hooked 0 #26 October 16, 2002 Easy one.......Skydive! Then, I would spread the wealth. J -------------------------------------- Sometimes we're just being Humans.....But we're always Human Beings. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sebazz1 2 #27 October 16, 2002 Quote If you won the Lottery I'd donate all my money to charity..... What charity you ask..... (TSSF) The Spazz Skydiving Fund ... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nws01 0 #28 October 16, 2002 I would buy a huge Tour Bus and put the DZ.com Logo on the side and tour all the dz's hitting all the competitions, boogies, etc. I would also have the Power Puff girls with me. And Spy38W would be my pilot and take care of Sunshine. I would have Dove there too. Sebazz would be our chauffer. He gets free jumps too. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jimbo 0 #29 October 16, 2002 I'd probably quit my job, it's funny, a few years ago I would have thought that I'd want to work, now I realize that I work only to have money for the fun things in life. Of course I'd have to invest some of it to make sure I had something left in 10 years. As for the rest of it... maybe do the motorhome thing and see the country, make stops at any DZ that happened to be in my path and change my path to make it to the DZ. I'd have to make stops at Carhenge and the worlds largest ball of string, things like that. I think I'd like to have big boat and sail around the world. I would make sure the people are love are debt free and leave them a little something extra. Whatever's left over I think I would just use for whatever caught my attention at the moment. They say that money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a certain amount of freedom, I think I'd like that. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
homer 0 #30 October 16, 2002 If I were to win the lotto I would start off by buying a brand spanking new rig and canopy. I would give some to my family and church, buy a new car and invest the rest of it. I may take a trip to old Mexico and get drunk on some very old tequila. While a get a lot of suckey suckey from a local seniorita. CSA #699 Muff #3804 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
usmcdannyboy 0 #31 October 16, 2002 i would keep my job and let nothing bother me...no more stressing out of any kind. give to a good chairity and play the stock market. and buy a small dz with a big freaking plane I am the light my son...What you seek is fire Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #32 October 16, 2002 Well, I'd pay off my parent's house, I'd buy an X-box, pay off my CC debt, invest half of it. Then continue going to school so I can get in the military.--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
coho21 0 #33 October 16, 2002 Ok so when you look at it I don't think a $5M lotto is actually that much money. First to get the most out of it you need to take the cash up front. When you do this they automatically cut it in half. So start with $2.5M Then THE MAN wants his cut at least at 35%. Now you're at $1.6M Then if you plan to quit your job and live off of this amount you need to invest it all and pray for an 8% return per year. This cuts you down to $130K/yr. Then when you take this out of your investments THE MAN wants to take another cut on the profits you made so now you're down to... counting on fingers and toes...hmm... About $84.5K/yrWHOA, Never mind... bye the rig, hop on the bus, make a pit stop past Tijauna, and crack open the beer I'm tourin' the country... YEAH!!! J YSD#0009 J YSD#0009 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
trilete312 0 #34 October 16, 2002 Depending on how much it was, wouldn't it be cool to be the owner of your own Otter?----------- Ready, Set, Gooooooo Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FallinWoman 1 #35 October 16, 2002 I would invest the money in CDs...and live off the interest...that would be more than I make a year teaching. I would quit my job and play for a couple of years. Then I would probably try to get my old job back. I taught at a private school (the pay was shit). The classes were a max of 12 kids. I would teach part time, and play the rest of the time. Yeah, I would buy a second rig, pay off the credit cards, pay off the house, buy a new car....I might even think about helping a certain person pay for his nursing degree... It is fun to think about life with that kind of money! Anne ~Anne I'm a Doll!!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spy38W 0 #36 October 16, 2002 QuoteDepending on how much it was, wouldn't it be cool to be the owner of your own Otter? Yeah, thinking of what I would do with the money after I started skydiving my first thought was to buy a DZ. Now after being around for a (very) little bit, I have decided that I would much rather buy a perpetual jump ticket, or a bunch of jump tickets plus a semi fast airplane. I think it's more trouble than it's worth to own a DZ or plane, unless you were to own a specialty aircraft that would be suitable for touring DZ's, aka Mullins King Air -- Hook high, flare on time Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
seedy 0 #37 October 17, 2002 Quote Ok so when you look at it I don't think a $5M lotto is actually that much money. First to get the most out of it you need to take the cash up front. When you do this they automatically cut it in half. So start with $2.5M Then THE MAN wants his cut at least at 35%. Now you're at $1.6M Then if you plan to quit your job and live off of this amount you need to invest it all and pray for an 8% return per year. This cuts you down to $130K/yr. First post by someone who actually has realized that you don't get all that money and that it really doesn't go that far when you take all the taxes out of it. But...............it is nice to dream, ain't it? I intend to live forever -- so far, so good. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cajones 0 #38 October 17, 2002 Yea, you're right. If someone offered me $5mil, it just wouldn't be worth all the trouble... No, wait! I'll take it. I'd open a DZ, until the money ran out. The laws of physics are strictly enforced. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dumpster 0 #39 October 17, 2002 The answers is simple- Win the lottery - Buy toys- Go on permanant vacation- Go from DZ to DZ in a semi-crappy van and just jump my ass off- Maybe once in a while treat myself to a Motel 6, but only if it's within crawling distance- Sometime during that trip the wife would probably jettison my ass-- (or I'd cut her away-) I'm such aa bastard- Easy Does It Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jraf 0 #40 October 17, 2002 Bill, as former owner of a bungee crane: They don't make them large enough for BASE. That is unless you want to jump without a rigjraf Me Jungleman! Me have large Babalui. Muff #3275 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jraf 0 #41 October 17, 2002 If I won the lottery I would: Purchase a whore house in Nevada with real classy babes so I could charge big spenders out of their witts Purchase chopper to offer sex in the air to big spenders Employ the flying Elvis team for the hell of it Jump once a week with all my naked whores as advetizing for my whore house Employ four full tome Norwegian lesbians who know how to sing, to feed me grapesjraf Me Jungleman! Me have large Babalui. Muff #3275 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bobsled92 0 #42 October 17, 2002 A VERT indoor tunnel(3000 hp)quality in PA._______________________________ If I could be a Super Hero, I chose to be: "GRANT-A-CLAUS". and work 365 days a Year. http://www.hangout.no/speednews/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kris 0 #43 October 17, 2002 QuoteBill, as former owner of a bungee crane: They don't make them large enough for BASE. That is unless you want to jump without a rig. Depends on your definition of large. I've seen a couple of videos of crane BASE jumps. KrisSky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stacy 0 #44 October 17, 2002 Quote Employ four full tome Norwegian lesbians who know how to sing, to feed me grapes You seem to have a recurring theme of lesbians feeding you grapes. Perhaps you should revise that to something more realistic such as "4 skydiving women feeding you pies?" I don't need to win the lottery. Clay promised that when he gets his super dooper spy job he will hire me just for laughs at the top of the pay scale. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jraf 0 #45 October 17, 2002 C'mon allow me some dreams. Four skudiving women are more likely to knife me and take my money and buy beer (that's how much I have) dump my body and take my rig. I will for now stick to the Norwegian lesbians. jraf Me Jungleman! Me have large Babalui. Muff #3275 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
outofit 0 #46 October 17, 2002 tell the people i work for to go straight to hell AND THEN GO GET DRUNK! It is better to be dead and cool than alive and uncool! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quade 4 #47 October 17, 2002 Lotto . . . $5m? Hmmm. Buy $5m worth of my company's stock, get a seat on the board and fire some of the a-holes that have made my life a living hell. I figure that could be fun for a few days. I assume the stock would retain, if not increase slightly in value because of the corporate restructuring.quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhreeZone 20 #48 October 17, 2002 >I'd open a DZ, until the money ran out. So after Taxes and etc from 5 mil how are you going to keep ther DZ open more then a month? Me? I'd stay at work for the benifits, move next to the DZ, buld a house that rivals the Cribs on MTV with at least 2 hot tubs, a pool that is wired with fiber optics to show the stars and a comet like that kid from Blink 182 has, a rigging loft for Jessica an I, a SWEET fiber in every room/private T line/ all 2.1+ GHZ/G4 computer network and all wood floors with wood that had to travel at least 3000 miles to be in that room. And most importantly of all.... a boom boom room to show my bling bling in. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jessica 0 #49 October 17, 2002 Quote.... a boom boom room to show my bling bling in. This comment concerns me.Skydiving is for cool people only Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lowpull 0 #50 October 17, 2002 If I won the lottery? Simple,actually.I have some friends at the dropzone who would have VERY good x-mas. I would make all Winnies(dzo and the nicest woman to ever draw breath) money problems go away. And after all that, probably have almost enough left over for at least a case of Corona. Just a thought.......Ralph Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
