If you were a zillionaire.....

Being as how I am a poor student at the moment, fantasies about being fabulously wealthy are very comforting. If I had zillions to spend, here's what I'd buy. It's an eclectic list, but I'm an eclectic person::

LOTS of nice things for my kids, ski trips for them, and new cars (they are young, I'd buy 'em custom Hummers)
Lots of nice things for my Dad and his wife
Items to help the victims of the tsunami
Buy some new furniture and do a little remodelling of my house
Get a housekeeper
Buy Godiva chocolate
Buy one of those gorgeous but obscenely expensive handmade leather purses and get matching shooz too
Eat out at nice places
Money for cancer research, that is what my Dad did with his life, he researched
Really contribute to Fauna in a meaningful way
Pay the electric bill
Get a really snazzy green tree python


OK, your turn, if you had zillions, what would YOU do?

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If I had a zillion dollars.... What would hubby and I spend it on...

we would pay off my student loans
we would pay off this house.
we would sell our podunk vehicle, and get a matched pair of something really nice. Or we would get one truck (for hauling feed items), and one four wheel vehicle.
We would buy the piece of property we almost bought but couldn't because it was in a flood zone.
We would allow that piece of property to remain "wild".
We would buy some very nice land in the northwest somewhere, where there are beautiful trees and grass and days where it gets over 110* are in the single digits per year.
On that beautiful land we would have a house built that was built with the plan to actually LAST for a long time, instead of twenty or thirty years. We would also furnish it with that in mind.
Also on our beautiful land, we would construct several outbuildings. One of them would be a state-of-the-art rodent facility. (With accompanying quarters, for our "rat slave" who would take care of the rodents in instead of paying rent...some starving student). Another of the outbuildings would be our snake building, with everything custom built to serve all the snakeys I could imagine ever wanting to own...with built in quarters for our "snake slave"...see "rat slave" comment above. We would have to have our beautiful property near enough to a university, where we would be allowing free housing for some college student(s). We would probably have peacocks and horses. Our own veterinarian on retainer.

I would get my sister the best lawyer on the planet so that her &^%&^% ex-husband would be forced to never say another foul word about her in front of their children, and allow her the time with her kids she is entitled to by law.

I would get a state of the art theater system, with an entertainment room where we could have all our DVD's on shelves. I would have all our VHS movies in DVD format.

Hubby and I would have our own eclectic store with books, movies, snakes & animal stuff, and everything in the universe related to chess (his passion).

I would have a top of the universe digital camera, and a computer system so that I could do the computer art I have been longing to do. I'd be able to pay models to pose for the photographs necessary to make my art. Hubby and I would probably spend time tutoring needy students in math and science. I would be able to spend time getting my novel written, and my textbook finalized. (I'm on page 800 and something now, will it EVER end?).

I would do some traveling, but not that much. I would pay for my parents to travel as much and as far as they wanted. I would set up a college fund for my stepchildren and my neices and nephews. I would go sailing, at least once.

And I would continue doing my best to love every minute of my life, bad and good, and do everything I could to make sure that the money did not corrupt me or my family!

Thought about this many times

Like if I won the Texas Lotto (or just infinite wealth). I would of course tithe right off the bat. I would give more actually. I would hook all the special people in my life. My family would become debt free and give everyone about a million bucks each. This would of course keep them out of my pocket

After the altruism it's on to hedonism...

I've always wanted to open an aquarium exhibit. So, I'd do that. Something w/ lots of Saltwater tanks, reefs, shark tanks, etc. I'm hoping to do that in 5 years anyway if this first project goes well.

I'd need to set up some nice places for me to hang out and be a big shot at, so...a restaurant concept is a must. A wine bar and cigar lounge would be cool also. And while I'm at it, I might as well open a beer bar too. Too much you say? There are already like 70+ bars on this island! Being a restaurant would allow me a place to hang out, flirt, and get tanked.

I love to go fishing and diving so I'd have to get a yacht. And of course I'd spare no expense. It would be nice! I've always wanted to spend a week offshore fishing. I'd also get some nice Penn rigs.

New Scuba Gear

Hire help here and pay them $50K a year clean snake poop.

Fix this place up nicer and expand my collection. Since I am the obsessive compulsive herper, I'd have to have every herp out there. From King Cobras to Radiated Tortoises, and everything in between. All the color phases too!

A nicer gym

A Hummer

If I was a zillionaire...

First I'd help out all of my relatives, pay off their homes and bills, and give them all a clean slate. All the kids would have the funds to go as far in school as they desired. I'd do the same for my long time friend and his daughter.

The wife wouldn't have to work at a job that stresses her out. She could go be a librarian like she has talked about a number of times. She could also go travel to the places she has always wanted go (that whole Europe thing doesn't do anything for me). While she was doing her thing I'd go herping. Then we could go to the few places we have talked about going to together.

Needless to say our bills would be taken care of. I'd buy a big ol' chunk of land and build our dream home right in the middle. Everything would be state of the art and automated.

Of course the reptile rooms would become a facility. Two unrelated pairs of whatever caught my eye will do for starters. I don't mind cleaning up after the snakes but there would absolutely be someone hired to deal with the rodents. Maybe I'd get RodentPro to open a satellite branch in my back yard next to the snake building.

My wife isn't into the reptiles but she loves dogs and cats. We'd end up with the biggest dog and cat rescue ever.

Sorry Lucille but the Fauna Fund would have to go since it wouldn't be needed anymore. I would pick all operating and upgrade costs. I'd even see if I could buy back Lucille's one warning point.

I'd donate to cancer research in hope of finding a cure to this that effects so many.

I'd help as many people as I could since I'd have the means to do so. I'd live comfortably as would those who are close to me.

I'd even see if I could buy back Lucille's one warning point.

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what about my 35, i mean you ARE going to have a zillion dollars

if i had a zillion dollars.............
i would buy lama or an emu
a fur coat but not a real fur coat , thats cruel
i would buy some furniture, like a chesterfeild or an ottoman
i would buy some art like a piccasso or a garfunkle
if i had a zillion dollars i wouldnt have to eat kraft dinner, but we would eat kraft but we would buy whataburger ketchup
i would buy a K car, a nice reliant automobile

...if i had a zillion dollars i'd be rich

robin s. said:

what about my 35, i mean you ARE going to have a zillion dollars

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robin s. said:

i would buy some art like a piccasso or a garfunkle

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Good one.

robin s. said:

...if i had a zillion dollars i'd be rich

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So why would you change your name to Rich?

Wow...some of those read like poems...nice!
On my front...hmmm...don't really care that much for money, so don't have any idea...I am sure that my wife would. Heck, if we won that much, I might be single again as she jets around the world, and I go back to painting in my cabin down by the beach. (I like it better there, no phones, no noise...)

greg

Nah. If any woman had to choose between you and having a wonderful, luxury, sun drenched jet vacation, there would be no contest....you'd come first every time...

Wow...some of those read like poems...nice!

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Those are the lyrics to a song by The Bare Naked Ladies....that's why they read like poems!

Let's see....

My in-laws would be traveling all over the planet. My kids would be able to finish any education that they wanted. Lots of charities would be having a good year. My sister would have her own house, and my brother would be able to retire. My granddaughter (and soon-to-arrive grandson) would have every opportunity to expand their minds. My husband would have one kick-ass reptile breeding/display/retail/educational facility, a Hummer, a restored Chevelle, and cheese curds flown in from Quebec whenever he wanted them.

I'd do one simple thing and do a LOT of it. . . Travel.
I have very wealthy friends who just came back from a trip to Botswana. They were telling me they LOVED it. And since I'm the animal lover that I am, I would LOOOOOVVVVEE It 10 times more than they did!!! Oh man what a trip they must have had.

yes bare naked ladies song hehehe..... but for real if i had that much "ching" i would pay off any and all debts of my fathers (i would let his wife be in the hole though) pay of the house paymens and car payment or maybe new cars for my brothers... set upset up a high interestbearing accounts for my neice and nephews for education. then i would by my self the home of my dreams get me a damn driver since i cant drive anymore try and find a 52 police edition harley for my hubby (his wife sold his while they were seperated, 3,000)... and get him all his tools back too (she sold those too for pennies on the dollar.. very expensive mechanics tools and machinist tools)... deck him oput in gerstner machinist boxes.. start a company and invest the rest in stocks bonds and real estate ... oh and i would send a whole slew to the different eye institutions for research

Wow, I am very impressed by all the good things y'all would do with your money. It is heartening to see that even though each of y'all naturally have choices you would make for yourselves, you think of wonderful things for others too.
David, I was tickled at your thought of buying up my warning point, lol. Thank you. (Hmmmmm, perhaps we could auction it off...(kidding)....

Buy y own third world nation and instigate a coup to overthrow the surrounding policical leaders so I could be a hard line dictator of a vast area of poor people. that or the tried and true world wide booty tour and open up a chain of strip clubs across the nation. Yep capitalism is a great thing.

Right now I'd buy the world's best server, give it to Webslave, and hire someone to operate it so he could go to some South Sea Island for a vacation with his wife and no snakes.

what I would do

1st Paint "I QUIT" accross my A$$ pull up to the front doors of work in a stretch limo stick MY A$$ out the window. Let them figure out who just quit.

2nd buy a medium sized hobby farm,15 angus cows, 5 horses, some ducks, chickens ect...

3rd buy all the cars I have ever wanted starting with a '70 442

4th set up all my family

5th build my wifes dream house and my dream herp room and garage.

6th spend a crap load on my kids

7th CallDawg world tour

8th live out my life very happily

Heh if any of y'all actually BECOME zillionnaires, come see me, OK? lol......