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I would hide it in the old lady's bloomers.
Even I have trouble getting into that.
But we are getting old.
And I know there ain't no way in hell anyone else is getting in there.
She has a gun and knows how to use it.
Sort of inspired by the national spending priorities thread, but I'm asking if you, personally, had $1,000,000,000,000, what would you do with it?
Well, first I would ask the government to withhold taxes from it so they could **** it away before I did. Then, I would buy a burger, fill up my gas tank and start an anti-tax foundation with the leftover money.
But seriously, with whatever was leftover after taxes, I'd give a third to my sister, some to my friends, dole out some annually to my favorite charities...and buy gold and silver. I pay my bills every month and don't owe any money now and I don't own a house to pay off. My car is paid for. Don't wear jewelry. I'm retired so there is no decision needed to quit a job. No interest in getting on a plane to travel abroad but might ask a friend to accompany me on a year-long road trip around the USA. Maybe I'd buy a new camera. I know, I'm boring.
With a trillion dollars, you could control about 1/5 of all the gold ever mined on earth. Then manipulate it up to about double its present value, and you'll have two trillion. Now we're talking real money.
A trillion dollars...[drools like Homer Simpson]...I'd have the palatial estate I always wanted, on a nice-sized chunk of real estate. Beyond that--who knows and who cares? My decisions would suddenly be my own. And I suppose I'd find out who my real friends are.
1. Buy some land and have a house enough to take 10 teenage (even pre-teen) girls or teenage boys, one or the other not both, foster kids. Adopt them. Have our very own game room, so that when it comes time to party with friends then other kids want to be invited there. Not major but good (a pool table/video games/movies/stereo system. (I have looked at possibilities, so I sure ain't carrying no mansion pictures here). Have our own library-not like a real one but.......a personal one so that we can go into a room and create a report without the internet. Like: We are studying......this tribe and we need 5 sources and 3 must come from books---here you go. Hire a teacher to home school. So, we don't have competing interests and the teacher has the time to utilize all of the workable lesson plans that...........really work. That aren't cut short. That *stick*. Hire a foreign language instructor or 2. Practice on each other and then go utilize it. Make history real. Take them to rain forests. So they know. Take them to Rome. Take them to any African countries that aren't in the middle of a war. Is there an opportunity for you to go work in government at this age? Take it. Apply. These are the risks we take. The good ones. No harm no foul. Find their hidden talents and let them grow. Make a garden. Not a farm, at no point in my life do I want to study which chickens must have sex with other ones. Have someone come out and teach them how to change oil and stuff. Have someone come out and do a time of teaching nutrition for 12 or 1 or 20. Give them time to take a breath and realize that the area that they are in is so small and the world is so big.And I swear, any opportunity for them to go play in the real world and interact, not just read, is good. And more importantly make sure that they get that they will always have a home to come back to. You will never ever have to feel that at 18 your at the curb. You have 12 people that will always have your back. Most people that came from more.......ain't got that. And we don't have to thug to get a false pretensive inclusion deal. We are good. In fact, we are great. And if you don't show up for Thanksgiving, I'll hunt you down and 50 lashes with a wet noodle. Most importantly if 8 walk with confidence they can still say, I love you, I will always love you but ............I cannot support what your doing. That, takes courage. And if I had any money left over, and I most assuredly would, I would do it again.
buy a brand new dodge challenger convertible throw a surf board and snow board in the back and drive across north america but stopping in the smaller towns and go to places and events that get my interest along the way so pretty much just be free I would also love to buy a F-14 tomcat with a former navy fighter pilot to fly me places while I jam to kenny loggins danger zone i mean you could buy a boring G5 with gold and marble or a supersonic plane
Sort of inspired by the national spending priorities thread, but I'm asking if you, personally, had $1,000,000,000,000, what would you do with it?
Help the homeless, help single moms, buy Walmart and close it down (might need another Tril to do that one), then skip off to my island in the sun and get a really cool dog. Sit on the beach listening to Weezer and drinking cold Heineken for the rest of my life.
Oh yeah, and get a wicked cool old convertible that does not have button to put the top up:-)
1. Buy some land and have a house enough to take 10 teenage (even pre-teen) girls or teenage boys, one or the other not both, foster kids. Adopt them. Have our very own game room, so that when it comes time to party with friends then other kids want to be invited there. Not major but good (a pool table/video games/movies/stereo system. (I have looked at possibilities, so I sure ain't carrying no mansion pictures here). Have our own library-not like a real one but.......a personal one so that we can go into a room and create a report without the internet. Like: We are studying......this tribe and we need 5 sources and 3 must come from books---here you go. Hire a teacher to home school. So, we don't have competing interests and the teacher has the time to utilize all of the workable lesson plans that...........really work. That aren't cut short. That *stick*. Hire a foreign language instructor or 2. Practice on each other and then go utilize it. Make history real. Take them to rain forests. So they know. Take them to Rome. Take them to any African countries that aren't in the middle of a war. Is there an opportunity for you to go work in government at this age? Take it. Apply. These are the risks we take. The good ones. No harm no foul. Find their hidden talents and let them grow. Make a garden. Not a farm, at no point in my life do I want to study which chickens must have sex with other ones. Have someone come out and teach them how to change oil and stuff. Have someone come out and do a time of teaching nutrition for 12 or 1 or 20. Give them time to take a breath and realize that the area that they are in is so small and the world is so big.And I swear, any opportunity for them to go play in the real world and interact, not just read, is good. And more importantly make sure that they get that they will always have a home to come back to. You will never ever have to feel that at 18 your at the curb. You have 12 people that will always have your back. Most people that came from more.......ain't got that. And we don't have to thug to get a false pretensive inclusion deal. We are good. In fact, we are great. And if you don't show up for Thanksgiving, I'll hunt you down and 50 lashes with a wet noodle. Most importantly if 8 walk with confidence they can still say, I love you, I will always love you but ............I cannot support what your doing. That, takes courage. And if I had any money left over, and I most assuredly would, I would do it again.
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