HudsonHawk
I'll Lock Up
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I'm with you, tonyb, in that I'd keep it secret as long as possible. I once edited a manuscript of a woman who won a couple million dollars when she played the lottery with co-workers. Her experiences were quite eye-opening.
This is true...lots of stories about money making people miserable. However, getting back to just how much $1.3 billion is...you hear stories about someone who won say $10 million, and blew through it in five years. At that rate, it would take you 650 years to spend $1.3 billion. You'd have to spend nearly $3,000 per hour, every hour, 365 days/year, for 50 years to spend it. Even on drugs and hookers, it's nearly impossible to blow $1.3 billion.
For me? I'd like a nice house on a bit of land. Not a huge mansion - good grief. I wouldn't know what to do with myself with all that space!
I wouldn't buy too big of a house, simply because I wouldn't want to clean it. I suppose I could hire people to clean it, but then I'd have a house full of people all the time, which kind of defeats the purpose.
I'd have a nice cigar room, though. With big red chairs. They must be red.
My hubby would be the one I'd have to watch - he'd go nuts and buy all the classic cars he could.
The one car I'm certain I would buy would be a first generation Camaro. That was my "dream car" when I was young and first started noticing cars and girls. It would probably be from '67, my birth year.
I'd also buy my dad a 1960 Pontiac Bonneville, because that's the car that got him his first date with Mom. She's said many times she wasn't really interested in him, she just wanted to ride in that Bonneville. The rest, as they say, is the stuff of legends.
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