If you won the lottery: Survey

[daviolin]

Hi Girls, Maybe this has been asked before, but here it go's again.
If you won the lottery, I mean the big one, Power Ball, Many millions of dollars. What fun extravagant activity would you like to do? As a CD ofcourse.
My first thing would be. A trip to Chicago. Get a super swanky room. Then go out shopping at all the exclusive women's shops. Be pampered by all the sales clerks, because you are spending money big time. You can read between the lines and enter your own fantasy with this one. Then after that New York, London, Paris etc etc etc. I could do that until the money ran out. Its the clothes, thats my favorite thing about being a crossdresser. :D Daviolin

[Suzy Parker]

Id by a really nice mansion, really nice cars, upgrade my wardrobe, then throw a fancy formal party and invite as many of my friends here as possible.

[Kimberly Long]

I would buy a new motorhome and travel the USA as a woman that I am. I would purchase the best jewelry and clothing. I did this after my retirement in 1998 but money stopped me in 2005. I had a blast and enjoyed every day that I was on the road,.
Love Kimberly

[AvidFan]

I'd start electro/laser immediately. Go shopping. Get a cute girly car. a vacation 100% enfemme and see about some FFS. I could go on all day :)

[janet54]

I would give my wife what ever she wanted for doing all she has done for me over the years. Because money can't buy that!!!!

[STACY B]

I would give my wife what ever she wanted for doing all she has done for me over the years. Because money can't buy that!!!! :love: :love: :love: Other than all the normal stuff you think you mite hear about the money ,,I would buy a BIG tour bus an fill it with a profesional makeup person an hair stylist an have a tractor trailer full of clothes an shoes follow us around an go to each an every person on this sites house an GIVE them a makeover with all the clothes an shoes an wigs hair jewelry an all the trimmings for FREE !! :hugs: Just so I can make EVERYBODYS DREAMS come true just like mine ,, Thats would make me the happiest ,,To see the look on all of your faces when my team of experts got done with you ,,An you can keep what ever you want . An to all the rest if your already there just name your surgery or what ever you want an its yours ,,, So in short Ill PISS it all AWAY !!! Easy come Easy GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :devil: :devil: :devil:

[ArleneRaquel]

If I won the lottery I'd move to Northern California.

[BobbieBrooks]

Oh boy, with the way my luck is, If I did win, I would have a heart attack and my wife would be set for the rest of HER life. LOL
(hopefully I'm buried in a new dress etc, closed casket of course)


BobbieB

[NZ_Dawn]

Hmmmmmmm......If I won it all......I would share it with my wife of course....but I would stop CDing......
As a result of the drmataic chnage that would ensue......it would no longer be CDing! Ohhh such a thought, I'll just continue to sponser the next winner! lol

[BRANDYJ]

I'd buy that beach house that my SO has always wanted. Then somewhere close by, I'd open a resort exclusively for CD/TG's and their partners (couples only) It would have a complete staff of expert hair and make up artists, nail techs, massage girls and a staff made up of primarily TG's. Fine shops and dining, theater, and casino. It would have some great golf courses and a fishing fleet.

[NathalieX66]

] My first thing would be. A trip to Chicago.

You will Love Michigan Avenue....also known as the Magnificent Mile.
I lived two years in Chicago, and I miss it dearly.

But to answer the original question, my choice would be a lifetime money's worth of permanent hair removal, a 40 foot sailboat docked in a coastal town where I can go anywhere, and a couple of cool expensive guitars, and send kids to college. That's about it....don't need anymore. I'm fully happy. The rest requires human company.

[ArleneRaquel]

You will Love Michigan Avenue....also known as the Miracle Mile.
I lived two years in Chicago, and I miss it dearly.

But to answer the original question, my choice would be a lifetime money's worth of permanent hair removal, a 40 foot sailboat docked in a coastal town where I can go anywhere, and a couple of cool expensive guitars, and send kids to college. That's about it....don't need anymore. I'm fully happy. The rest requires human company.

Chicago is a great town, despite the Mayor. :heehee:

[CarlaWestin]

I'd sleep in, in my sexy little night gown with forms and all, and never wear another article of drab clothing again. I'm sure my wife would love the new life I would afford her.

[Noemi]

Fantasy land, dig it!

I would spend on hair removal, then add some hair to my head, FFS, well if I had all that loot I would transition, the works, and move away, probably back to LA....I scare myself saying stuff like this because I am always looking to balance my CDing or just try to live a simple life....I would give much of the money away to charities, because there is the greatest gift. Aside from traveling the USA giving free makeovers, that is pretty awesome too.

Fun Post!!
♥♥♥
Noemi

[Karren H]

Well thanks to good financial planning..... I don't really need to win the lottery and I'll tell you what I'm doing with mine right now... The masons are currently repointing my entire house.... I seem to be building a brand new 1960 ranch house exactually where my house is now.... New roof. New windows. New siding.... Re-remodeling everything. All new furniture.... The wife just ordered a couch from germany. Takes 6 months to get here. Lol. Lucky for me one of my distant cousins was EF Hutton....... :):):)

[daviolin]

Karen you always put a smile on my face with your comments. Daviolin

[5150 Girl]

another one for electro, then maybe inplants

[NathalieX66]

Well thanks to good financial planning..... I don't really need to win the lottery and I'll tell you what I'm doing with mine right now... The masons are currently repointing my entire house.... I seem to be building a brand new 1960 ranch house exactually where my house is now.... New roof. New windows. New siding.... Re-remodeling everything. All new furniture.... The wife just ordered a couch from germany. Takes 6 months to get here. Lol. Lucky for me one of my distant cousins was EF Hutton....... :):):)

Lucky you.
My retirement is exactly 20 years away, and even thought I have nice company/corporate perks, I hope all that money's there when the day comes.

[RADER]

Well thanks to good financial planning..... I don't really need to win the lottery and I'll tell you what I'm doing with mine right now... Lucky for me one of my distant cousins was EF Hutton....... :):):)

You are correct; I do not need a lottery ticket to have fun with life; just the market.
I guess I am like that Smith- Barney guy, "I Earned It"
Rader

[Nikki A.]

Fix up or get a a new house, pay off my kids student loans and get us all new cars.
As far as anything dramatic such as transitioning or implants, I doubt it. BUUUT, I would dress anyway I damn well please, when poor you're crazy or creepy , rich you're eccentric or a trendsetter

[Mistybtm]

If I won I would give some to my family (I am divorced) to pay off what ever they had and some extra then I would buy A house with A private fenced in yard and maybe get A boob job done C or D cup and never wear drab clothes again. And then it will be party time :)

[Karren H]

Lucky you.
My retirement is exactly 20 years away, and even thought I have nice company/corporate perks, I hope all that money's there when the day comes.

Yeah.... I made sure mine was there... Thanks to 401k's and defined pensions.... Mine should be now. And everyone asks why I'm still here... Retiree medical!! They effed it up a few months ago... So I'm staying.

[RADER]

Yeah.... I made sure mine was there... Thanks to 401k's and defined pensions.... Mine should be now. And everyone asks why I'm still here... Retiree medical!! They effed it up a few months ago... So I'm staying.

Thank God for my Carpenters union; I kept my major Med plan, with the Rx plan as well.
With out a medical plan, you can not retire. Medicare is just a lot of BS, it only pays for
other people, and not you. So with out my BC-BS from the union, I would be spending my
retirement money for Doctors and pills.
Rader

[Lorileah]

I would give the money to charity and continue to live on a meager amount because I am that kind of person:straightface:.

Why are you still reading this?...:D OK I would live well and I would do everything I ever wanted to do. Just like most here it would involve being who I wanted to be and traveling.

The other $10 I would probably just blow on something silly

[Mythic]

I would buy a mansion. Or a castle in Europe. I would visit places in England, Ireland, Germany, Scottland, France. All the places of my ancestors that I am currently aware of. Buy an Audi R8, and a new wardrobe. And just live off the rest of the money I don't spend.

[Alice B]

I already live in a beautiful home, have a good vehicle but would upgrade it. I have a boat and most importantly a loving wife. Sure I would go on a spending spree for clothing ( the best) and have some custom outfits made for my body type. But, the bulk would go to finalizing our financial security, taking care of our children, grandchildren and close realitives. I would then set up endowment funds for groups that I belong to or support to ensure their continued sucess. I might then step up our travel, which is already extensive. I am one that already has a pretty good life and don't need to live in excess.

[ReineD]

I'd travel the world!

[Gizmo, Debbie]

In all honesty i doubt i'd go daft and get things i would seldom use or even need.
I'd have 2 cars. A small economical city car for running around town and short journeys then some bigger and heavier ( along the lines of a Range Rover or Shogun) for longer journeys and winter driving.
I would't need a big house with like 20 rooms or more......Then again..... An indoor swimming pool, ten-pin bowling allay, Snooker table and both british and american sized pool tables.
Now there is a thought? Gimme the big house the more rooms the better? I could start up a kindda hotel type thing that specialises in transgender get-aways.
For all those seeking to get out and about enfemme but don't know where to go and what to do.

Sadly i never win anything so looks like it'll only ever be a dream.

[Kate Simmons]

I probably wouldn't be doing anything very much different than what I'm doing now. The only difference would probably be that I'd like to have a lot of cute guys hang around me as some of the obligatory "groupies" that hang around when you have money.;):battingeyelashes::)

[kimdl93]

For us, we'd make pretty modest changes in our lives. Put some money aside for the kids, more travel and probably a home in the Colorado mountains.

[Xrys]

1: Put enough in an account to live off intrest without ever having to work again
2: pay off debts
3: transition
4: get a yacht
5: hire a crew
6: travel the world in my seafareing home
7: get a really hot pirate outfit or two, Yarrr!

[sometimes_miss]

Stop working immediately. Move to Hawaii, big island, Kona coast. Buy nice moderate place within walking distance of a beach. Spend a lot of time at whatever local gogo bar is there. Buy new car. CD wise? Maybe buy a few nice dresses. Depending on how much I win, will offer a friend or two to come with me. And now that I never have to work again, will no longer care whether anyone knows whether I crossdress or not.

[Cheryl T]

Laser first, then a hair transplant so I could grow mine out without looking like a long-haired monk...
Then a nice 5th wheel truck and trailer, then it's off to see the country and visit every state....

[Georgia_Maine]

I'm with you, Cheryl, less facial hair and more head hair! Then I'd take my wife anywhere and everywhere she wants to go. Doesn't matter how I'm dressed as long as she's happy. Being more of a frugal lady, I wouldn't spend a lot on Gigi - maybe a few thousand a year.

[Foxglove]

I'd finance a huge international campaign to ban lotteries everywhere, permanently. I think they're bad for people. Lotteries teach people to dream of getting something for nothing. And life simply doesn't work that way. They need to learn to live in the real world . . .

Huh? Oh, yeah, sure I was just kidding.

Now let's see. First I'd fulfil one dream I've always had: one house in the South of France, the other in New Zealand. That way I could jump between them, depending on the season, so that I never have to experience another winter.

Then I'd hire somebody to give me fashion advice, very badly needed, and help with my make-up. And then I'd set up a little business I've long dreamed of and which I've never got into because I've never been convinced of its profitability. But with my newfound and deserved wealth, I wouldn't have to worry about that.

Finally I'd hire some really smart guys to invent a chemical. A really great chemical. Best chemical the world's ever seen. We'd put it in water supplies all over the planet. It would make people love, absolutely adore TG people. They'd all be inviting us to dinner and taking photos of us standing beside their kids and dogs. They'd love us.

Any other questions?

Best wishes, Annabelle

[Jocelyn Quivers]

After the necessary enhancements to my figure and appearance (FFS, Breast Aug), I would be a full time ZUMBA instructor!!

[Sophie_C]

Fully transition with some good FFS. Get a house and invest so I don't ever have to worry about being thrown on the street by discrimination. That would be worth way more than any possession I'd get out of it. Ah, looks like Jocelyn beat me to half of it!

[marny]

Very nice but who are you going to ask over for tea?
I would buy a mansion. Or a castle in Europe. I would visit places in England, Ireland, Germany, Scottland, France. All the places of my ancestors that I am currently aware of. Buy an Audi R8, and a new wardrobe. And just live off the rest of the money I don't spend.

[Leah Lynn]

Give the vast majority to the wife to get her to leave, saving enough to transition, laser, ffs, etc.

Come on, a girl can dream!

[Contessa]

I would start all over being a crossdresser. I'd take all new measurements, or even have then taken. Would I have a tailor or a seamstress do that. Everything would be custom fitted. Then I'd work on the rest of my loved ones around me. We would just have a ball. Then the second day after I'd won I'm not sure what to do?

Tess

[Annie D]

Two things actually: Thelma and Louise; my wife has already agreed that if we win the lottery that I could get breast implants and those are my names for them.

[gender_blender]

I would consider breast implants and many very sexy stable invesments. Positive dividends are the sexiest accessories.

[Ally 2112]

Help out my closest family then buy every muscle car i have ever wanted .I would also move to bigger center with cd or tg friendly areas so i could get out more .The closet thing is way over rated lol :)

[Tina B.]

If I won the lottery I'd move to Northern California.
Lottery winnings re not needed to move to northern California, I did it 13 years ago because I was out of work, and broke.
Now if I won the lottery, I would go somewhere warm for the Summer, and get away from all this cold rain. But when I get there, the shopping had better be good.
Tina B.

[SANDRA MICHELLE]

I am also not in need of the money, I do play however. I won the lottery just by having the most wonderful wife in the world. If I did win the lottery we would give even more to our favorite charities and probably help out family and friends more. I wanted to win that big one a few months back, 600 plus million, could have sponsored hundreds of sex change ops for any of you on here that want one and just can't afford it. I live a very simple life, no smoking, very little drinking and not much of a partier. Our house is just right and the money would be great to spread around to all the people that are in need of help. Hope I win or one of you win so your dreams can come true.

[kimmyg]

pay off my bills
set up my family for life
get a make over and live the rest of my life as a woman

[Kelli Ca]

First thing would be a transformation makeover, professional, then out on the town

[JohnH]

I would have fat transfer breast augmentation, get a new car, new clothes, a custom home, and put the rest of the money in investments to yield passive income so I would not have to work.

Added section - also electrolysis of facial hair for sure and maybe body hair if the F2M HRT does not make the body hair fine enough.

John

[jillleanne]

The first thing I would do is count it. By the time I finished, I'd have another million. Must be the accountant in me.

[Tara D. Rose]

Well what I would do is along the same as others have already mentioned. Yes, I'd buy a nice home on 40 plus acres, with a auto-gate, some nice two seater sports cars for my wife and myself. All my family, brothers, sister, and my children would all get a couple of million. After I could get just the right dresses and professional makeover, I'd walk into my current job and tell my boss that I'm leaving, I'd walk out to the main floor and say goodbye everyone, all the while they wouldn't know who I am. I'd give a $20,000 check to my friend Brian there and I'd give a $5.00 bill to the rest of them. Maybe I'd open up a private members only club exclusivley for Tg people, where all the drinks would be 10 cents apeice.

[Annaliese2010]

I'd go to London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Munich, Zurich, Rome, Vienna, Prague, Helsinki, St. Petersberg, Moscow, Bucharest, Istanbul, Bombay, Nepal, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Wellington (New Zealand), Tahiti, Galapagos, Tierra Del Fuego, Rio de Janeiro, Nairobi, Cape Town, and the Antarctic continent. Can you imagine the wardrobe change required? LOL...

[Msora]

I would move to place where this way of life isn't out of the ordinary, throw a coming out party for myself, then go on a TG world tour, hitting all the TG friendly spots in the world plus a few others.

I'd play it by ear on feminization surgeries. I'm still finding my way.

Eventually I'd retire to a place out in a rural area and start a rescue for big dogs.

[marny]

I'd buy my wife a new car , if she would let me, and I would call back the guy that was gonna fix the porch before the market tanked, 5yrs past..................................... OH Yeah. Implants for me!

[Brianna in Hose]

I would pay off all of my student loans, all debts, and all my parents debts. Then shopping spree for myself and my wife.

[vivianann]

I would take care of all my obligations, then buy a new house. I would then get my teeth fixed, then get electrolyses done on my face, and get laser hair removal on the body hairs. I will get breast implants, ffs also. I will live full time as a woman.

[sandra-leigh]

I'd probably move Back Home (comparable house is about $150,000 more there.)

Other than that... if I had enough money to not have to worry about later in life, I'd be happy to travel and visit people, programming for them for free. (If that sounds strange, think of artists who care more about doing their art than about being rich.)

On the trans side of things, I'm relatively plateaued at the moment. I've already been on HRT for 17 1/2 months, and I do not currently have any impulse towards surgery. But having "enough" money would be good for the times when I feel like wearing a skirt or dress to work: I wouldn't feel any need to conform in order because I would not need the employment. (I haven't worn guy clothes for several years.)

[Eryn]

If I won the lottery I'd wonder who bought the ticket!

I understand probability too well for lotteries to be enjoyable. :)

[Jessie29]

I would have a sex change a full one and spend money on a new cloest and taking all my girls out for a night.

[Kaz]

I never would win because of Eryn's point... I don't do it because the stats are incredible! There is no logical justification!

But if I did, and I did win.... I suspect nobody would hear from me again!

[ArleneRaquel]

I haven't bought a lottery ticket in over 20 years, if I've purchased more that 5 tickets in my entire life I would be surprised.

[sandra-leigh]

I never would win because of Eryn's point... I don't do it because the stats are incredible! There is no logical justification!


True story: a decade ago or so my wife went on a vacation that happened to include a day cruise on a ship that had slot machines. My wife urged me to play the machines. I, knowing the kinds of returns in those machines (as low as 60% of intake in places not regulated to be higher!) compromised by playing the lowest cost machine, the nickel slots, and got change for only $5. I played a few rounds, then won back about 50 cents, played a few more -- and won one of the higher payouts available on the machine, $5.95. At that point, having made a profit of about $3.50, I refused to play anymore in order to protect my winnings!

(Yes, I rank pretty low on risk taking!!)

[Angie G]

I'd get some really secluded land so Angie could walk around outside when ever I pleased.And there would be lots of great clothes.:hugs:
Angie

[Suzy Parker]

A man won a multi-million dollar lottery.....
He called his wife and said "Great news honey, I won the lottery, pack your bags"
She replied "Great, are we going someplace"
His answer "No WE aren't, just be out by the time I get home"

:lol2:

[Lorenqt]

If I won the lottery, I'd start laser, HRT, probably FFS.

[LisaMallon]

I actually knew a couple that won it twice!!!

My problem with the lottery is that I have to win at least $5 Million .. since I have mentally spent $3M on all the gifts for family and friends, things done to myself and toys that I want to buy
Oh for an Aston Martin, I would give anyone else's left arm for one, convertible, British racing Green ...ah.
Plus the Spitfire, the ..... hmm maybe I need $10 million.

[JaytoJillian]

Giver her half and say goodbye

[Mollyanne]

Oh Boy; what would I do, lets see. Pay off all the bills, pay off the kids(grown) bills, give them a million each(only two kids). Have my dream house built. go to Thailand for a complete AND I MEAN COMPLETE sexual change. Go shopping, shopping, shopping and then wake up to discover it was all a dream.

Molly

[jillleanne]

If I won the lottery I'd wonder who bought the ticket!

I understand probability too well for lotteries to be enjoyable. :)

They are not intended to be enjoyable. I do not nor have ever gotten any enjoyment from buying a lottery ticket. They, like everythng else for sale, are part of a money-making business. There is one underlying principle involved however: The odds of winning without a ticket, is ZERO.

[BLUE ORCHID]

I would build another addition on our house with super walkin closets for all the new clothes and shoes
and my dressing room would have wall to wall mirrors.

Then I would buy a couple new fire trucks for our local volunteer fire dept and set them up with a trust fund.

[suchacutie]

The lottery would allow for us not to have to worry about what something costs when we want to do house remodeling, or buy clothes, or cars, or whatever. Outside of removing that stress, I don't think I'd change a thing apart from the natural evolution of Tina's progress. It just wouldn't be a cost issue of any kind, and that would be wonderfully lovely!

[NicoleScott]

I've heard it said that the lottery is a tax on math-challenged people.
Yes, the odds of winning without buying a ticket are zero.
But the odds of buying a ticket and winning are very, very close to zero.

[Nicole Erin]

Hey look I am posting after Nicole Scott. Nicole is sure a popular name yes?

I don't play lottery cause it is a gip. If I played and won though - I would not keep working, I would buy an exotic car (hell with that modest crap) and I would not live like a normal person. Well i already don't live like a normal person anyways.

[Babeba]

Are you SURE it's the biggest pot going? I think I'll need it! :D

I would set up a fund for each of my younger cousins and Crystal Alberta's niece and nephew to pay for their schooling wherever they wanted to go (also I would throw in some for my own future kids). My granny is in her 70s and still working: she can never hold on to money and has no savings because she gives it all away to televangelists, so I would put some in a trust account for my social-worker aunt and uncle to manage as her executors for when she cannot keep up with her house anymore and needs to either hire a carer or go to a long term care home. Other than my granny, I wouldn't give money to my family: they all have ways of making their own and it's kind of demeaning to say, 'here, accept charity because clearly you are making squat for money!' None of my family I am close to have debt other than the fact that my brother and his new wife bought a house together, and so I would feel totally fine with giving them a chunk towards their house but not the whole amount: I mean, it's their house and not mine, and I would just want to make sure that they had enough equity in their home to deal with it comfortably if they had something horrible happen to them and neither could work for a few years.


I would give a bunch of money to the Nature Conservancy of Canada so they can help protect vulnerable Grizzly Bear habitat on the west coast and help preserve the Y2Y corridor. I would set up a grant foundation to give money for enhancements to my favourite museums based on how they would decide to spend it, I would pay for scholarships in Haiti so they can have their own citizens train as technicians, tradespeople, doctors, nurses, builders and all the other jobs they are short of. I would put aside money to help clean up areas where debris from the Japanese disaster are washing up in North America. I would fund a prize to be awarded to the organization, nation or individual who works out how to deal with the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

I would probably hire a personal assistant, to follow me around and keep track of where I put down my keys and my glasses. I would hire JaytoJillian to run Zumba classes for me :-). I would buy a smallish house (really, I would - I've lived in a big house and it is more trouble than it is worth!) and hire help to get the garden started up properly. I would get rid of any fricking kentucky blue grass, or brome grasses or anything else that was in the yard, and replace it with short native grasses so I don't really have to mow or water.

After I bought one of EVERYTHING off ModCloth, Irregular Choice and ThinkGeek, I would find an awesome indie designer somewhere in the UK, US or Canada and work with them to create any other clothes Crystal or I felt like having in recycled fabrics, peace silk, or organic cotton, linen, bamboo fibre or wool; hopefully they would be able to hire starting-out designers to work with them on internships in their workshop and be able to (with my funds) devote some of their time to sharing their skills by visiting schools in their local area to share tips with home ec classes. I would buy about fifty gazillion pairs of shoes: running shoes which are comfy, cute, and functional, hiking boots for summer, fall, and winter, climbing shoes, outdoor sports sandals, cute walking sandals, cute bike riding sandals, comfy ballet flats, awesome sneakers, snowboard boots that fit a little bit better, boating shoes, awesomely cute dancing shoes, high heels, wedges, and pretty much anything without those silly peep toes that always give me weird blisters and suck.

I would buy a vintage rolleiflex TLR camera and set up a dark room (so long as the weird chemicals needed didn't make me stop breathing). I would buy all the ridiculously cute cruiser bicycles a girl could want, and cheekily install a small motor-and-battery that would charge as I pedaled, then kick in to help take me up hills because I am absolutely rubbish at riding upwards. I would take weeks at a time off work so I could go on long trips around the world - I would find some way to kidnap Crystal along with me as much as possible. I would hike the West Coast trail, and bike the Romantic Road. I would backpack around Europe again, visit more of Asia, spend time in South America, Australia, Africa, and I would volunteer to work as an assistant on a research project in Antarctica so I could say I'd been on all the continents.


Hrm.. I can't think of anything more off the top of my head?! I think that's enough, though! :)

[Eryn]

...I would probably hire a personal assistant....

Mimi and I will be your personal assistants and help you keep track all the cool stuff you're buying! :)

[Babeba]

Mimi and I will be your personal assistants and help you keep track all the cool stuff you're buying! :)

Sigh! Just when I think I am doing okay with not being too consumerist! :)

OOh! thought of another thing! I would make sure that cute little house I bought had extensive kitchen renovations, and I'd get a vintage Kitchen Aid from back when they were made with all-metal parts. When I travel, I would make sure that everywhere I went I had someone who was great at that style of cuisine teach me some of the basics of their food culture.

[Chloe' Buffington]

I'd go live on a cruise ship for a year as Chloe'....

[reb.femme]

I told my wife she could open any letter that arrives with my name on it except any that may be from the UK National Lottery.
I said, "I'll tell you what's in it when I call tomorrow from Barbados".

Can you believe that she thumped me? What did I say to deserve that? :devil:

Rebecca x

[Brittany CD]

What I'd do first is get a lot of wigs. Several kinds, lace and synthetic. Short, medium, long, red, black, brown, and blonde. I'd get makeup from several brands, breast forms of various sizes, and so many articles of clothing and shoes

[Eryn]

OOh! thought of another thing! I would make sure that cute little house I bought had extensive kitchen renovations, and I'd get a vintage Kitchen Aid from back when they were made with all-metal parts. When I travel, I would make sure that everywhere I went I had someone who was great at that style of cuisine teach me some of the basics of their food culture.

C'mon now, you're rich! You fly chefs in from around the world and have them cook for you! OTOH, If you feel as though you want to create some sort of "fusion" of your own you might need to build that kitchen. If so, contract with a food corporation to market your creations as "Babeba's Own" brand!

[KateSpade83]

What I'd do if I won the Lotto depends on how much I win!

Minimum Lotto Win: IL $1000 A Week for Life Lotto -> I'd know my future is secure and I have enough to marry a wife and not work. But I'd rather work with this low of a win.

$5 Million Lotto -- I'll be a thrifty millionaire. This is like retire early money. Would occasionally do temp work to get more money. Would travel some.

$50 Million Lotto - probably $35 million after taxes. Would give 8 million pretax to brother and relatives. Rest I would keep to travel some. I would became a good investor and try to live off investments. Why bother with a time consuming business?

$100 + Million - would give more to relatives to help them out. I'd travel a lot and live off investments.

$300 Million - would give more to relatives to help them out. I'd travel a lot and live off investments. Might get into mfg a product, making a video game, or doing a web business.

I'm already satisfied with my large women's clothes collection. A big Lotto win would only let me afford expensive designer clothing. And I would not get a sex change.

[beatriz]

all your ideas are good, i dont have a pension or retirement money, so what i will do is put that money in a trust so it give me money for the rest of my live, i give some money to my family and i travel enfemme as long as i can....make a house with interior little pool and a interior garden with big fence to avoid intruders looking..and be infemme all day....

[cassandra54]

here's what i would do, assuming i won a large jackpot. it's funny i was talking with my SO about this just today.
1. Dental Implants.
2. A face lift. Not FFS, kind of unisex so that i could be either my male or female part.
3. Fixing everything else on my body that is in need of repair or worn out.
4. Laser hair removal.
5. Investments, financial planning so that I could increase my wealth and live well.
6. Piano lessons, voice lessons and creative endeavors.
7. European delivery of a new Porsche, BMW or Mercedes along with maybe a month or two of touring Europe and the U.K.
8. A month or two each year in various parts of the world.
9. Charitable work.

I already live in a nice house, drive a nice car and so on. My lifestyle wouldn't change a whole lot.

[Jorja]

Are you SURE it's the biggest pot going? I think I'll need it! :D

I would set up a fund for each of my younger cousins and Crystal Alberta's niece and nephew to pay for their schooling wherever they wanted to go (also I would throw in some for my own future kids). My granny is in her 70s and still working: she can never hold on to money and has no savings because she gives it all away to televangelists, so I would put some in a trust account for my social-worker aunt and uncle to manage as her executors for when she cannot keep up with her house anymore and needs to either hire a carer or go to a long term care home. Other than my granny, I wouldn't give money to my family: they all have ways of making their own and it's kind of demeaning to say, 'here, accept charity because clearly you are making squat for money!' None of my family I am close to have debt other than the fact that my brother and his new wife bought a house together, and so I would feel totally fine with giving them a chunk towards their house but not the whole amount: I mean, it's their house and not mine, and I would just want to make sure that they had enough equity in their home to deal with it comfortably if they had something horrible happen to them and neither could work for a few years.


I would give a bunch of money to the Nature Conservancy of Canada so they can help protect vulnerable Grizzly Bear habitat on the west coast and help preserve the Y2Y corridor. I would set up a grant foundation to give money for enhancements to my favourite museums based on how they would decide to spend it, I would pay for scholarships in Haiti so they can have their own citizens train as technicians, tradespeople, doctors, nurses, builders and all the other jobs they are short of. I would put aside money to help clean up areas where debris from the Japanese disaster are washing up in North America. I would fund a prize to be awarded to the organization, nation or individual who works out how to deal with the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

I would probably hire a personal assistant, to follow me around and keep track of where I put down my keys and my glasses. I would hire JaytoJillian to run Zumba classes for me :-). I would buy a smallish house (really, I would - I've lived in a big house and it is more trouble than it is worth!) and hire help to get the garden started up properly. I would get rid of any fricking kentucky blue grass, or brome grasses or anything else that was in the yard, and replace it with short native grasses so I don't really have to mow or water.

After I bought one of EVERYTHING off ModCloth, Irregular Choice and ThinkGeek, I would find an awesome indie designer somewhere in the UK, US or Canada and work with them to create any other clothes Crystal or I felt like having in recycled fabrics, peace silk, or organic cotton, linen, bamboo fibre or wool; hopefully they would be able to hire starting-out designers to work with them on internships in their workshop and be able to (with my funds) devote some of their time to sharing their skills by visiting schools in their local area to share tips with home ec classes. I would buy about fifty gazillion pairs of shoes: running shoes which are comfy, cute, and functional, hiking boots for summer, fall, and winter, climbing shoes, outdoor sports sandals, cute walking sandals, cute bike riding sandals, comfy ballet flats, awesome sneakers, snowboard boots that fit a little bit better, boating shoes, awesomely cute dancing shoes, high heels, wedges, and pretty much anything without those silly peep toes that always give me weird blisters and suck.

I would buy a vintage rolleiflex TLR camera and set up a dark room (so long as the weird chemicals needed didn't make me stop breathing). I would buy all the ridiculously cute cruiser bicycles a girl could want, and cheekily install a small motor-and-battery that would charge as I pedaled, then kick in to help take me up hills because I am absolutely rubbish at riding upwards. I would take weeks at a time off work so I could go on long trips around the world - I would find some way to kidnap Crystal along with me as much as possible. I would hike the West Coast trail, and bike the Romantic Road. I would backpack around Europe again, visit more of Asia, spend time in South America, Australia, Africa, and I would volunteer to work as an assistant on a research project in Antarctica so I could say I'd been on all the continents.


Hrm.. I can't think of anything more off the top of my head?! I think that's enough, though! :)

Does anyone else think Babeba has put some thought into this?

[ReineD]

Does anyone else think Babeba has put some thought into this?

You forgot one:



OOh! thought of another thing! I would make sure that cute little house I bought had extensive kitchen renovations, and I'd get a vintage Kitchen Aid from back when they were made with all-metal parts. When I travel, I would make sure that everywhere I went I had someone who was great at that style of cuisine teach me some of the basics of their food culture.

:D

Babs, I love your energy! :hugs:

[Eryn]

In semi-seriousness, if I were to suddenly become fabulously wealthy there is one thing that I would do before anything else.

I'd hire a level-headed person. Sign her to an well-paid and iron-clad contract that I can't break.

She'll have one job. She'll follow me around, observe what I am doing, and at appropriate moments whisper the following into my ear:

"You're about to do something stupid. Do you really want to end up like Howard Hughes, Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley?"

[Jessica86]

I have always said I would go into a low income part of town and just start handing out money. After splitting it several ways with family and all, I would buy Jessica a separate home. I would have a nice home, not really a mansion, but it would definately have to have a walk in closet!!!! I would stock all of my things over there. When I want to change, I would just drive over there, and be able to escape reality all together. I would buy her a car for herself so she wouldn't have to drive my male car around. I would be happy with just that. I honestly hope I never get rich. I have had rich friends, famous friends, and politician friends. It changes people, and none of them are my friends anymore.