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  • #31
    I like this AccountingDrone. Probably the smartest thing I ever heard about lotteries was from a woman being chided by her friend at the c-store I worked in for buying a ticket: "It's worth a buck in entertainment for the daydreams."

    I haven't had a problem buying the occasional ticket since.

    For me: buying my wife's family farm from her mother so its succession to her is no longer up in the air and bringing it up to snuff is the big ticket item. Believe it or not, my "absurd comfort" item is the same as yours ---a new and high end mattress. Crazy how expensive those things are, isn't it?

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    • #32
      For me personally, a house, built the way I want it. Gaming room, library, good entertainment center, room for parties, all that jazz. huge grounds for gardens. A secret passage or two, just for funsies. I don't need a pool, but a jacuzzi is a must. I like to boil myself on occasion. The kitchen is the most important part. Tons of counter and cabinet space, with lots of plugs. A good gas stove, and one of those stacking ovens (so I would have a total of three ovens.) Proof box and rack for cooling. an island would be nice for additional workspace. Marble on some surfaces (for chocolate) and butcher block on others (for dough.) Walk in pantry.

      Of course there's the strictly financial aspects. Making sure that the money is wisely invested so that it won't run out. Providing for my health and my friends and family. Gifts. Donations to charity, possibly starting a charitable foundation. Starting scholarships. And calling up the people that made sure I wouldn't go destitute getting my back surgery and paying back that money, and seeing how I can make it happen for somebody else.

      Finally, my business. A cafe and bakery, built to my plans, with lots of seating, comfy chairs, outlets everywhere, meeting space, and the best back room ever with adequate room for storage, office, and employee room. With a kitchen attached, so I can do all the baking and food prep in house. Since I'm already filthy rich, I'd be able to sink a ton of time and money into the business up front, making sure that I hired an awesome staff, trained them to within an inch of their lives, PAY them well, have great healthcare, and implement bonuses and profit sharing programs. Therefore I would be able to have employees that know how to do their jobs well, and would be proud and invested in my business, making for happy, productive people and great service for my customers. And since we wouldn't have to put up with bullshit from SCs, it would mean that we could bend over backwards to enhance the experiences of our REAL customers, making the service even better. And I could make bread and pastries all day and be happy as a clam.
      My webcomic is called Sidekick Girl. Val's job is kinda like retail, except instead of corporate's dumb policies, it's the Hero Agency, and the SC's are trying to take over the world.

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      • #33
        One of the things I'd do if I won super-big - like, ludicrously expensive big - is to build runway overrun ramps at my city's airports.

        Ever been down a steep mountain road and seen truck braking ramps? The ones that are sand or scree or some other material that WILL stop a runaway truck?

        Engineers have come up with the same thing for planes - but noone's implementing them because no one airport 'knows' they'll have enough runway overruns in a given year to warrant them.

        But runway overruns kill people, and cost a lot in repairs to planes and the things they hit. And they're so damn easily preventable. The overrun prevention ramps are really just specialised piles of sand or scree!

        Once ONE airport - or one city - has overrun ramps and other airports and cities can study the cost/benefit analysis of them, they'll spread. At first to places where there's a highway off the end of the runway; or buildings, or a steep drop; or some other clear danger. Eventually to other airports. Hopefully, most or all airports will either have an overrun ramp, or a long stretch of smooth, unobstructed terrain.


        And with any money left over, I'll make a nursing home intended for adults - as in, between 20 and retirement - who need it; but who are competent to run their own lives in every way except physically.
        Seshat's self-help guide:
        1. Would you rather be right, or get the result you want?
        2. If you're consistently getting results you don't want, change what you do.
        3. Deal with the situation you have now, however it occurred.
        4. Accept the consequences of your decisions.

        "All I want is a pretty girl, a decent meal, and the right to shoot lightning at fools." - Anders, Dragon Age.

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        • #34
          Hmmmm if I had a crazy amount of money and could do just about anything, I would get my passport (Never had need for one before) and decide where in the world I want to live. Frankly I'm sick of this country and wouldn't mind being somewhere else. Once I decided I'd buy or build a house. I'd want lots of room, lots of storage, and lots of great electronic gear . I'd want several bathrooms, each with a huge jacuzzi tub. Separate shower, the kind with all the different shower head in them.

          I would also have maid service so I wouldn't have to deal with the housework myself. But I would be nice and pay them an actual decent wage not slave money.

          Then I would probably decide on a second place to have a vacation house and build one there .

          I'd also want some kind of nice vehicle and a driver (again he'd be paid enough to be worth it).

          Then I would explore having a business to continue the money coming in and beyond that would be stuff like clothes or whatever.
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          • #35
            I thought of one other thing that I would do, probably even before finding a seamstress to make my bras. I would find the best child custody lawyer that I could find and get custody of my stepson. Full total custody. Then I could go pick out bra fabric.

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            • #36
              I'd definitely buy a house, somewhere with actual space to work rather than living in a single room with my bed shoved partly under my drafting table.

              I'm one of those boring people who would invest most of it or stick it into savings though! My job is so unpredictable and the mental security of knowing I could pay for groceries each month is really the most I could ask.

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