If you win the Lottery on Monday, Where will we find you on Tuesday

[XS22J8R]

There was a time when winning the lottery was a dream of mine. But in recent times when I started doing retirement planning, and keep putting off my early retirement aspirations (first 55, then 60, now I'm 62) mostly because I haven't figured out what I'd do with my 24x365 days a year free time, I have come to realize I am at a point I'm too set in my ways to make some big change in lifestyle due to a financial windfall. I have enough trouble keeping up with the cars and trailer I already have, I don't have a desire to live in a 5000 sq ft house at this point, no desire for a big boat or a Lambo now. Or even a vintage P51 Mustang which was a dream of mine for many decades.
In fact seeing a financial planner a couple years ago showed me I have well more than I need for my meager lifestyle when I retire.
I was badly injured in an accident 33 years ago. Fortunately my health insurance from work paid almost all my medical bills and disability for the time I was off work recovering. I never talked to a lawyer since I am philosophically opposed to their greed and our jackpot based legal system when it comes to liability.
Around 10 years after the accident I became aware of a design defect that seemed very likely to have caused my accident. In fact in 2001 I was interviewed by a reporter and my accident discussed in an article on the front page of the Wall Street Journal about the alleged design issue! Of course the statute of limitations was long expired by then. But later I asked a lawyer friend of mine that knowing what we know now, how much would I have probably been awarded if I'd filed a suit after my accident? He said 2-10 million I would have got, around 30 years ago when I was around age 30. I think of that from time to time, was I dumb not to talk to a lawyer and end up with a 7 figure judgement? What would I have done with the money, would I have been responsible with it, or become a screw up like so many end up doing after getting a big windfall, a young guy out blowing it all on coke and hookers?
I lean toward thinking I was better off doing what I did by not seeking legal advice about a lawsuit, even if product liability was responsible for my injuries and some permanent disability.
I think winning the lottery is the same thing, it would likely cause more problems than bring joy. I won't be winning lotto so no worrying about what I'd do the next day if I won! Be careful what you wish for.

 

[Budnicks]

Still here,
but build/enclose back car port/my shop finally,
no expenses spared, with 2 lifts, a 4 post & a 2 post
2) 12'x12' rollup door, couple of windows,
a pit on one side, short side, electrical water & air thru-out
a nice thick concrete driveway & thick floors, fully insulated !!!

boat, will be gone & the RV is already gone

 

[Charles Cook]

I would march my *** right into work and put in my 2 weeks notice.

 

[HEMIB]

Already got a good accountant maybe a triple black hemi cuda

 

[Cop car wagon]

If I win the lottery, I'll be here with the biggest free ad.
Then you guys can fight over it and save my wife having the big auction when I die.
Of course, I'll keep my favorites.

 

[Ron H]

I would march my *** right into work and put in my 2 weeks notice.

Lol, unless you have been treated fairly like having a decent boss, nice employer, with enough win, I wouldn’t even show up other than to remove my personal belongings. Immediate ‘notice’ I’m gone. Well, I don’t know, when I got my walking papers as the company I was with was going down the toilet, a good friend being there longer, was assigned my job. Helped him for a few months via phone, or over a few beers, helping him figure out the new assigned duties he got. Did it for HIM, only as a good friend. Over the decades, had bosses who were stellar, and then those who were turds. I’ve digressed, back to the regularly arranged post.

 

[kiwigtx]

I would march my *** right into work and put in my 2 weeks notice.

I thought you were self-employed.

 

[68BabyBlue]

Yeah, when I was younger used to have the dream to stop working, when I was still working. Being retired now and fortunately set pretty well for what we need at our age now, doesn’t mean much. We were smart enough to donate to our retirement funds, keep debt-free when we could afford to get there. We’ve given a lot of cash to our kids as they’re in the stage of life where they can use it now, not whenever we might croak.

Yeah, being able to buy a 6-figure ride of my dreams would be sweet, actually could swing it, but damn, I had two of those back half a century ago I sold to my regret, and would have a tough time forking out that amount remembering what I sold them for. Got my ride I spent endless hours restoring and more money doing it than expected, so there’s that. Can’t see parting with a ride I put so much B,S,& $$ doing. It’s like part of my soul now.

MO, one’s AGE creates a lot of new perspectives…being old. Do I have 5-years, 10, maybe 15 now? About it...

Well put. At our age, one’s health has more value than things money can buy. Heard that from the experts at every seminar I attended the last decade I kept my law license.

 

[moparwacko]

I would buy the largest contiguous property in or near the Smoky Mountains, build a 6 room cabin and a 24 car garage.
I would then seek out the most rusted Mopar project cars I could find. Then hire @eldubb440 full time and watch miracles happen one by one.

Oh, and maybe, just maybe give the Mrs. a nice horse barn.

 

[Detective D]

1. Getting visited by some men in suits to tell me what I am going to do with their money now that they awarded it to me.

barring that, in fantasy land where this thread started:
1. Finding out how to not pay taxes on all the interest and such like the other richie rich folks do
2. At my local credit union turning the pile into NOT cash. Not all anything really.
3. Working with WELS to see how much I can give them for mission work without our gov't having a seizure and declaring war on them
4. Gathering the heirlooms and other personal things from my property, removing my name from the phone book, post office stuff, etc.
5. My place now is sold as is
6. I begin the search for the appropriate place to build my new secluded, modest, inpenetrable fortress.
7. Oh and the fully equipped shop
8 Oh and the Road America style road course where I will spend the rest of my days running whatever car/truck/thing I decide I fancy to get, fix up, tweak on, supe' up, etc.

Other things would include an extremely overpaid family chef, a second home in another climate from the first(modest) and a nice gun range. Probably about 60 acres of farm land for me to rotate crops on to give away to local farmers done with the type of equipment I grew up with.

I am the type of person that could never work a day in the rest of my life, never get bored, and never sit down. My interests exceed my finances a hundred fold, and would take me two lifetimes if I had started them when I was 12.
Particular interesting projects I would do:
Build a proper 90's era Magnum powered Chrysler pony car complete with 5 speed and 9 1/4 rear end
SRT-10 swap a Challenger, just to see
Viper powered Cordoba
Other brand stuff probably too. Twin turbo Honda S2000 sounds interesting, for instance.

What I would NOT do (or where)
Any casino
Any large city
Talk to anyone outside my immediate family(plus wife's family) including cousins for the most part. No, I do not need friends. No, I don;t need anyone to race against on my track. Or to show my shop. Or to have a beer with. Wife and family cover all that.

 

[GTXDAN]

I'd have the nicest garagemahal money can buy, and pave my driveway. Buy my POS neighbor out and hire a dozer to level the place and build the garagemahal there. Then pick up the Viper ACR I've drooled over for years. No immediate family left except some cousins, so I would spot them all a million apiece and say "I love you, but when it's gone, don't come looking for more". Maybe buy a new motor home and travel some more.

 

[DeltaV]

I would march my *** right into work and put in my 2 weeks notice.

Where did the red X go?

1) call them on the phone or send them an email.
2) no notice...bye guys, it's been real.

 

[Scott Engelhardt]

I would make sure my family is taken care of. Then I think I would need a ranch. I would have to have some donkeys, mules, long horn cattle, and dogs. I would have to have some off road trails for off road vehicles.
I think I would want my own slice of heaven.

 

[eldubb440]

I would buy the largest contiguous property in or near the Smoky Mountains, build a 6 room cabin and a 24 car garage.
I would then seek out the most rusted Mopar project cars I could find. Then hire @eldubb440 full time and watch miracles happen one by one.

Oh, and maybe, just maybe give the Mrs. a nice horse barn.

lemme get this straight....... you hit the lottery; and I have to work; on a piece of crap, no less ....... what a pal

am I building the barn, too?

 

[eldubb440]

Where did the red X go?

1) call them on the phone or send them an email.
2) no notice...bye guys, it's been real.

the cheap bastard just wants that last paycheck

 

[moparwacko]

lemme get this straight....... you hit the lottery; and I have to work; on a piece of crap, no less ....... what a pal

am I building the barn, too?

Only the best for you my friend.
I'll even buy Pete's perv van for you to stay in, and a river to park it next to.
As for the barn, some Amish guys can handle that.

 

[kiwigtx]

lemme get this straight....... you hit the lottery; and I have to work; on a piece of crap, no less ....... what a pal

am I building the barn, too?

'whacko would keep you well supplied on sausage & pepper sandwiches.

 

[turbine68rt]

I'd like to go into work like nothing happened, tell everyone what I really think of them and walk out laughing.

 

[thehemikid]

In a meeting planning the construction of my new Mega garage/warehouse.

That and then hiring a crew to finish my other 11 cars.

 

[Cojohnso1]

I understand that it takes 10 days to actually receive prize $$?

I would continue to work and work on my cars and chores until confirmation.

I've been lied to before. Lol