Soooooo. If I were by chance to give YOU around $5MIL. What exactly would YOU do with it?

I would take back the flag. Make things right again between us...ok a golden fleshlight and an ipad2....then id open up a soup kitchen and feed homless hookers and familes. Fancy ones are living good anyway.

5 Million aye

Well, lets just say I would help my family out as family is very important to me.

I would also create a center to help ppl get off drugs and also to create a housing unit for those who are homeless.

I hate to see people with little to nothing as I have been down that road myself.

I would like to help others in hopes that they will help someone else as they were helped.

But hey, we can all have dreams.

Ty OP _

Sometimes its nice to do some dreaming here and there to get our minds off the daily stresses.

Be where you are or you will miss your life.

There are a lot of wonderful ideas submitted by people on this thread. Just reading through some of them. Pretty neat stuff.

This is kinda easy. I'd buy a modest house for myself and my kids. I would also buy property and have a house built in one of the "safe" areas of the country. I'd prepare for the future but not at the expense of living for today. I've read about too many people that are so obsessed with conspiracies and TSHTF that they forget that they are alive NOW. If you can't enjoy the wonderful world you have now how will you ever survive in the world that possibly awaits us.
Both my parents died from cancer and no amount of money I could donate would cure the disease so I would donate to the local hospice so that they could help make cancer victims last days bearable and possibly pleasing. My friends mother was in horrible pain and only had her son by her side. My parents were blessed in that they were taken care of, not in pain, and had all their loved ones by their side. I know I'd rather look at my kids when the time comes than look at a bare wall in a hospital somewhere.

Hey OP, howsa about 10 million so me and spud here can form a partnership?

I WOULD BUY MY NEIGHBOR A NEW HOUSE.
You would understand if you saw it.

I would pay for my daughters college education,
and my son's.

I wouldn't really need the rest, so would set up
funds for kids who can't get scholarships otherwise.

LOL!:-)

Oh and I would buy a miniature cow.

I'd use it to start a campaigne to enlighten the public about The Federal Reserve, IMF, World Bank and all the other central banks to start.

Charity starts at home.
Help out those that I know and see regularly.
There is a homeless man and woman I see when I go to Detroit. They are at the I94 exit and Livernois. They look genuine so I give them a little something when I see them...$5, $20. They always light up like a Christmas tree and say God Bless you. That is a great feeling to help someone that really needs it.

If I won 5 million I think I would get them a place to live and set them up. I'd then help my immediate family and circle of friends.

"I would buy", good lord people WTF is up with the need for stuff?

I will live totally free, to nowhere and beyond and take with me those who want to.

I would start with the children of the world. So many have nothing, no home, no parents, no education, no pets and no one to love them and no hope of a decent future. Somehow I would invest the money into a new organization that touches on young lives in such a way that they have a chance at some happiness and security.

I can't tell you how to accomplish the above, because it would take some planning. I can tell you that present organizations are giving the top monies to themselves and only a tiny amount actually reaches those in need. This would have to be remedied.

I would definetly make it rain and I ain't talkin bout HAARRP...unless I persuade tptb to send a little downpour here in my homestate to quell those wildfires. That would be nice.

Not a difficult one.
I'd spend a couple of grand organizing a press-conference first.
Then I'd BURN THE LOT!
Have always had F.A. money.
Get by just fine.
Rather show people what its real value is.
Oh, I'd by a carton of beer beforehand too - think I'd wanna be drunk and smiling to cope with the shrieks of horror...

Buy a cattle ranch - hire help and retire.

For the first 4 million, I would surprise 4 people (each person would get a million) I know who struggle financially and have remained honest and kind-hearted. The last million I would use on my own family. That's the truest answer I can give.

Me, I'd add to my farm. Make it completely self sustained so I could help family, friends, and the downtrodden as things get worse with the global economy.

for what its worth, i would buy some land for a massive garden of vegetables,fruits,herbs,fish and chickens to feed everyone in my community.
the people who use it may tend to it if they desire,or not.
i would troll for sponsors and donations also to spread it to the whole country.
its stupid that people go hungry in this country.
its getting worse all the time and nobody seems to be doing much about it.

Um....it's MONEY and that's what you DO with it?

Every time you are using it-you are buying something, whether
it's land, peace, war, food, education, etc. It's a medium
of exchange, nothing more.

I think this is what I would do, also. It's kind of a nice break, dreaming dreams, isn't it?

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self-sustaining skyscraper green house co-op in an island somewhere warm.

Google was started for around $100,000.

I'd start one or more companies that have that kind of potential and keep the ones alive that we're on the road to making it until they could fly on their own.

Split it with my children so they wouldn't have to struggle so much. And donate to homeless people and animals!

Id have a super sweet 16x2-1...and hire michael bolton to perform...all the hits. Whatevers left to produce a new album with guest singer micheal grimm winner of americas got talent. Two powerhouse male adult contemporary voices on one track. I smell a grammy.

Wow my husband and I talk about this all the time.

Pay off our house.
Pay off my parent's house.
Set up college fund for the children.
We would move to a central american country.
Open up a free medical center for the people there. Providing basic care and specialized care for pre-natal, drug treatment, HIV awareness and treatment. We love the Smile Train charity but would like to start our own on a small scale so that the money goes directly to the children that need it not to a non-profit huge organization.
Then I think we will sleep for awhile and then travel the world looking for ways to help the people that live there.
We would be like the peace corp only just us.

It is fun to dream and to think that instead of working to live we could do good things for people that will have lasting effects far past our own existance.

The best thing you could do is just put it in the bank and wait until you need something. The problem is that the more things you accumulate, the more tied down you get and the more responsibility you have towards them. With that comes added stress to you life.

People suddenly want to know you and be around you so that they can take what you have. You have to fight off a ton of suddenly nice people and new friends who just want to tear you down for a piece of the action.

Having money is a big headache. It is better to have good morals and good character. That will do more to help you have a good life.

Money is essentially power. If you are not strong enough to be able to control that power, it can destroy you.

Okay so you make a good point. Let's take this a little further. What if all Hell broke loose and money was no longer a means of exchange. It is just man helping man. Really giving, do you think all these people saying they would do this and that for a stranger would view giving in the same way? The best thing everyone would have to offer is love, not physical stuff and outrageous charity because stuff is just stuff. Can't take it with you when you die.