Buy a house for me and houses for my immediate family. Maybe even a vacation house for me. Make sure I was set up to live comfortably for the rest of my life. Comfortably, but not extravagantly.

The rest of various charities including gay youth and LGBT centers in big cities.

1. Quit my job. Yes, I'd give 2 weeks' notice.

2. Buy an apartment in a high-rise while I shop for maybe something else.

3. Buy my sister an apartment or house. (Out of 5 siblings, she and I are the only ones who don't own real estate.)

4. Take trips to Paris and Japan (separately).

I’d throw a party and invite everyone I knew.

I'd keep it on the DL, if I won.

Buy a dozen eggs.

Go south to the states for PAID medical treatment so I know the doctor will give a shit.

Buy citizenship in a civilized country.

1. I have no living family otherwise I would help them out with the money.

2. I would first donate half the money to charities which are either wholly or mostly focussed on specifically helping gay people.

3. Buy a really nice home (not a fuck you sized mansion - something reasonably sized but very comfortable) on the beachfront in a quiet costal area which is close enough to a large city. This would be major because I am a lifelong renter with no possibility of buying a home.

4. Upgrade, repair, replace everything.

5. Plan lots of overseas trips.

6. Go back to university and study ancient Greece/Classical studies if that exists.

7. Enjoy the rest of my life!

Move to another country. I would keep the money as secret as I could, too.

R7, we have a grey fox here, in my suburban Cincinnati neighborhood.

I’ve seen it twice. Once late at night when I let the dog out in the fenced yard. I looked out the back door to check on her and she was near the back of the fence (about 10 yards away). She was looking at something, then I saw this head peer around the gatepost. I thought it was a coyote, so I grabbed the BB gun I keep by the back door and went out on the porch.

The motion light was on and the “coyote” started bouncing - jumping like a rabbit - across the yard. I took a shit and missed. When it turned to look at me, its eye shine was green - like a cat’s or a fox’s.

I was confused. Coyote eye shine is red like a dog. But it was big. Leggy. Bigger than a normal coyote, but I didn’t know what else it could be, so I looked it up.

Since then, I’ve seen it twice more and the neighbors have also seen it. Nobody believed it was a fox until I showed them the Fish and Wildlife link.

Now that we know, we report the sightings to each other and the ODNR.

Sorry for the tangent.

I'd buy a Broadway theatre and have an absolutely stellar production of Follies that ran 24/7 around the clock.

Set up a trust fund for my 50 favorite people and keep about 50 million for myself.

A mommy makeover!!!!!

Stripper tits Inflate O Lips Pussy tightening Anal bleaching

And…………………..

The stretching of my thorax so that I can take thicker, juicer loads!!!!!

Pay off the debt for my Momala.

R14 Real talk, that’s what I would do too. Does the UK jail you if you overstay a visa or travel there for vacation on passport?

First thing I would do is tell no one if possible. That amount of money makes people you know think you owe them something for existing. I would help out the few people I know who need help and am on good terms with. If asked, I would only assure them that it's not blood money and not explain further.

I would invest.

I'd start a science store fully aware that at best that sort of place in today's ignorant America is breaking even. But be the change you want to see etc. A childhood dream fulfilled.

Create a goofy golf course. Another childhood dream fulfilled.

Create the app I want to create. I have good tech skills, but am not superhuman and don't have the time.

All of this while enjoying my time traveling the world and tasting its beautiful men.

R21 Talk about being in a cult!

I'd buy Epstein's island and set it up as my solitary retreat from the world.

Well I would do a great deal of what R6 would do. I would try and stay away from people, crowds, etc.

I would hire my favorite singers to perform just for me.

I wouldn't retire. But without a money care I could run a firm where I represent people in trouble for free.

I would start a foundation that would give to film restoration, animal protection, homeless gay children, homeless vets( a lot of family members who are or were vets), and help those people with medical bills they can't pay.

I wouldn't buy a bigger house- just a better one, and a vacation home, and an apartment in New York so I could go up anytime I wanted.

I would travel. But if I went back to Paris I know I would end up staying.

I would then leave the rest to my nephews and nieces who made me a better man by being an uncle.

Money doesn't change you - it just magnifies your strengths and flaws.

I would take care of my immediate family first despite our estrangement. Everybody would get $1 million. I would hire a top-notch lawyer, accountant, and personal security person .

I would not make any major changes outwardly to provide evidence of my fortune. I would not buy a new car I would stay in my current home for at least one year and continue to live my middle class lifestyle while I plan the future.

I have thought about this before , after one year I would likely buy property and build homes throughout the US in at least 4 locations with moderate to low impact from global warming that offer seasonal climate advantages. I would rotate between the houses seasonally and when I am not in residence ,rent them out via Air B&B donating the proceeds to non profits I am aligned with .

I would buy a Rivian Truck and locate one of the last production models of a Camaro Convertible with 450 V8 as my pleasure vehicle. I would follow in the footsteps of Barbra Streisand and have my cat cloned. I would visit Donatella Versace's cosmetic surgeon for a consultation. I would hire a top notch female lesbian athletic trainer to get me in shape.

I would avoid locations known for their prevalence of "A" gays such as NYC, DC, SF, Wilton Manors and Palm Springs and the like . I would travel from an adventure perspective and not have a focus on luxury and exclusiveness.

I would love to arbitrarily reward service people who have been consistently nice to me and acknowledged me as a human being with a "tip" of 10k that would be given to them off duty in cash to avoid splitting it with their coworkers and having to pay taxes.

I'm always shocked when rich people commit suicide. Honestly if I won even a million, I would wake-up singing and dancing every day of my life. Poverty is the only thing that brings me down.

Lifetime membership in the "Rentboy-of-the-Month Club."

Open cat and dog shelters across the country. A place where they can roam around and play and have good lives. No cages.

Leave the US. Fucking leave this fucked shit to the people who voted for it. Live like a fucking king somewhere were the money is 10X more valuable.

Hookers and cocaine.

^^that you, Junior?

We've all thought about this....

I would start a non-profit to deal with anyone who is asking for money...get them off my back.

I would buy a house in HI and a house somewhere in the mountains (currently have a condo in West Hollywood). Give money to family and friends who have added value to my life.

I’d pay for college for the kids of a friend of mine. Buy a house for my sister.

Go back to my old high school and give the foreign language teachers enough money for a month’s sabbatical in the country of the language they teach. Then the next year, I’d fund every student who got an A or B after their 2nd year studying a language so they could go on one of those 2 week sponsored trips to that country. Because when I took French (4 years) it was a requirement for university and an “intellectual challenge”. At no point did a teacher in my blue collar town ever say “because some day you will go to Europe and be glad to speak it”.

Then I’d buy up medical debt in my state. I guess I’d buy a condo but really I’d spend a lot of time traveling.

That much money? Well. Probably give a third of it intentionally to loved ones and friends. Probably give another third of it intentionally to charity. Then live comfortably on $20M or whatever. I don't need much. I have some increasingly debilitating health issues and they are not solvable by wealth. So... sex does not tempt much anymore, nor does travel, nor does having a really big house.

With $200 million in hand, post-taxes, I would pay off my bills, finish my house, buy another property for work purposes, give my siblings and friends a million each, give $100k to my nephews and nieces, and some cousins, set things up for netting $350-400k per year, and put the rest into a system where I had full control of gifts and grants, and distribute the money (no applications, just my discretion) with the intention of spending it all before or at the time of my death. I'd probably use a fair amount for land purchases for conservancy and wildlife purposes.

Oh, I'd also do a nice grave for my partner and me. Probably a nice pyramid for him with room for his afterlife treasures, and a black stone for me.

Hire an accountant/lawyer/financial advisor, full-time, to help me donate, invest, and spend it in the most tax-efficient way.

[quote] I would make it an endowment to hospital for sick children.

I think the children have had enough of you trying to give them your endowment.

The second you start splashing it around by buying houses for family, setting up educational funds, or paying off other people's debts, you may as well take out a full page ad and ask people to come begging for money 24/7 until the day you die or until the day people who think they're you heirs decide to hurry along their inheritence.

Get a tax and investment adviser. You don't need to do anything immediately. Just get a sense of what you need to do and begin prioritizing. There is NO need to get all fancy and min/max taxes and investments. Unless you're trying to build a legacy for future heirs and create generational wealth, you don't need complex structures - which also create opportunities to be Madoff'd or the old sitcom trope of having your business manager steal all your money and run off the the Caymans.

Talk to a lawyer. You may want to hold your money and investments in a trust or multiple trusts. Consider setting up a residual trust which allows for a beneficiary to receive income from the trust but gives the princple to a charity or other organization after that beneficiary dies. Make sure your will, health care proxy, and power of attorney are in place.

As much money as $200mm sounds, it is VERY easy to blow through it with a few bad investments, a few ridiculous properties, luxury car purchases, and giving it away. Remember houses and cars need to be insured. Property taxes need to be paid - you could be paying upwards of $75K annual property taxes on a $10mm home. If you guy absurd luxury cars, insurance will cost thousands a year.

I wouldn’t tell anybody except my attorney and my money manager. I’d figure out the rest later.

I'd be typing this from my modest home on whatever island in Scotland that I would have purchased.

Upgrade my apartment. Travel more. Bankroll my friend’s (modest) artistic endeavors.

Other than that, I hope I have the willpower to just live comfortably knowing money is no longer a problem. No crazy purchases.

Oh, and NO. NEW. FRIENDS.

I'd become a real asshole.

Cat and dog rescues. I’d donate to existing ones to determine if I wanted to open one of my own. If not, I’d just donate to existing ones.

Also gay youth organizations like the Ali Forney Center in New York.

I would fund cooperative living houses at universities that would be nearly free and include room and board, very good kitchens and dining rooms, and regular renovations. They could be complete rehabs of older houses or new builds, and should be extremely safe and comfortable and have lowish carbon footprints. Each location would have considerable power over their operation but also be member or an overall association joining all of them. They would be in a number of countries and they would all have guest rooms so that members from one coop can reserve to visit and stay over at others, and even do semester exchanges. They would range in university quality from elite campuses to very scrappy ones. There is need for such housing and community on all campuses. It would include universities in the developing world, not just rich countries.

I would invest in not-for-profit housing. Let's see if we can get people off the streets, even the unattractive people.

I’d grab a change of clothes and go to a hotel. Not sure what I’d do after that. I’d need to think about it.

I can see a lot of DLers ending up in straits, even after a windfall. I'm always surprised at how many posters say they'd give their friends $1,000,000 each. That's a recipe for disaster.

I don't have any personal needs for a large amount of money. As an old film fanatic, I would donate it all to film archives and ask them to restore old films and release them on DVD or online.

I'd rescue senior dogs and cats.

I'd buy houses with big yards and fix them up to house the senior dogs and cats in a home environment i.e. sofas, people beds, comfy chairs, windows to look out, etc. and hire Vet Techs to care for them round the clock. Upscale retirement homes for dogs and cats with the finest of amenities, food, treats, cuddles and Vet care. Locate these homes near retirement communities so retirees could volunteer their time to come sit in rocking chairs and cuddle and pet them.

Travel and then a retirement house away from the minions

Whatever I could to ensure the extermination of the human race.

People are intrinsically and irredeemably evil.

They deserve to die.

Oh, yeah, and like go to Mars and shit.

And hop around like a big fucking X.

R50 classic Egyptian cinema needs a massive preservation and restoration effort. Si jamais.

[quote]I'm always surprised at how many posters say they'd give their friends $1,000,000 each. That's a recipe for disaster.

Most people on DL have one friend if that.

pnp to death

I'd donate to The Shriners so I can get an adowable blanket.

You can do that for a lot less than this, r56.

I don’t know.

This thread is reminding me of the episode of Ab Fab: Patsy is disappointed to find out that her once-fabulous sister was now running a cat sanctuary.

Get a halfway decent apartment with central air.

I'd like to travel, business or first class. Stay in decent hotels. Hotels are so damn expensive these days. I'd like to have semi-long trips. I'm always rushing home to get back to work. It takes a while for jet lag to wear off. Plus, it's not so fun to travel when every day is packed with activities and you're not getting enough sleep.

I'd pay off all my debts and those of my friends and family (plus give them all $$$), I'd donate millions to the causes I support, and I'd move to Canada.

I would buy a large country house in Northumberland, England where my ancestors came from. Then I'd be lord of the manor where my ancestors were serfs.

Someone who could choose to live anywhere in the world would voluntarily choose to live in Canada? Color me shocked.

Why the hell not (Canada)? If you're an English speaker and want to get out of the US but still visit family, etc. Seems like a good choice. Canada's a huge country with lots of cool places.

Where would you live, R65?

I think DLers would also be shocked, shocked I tell you, that people's views on taxes and other fiscal policies will shift very far right from where they are now.

I'd spend a couple of million for fun at the same time I was investigating a rock-solid diversified investment portfolio.

Never worry about money again. It would be nice.

Let's just say our current political landscape would be differently populated by January.

R67 well that's because they now have money and don't want to part with it. Obviously there's a balance. People who don't have money need it. To eat, roof, transportation, money is essential.

We act like it's not essential but if you don't have it you basically die a lot quicker. Real quick. It's inhumane not to have a universal basic income for life's necessities.

I honestly don’t think my life would change that much. Perhaps I’d establish a foundation; one way or another, most of the money would go toward causes I care about. I like where I live (I own a condo in Palm Springs) and see no reason to move but it would be nice to have a summer pied-a-terre during the heat of summer. My one indulgence: a neck lift.

I’m not convinced of that. Most of us posting in this thread are not well off. To suddenly have more than enough to live comfortably for the rest of our lives? I’m not going to begrudge the IRS. I’m also not about to buy a 15 room mansion and a garage full of Porsches.

^ sorry that was for r67

Don't tell anyone and collect the winnings through a trust/financial attorney.

Buy houses for my relatives or pay off their mortgages.

Buy a 1968 442, red, manual Hurst shift, white interior and convertible top. Deep dish chrome wheels

Buy a house in Devon or Dorset, UK, so I have a place to run away to.

Huge donations to Boston Rescue Mission, Shriners, St Jude's and the Windham County Humane Society in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Put the rest in several banks (FDIC regs) but save out a little to spend on the Wheel of Fortune slot machines at Foxwoods.

Buy a miniature bull terrier.

I’d buy a big house where we both could live.

^^^forgot to add: Ride up the Nile on the SS Sudan like Agatha Christie did.

Add a second floor with skylights to my house.

All day long, I'd biddy biddy bum.

Get the hell out of this country ASAP!

Charities are scams. I'd spend it all on myself. Actually I'd save most to live off of. But I would have modest homes in LA and NY, and spend a lot of time at the low-limit tables in Vegas.

Based on a $200M take home. I'd take 10% of it to live on. Invest that 10%. If it throws off a five to 10% return annually, that could be eg. one to two million a year. I'd live on that and try not to touch the principal. That'd probably be bit difficult in the exciting first few years, but not once you're established if you haven't gone too crazy with recurring expenses. The other 90% would be invested and hopefully growing at a similar or greater rate returning nine to 18+ million a year which could be used to fund a charity, the startup of a dream small business (property developer), and a few family members and friends.

I'd buy a really nice, but not over-the-top apartment, maybe at Hotel des Artistes on West 67th Street and entertain often.

I'd fund my own projects on stage or film, not lavishly, but enough to get them made. I'd most likely give my friends who are struggling money to pay their bills and have some breathing room.

Somebody in CA is not claiming a 200 million dollar win. Someone like me who might buy a ticket for the heck of it and promptly forget about it. Maybe even throw it out.

Take the cash option, paying taxes up front. Then, take 10% and put it in an interest-bearing or MMA account. The rest I would put in a index funds that follow the S&P 500.

This if fun.After helping family and friends I would buy some land and hire architects and contractors to build an exact replica of that gorgeous Hopkins Mansion-a gothic victorian in SF that survived the 1906 earthquake but burned in the fire-Dream on…

[quote]Take the cash option, paying taxes up front. Then, take 10% and put it in an interest-bearing or MMA account. The rest I would put in a index funds that follow the S&P 500.

I think there's a lesson in Brewster's Million (the original or the Richard Pryor version). You need to get the absurd spending out of your system.

[quote]I would visit Donatella Versace's cosmetic surgeon for a consultation.

Wait, what, R27?

I'd divide it in 5 portions. I would give three away to siblings. I would keep a portion for myself, and I would set up a charitable foundation, as well as give out smaller portions to friends in need.

How much is Mediaopolis?

I'd give money to all of my family and most of my friends, and leave the U.S.

I'd finally live. And probably die.

Spoil the hell out of my parents. Whatever luxury they can dream up is theirs. They will not go crazy, but might want a sports car.

Secure my siblings' futures through trusts in hopes of them not spending it all on partying.

Lift my extended family out of poverty. Like if they want dentures or drug rehab, a safe place to live. Things that will help them climb out.

Secure retirement for my partner and myself. Do what he wants with his family financially.

Travel. I'd pay my favorite nieces to travel with me, staying for months at a time just soaking up the local life, not necessarily tourist attractions.

Also spoil my favorite nieces and nephews.

Then charity. I would love to ease suffering.

I think i would make an excellent rich person.

I locked myself out of my house today, and this thread made me want a lottery ticket. I bought some Mega Millions and a scratcher. I won $50 on the scratcher. Now I just have to win the bigger prize. Unfortunately, in California, I can't be anonymous if I win. At least I have a good relationship with my sisters and parents, so I don't need to worry about them trying to scam me. One of my sister is already pretty well off with her techie husband who has an undisclosed amount of bitcoin and multiple properties.

r86 - I am past the absurd spending stages. Let's say after taxes, I get the cash option and 200 million. I would take 20 million in an MMA or checking(s) account to get FDIC insurance (let the banks figure it out). Then, 180 million would be invested in S&P 500 index funds. Given the returns on the S&P, I would never need to touch the principle.

[quote]20 million in an MMA or checking(s) account to get FDIC insurance

So, you're going to deposit money in 80 banks? FDIC is only $250K per bank.

You're not going to buy a nicer place to live? Doesn't have to be a mansion or luxury home, but in NYC it would take a $3-5mm to get a nice 3bdrm / 3000sqft place in a decent neighborhood, then decorating. Seems silly to have that much money and not do a modest upgrade, even if you didn't Brewster $10mm to get it out of your system.

I would actually set up non profit community centers for elder gays. I am not being cheeky either.I’m serious. There are so many guys who have aged out of being “gay good looking”. It is already hard enough for us to date. But guys 45 and older- the center would be a place for them to connect with other guys, not just romantically either. It would catch on and popular indie musicians will play at these centers. Then all us millennials would popularize it and a become a whole big thing for gays from all generations.

Stop shopping at Macy's.

The photo of Donatella was photoshopped and her surgeon isn’t a magician-he did the best he could with what was there-oy.

Things you would never hear about

r95 that is what a personal banker is for to figure out how to protect my liquid assets. The 20 million is for me to use - buy a home or homes or just VRBO around the fucking world if I want to. My taste levels are fancy but not flashy. I doubt I would even burn through 1 million a year.

After buying a Jag-You-Are F Type coupe I don’t know.

I would preserve a fraction of it for myself. The rest I would be donating it to individuals and families that really need it. If I could do that for the rest of my life, It would be better than anything else I could possibly do with the years I have left on Earth.

I would head to Bloomingdales. I would ask them to assign a sales associate to me and I would go all through the store buying clothes,, furniture and bedding. Then I would buy 100 $10,000 gift certificates and book a WDW trip for 100 of my family and close friends an put one of the gift certificates in each room. We would have 2 weeks of touring the parks, amazing meals and a cruise in-between. It would be epic. Then I would set up a trust fund for my great nephew and niece, then I would purchase a place to retire with full time care around the clock. I would donate a lot to my favorite charities and life would be a fucking blast.

Spend a year traveling, one of the trips I'd take my whole family with me. Then after getting back home, buy a couple of properties, one at home, one abroad, then enroll in the schools I always wanted to go and dedicated my days to studying. I would leave some money to my niece and nephew, and also the charities of my choice.