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Old 04-25-2011, 06:41 PM
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I would open a $5 a yard quilt shop and have all kinds of rooms where people could come and sit and work. I would have tables for cutting and people who didn't have room at home could come there and use the facilities. I would underwrite the cost where fabric cost no more than $5. Then I would drive my red jaguar home at night.
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Old 04-25-2011, 09:27 PM
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I, too, would help animals.

But, i would set up a scholarship fund for B students. You know the ones who do fine, but just didn't reach that A level. It seems to me that very good and very bad students get attention, but the wonderful, productive ones in the middle have to really struggle for any assistance.
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Old 04-25-2011, 09:30 PM
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I would get some property and build many cottages and a community building. These would be for ALL types of crafters and we would have a "shop" to see our wares. We would have some planned events to be together but have our own "home" to go to. A big Craft area.
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Old 04-25-2011, 09:43 PM
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Find a cure for Alzheimers.Donate to my church. And for my family and myself, buy that 50 acres that I want, build a five bedroom,5 bath house, 2 car garage, barn- for milk cows & chickens and plant several acres of veggies and fruit and give it to seniors and folks who really need it. :thumbup:
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Old 04-26-2011, 02:46 AM
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Random acts of kindness anonymously.
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Old 04-26-2011, 04:28 AM
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I would pay off the mortgages on my kids' homes, give them each a million $$, give my church a million $$, buy a new Jeep Grand Cherokee with all the bells and whistles, buy a new boat for my husband = about 28 ft. & trailer, fix up my yard and house with new paint, nice fence, nice lawn, garden & veggie garden (all with someone doing the tilling, raking, planting for me), buy the best quilting/sewing machine available, buy my husband all the tools (like a table saw) that he ever dreamed of, a new truck for my husband buy a camper/trailer - a big new one with all the automatic buttons and a shower & bathroom in it, give a whole bunch of money to Airedale Rescue, fix a sewing room in my house just the way I want it etc etc etc etc.
In other words, I would spend and enjoy it but not waste it on gambling and such. I am in my 70s. A big windfall now would be for me to enjoy the rest of my life and then the rest would go to my kids when I was gone.
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Old 04-26-2011, 04:34 AM
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There's an old joke: "What would you do if you had all the money in the world?" and the reply: "I'd use it to pay my debts, as far as it would go"
Thankfully I'm not in that situation, and can finally in retirement afford enough to make me happy.
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Old 04-26-2011, 05:27 AM
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I would buy my husband a motor home and we could travel all over - husband, Miss Bess and me!!!!! I could cook, I could sew, we could go when we wanted to, stop when we wanted to. I'd like a Bounder!

My husband has gone through more hell than anyone could imagine including Leukemia and Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma and all the chemo and stuff and he deserves something that he has wanted to do during his retirement - travel. This way he would be home, wherever we are.

That's what I would do. Edie
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Old 04-26-2011, 05:28 AM
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Originally Posted by CloverPatch
Hire a hitman.
Oh wait, does it have to be legal?

I would buy an entire neighborhood just for my family and friends.
Ditto to this. I told my kids and grands recently that there should be a law against family moving away from each other.
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Old 04-26-2011, 05:50 AM
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Would try to help others.
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