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catsittingstill · 04-15-2010, 08:40 PM

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I would keep the first month for myself. About half would go in taxes, with my blessing. The other half would pay off the mortgage, and our student loans, and the rest would get tucked into a combination of indexed stock funds, indexed bond funds, money market certificates and maybe some in a bog-standard savings account. Because our cars and stuff will break down one day and we will need new ones. (greedy look--maybe Priuses) Also we should have some money left over to fund the new library our county has been wanting since forever. Plus I will be able to fix the table on my Shopsmith, which is bent. And get a murphy bed for the guest room that I don't have to build. And go to Quetico on vacation.

OOOooo. Then I drop a million on the local free clinic, anonymously, so they can hire a doctor and a nurse for the year. Right now we have to turn people away because our doctors work there when they can afford to take a day off work and work for free. If we had a doctor working for us full time we could take patients every week day. That would be so cool.

Then I drop a second anonymous million on the free clinic to hire a dentist and a hygenist for the year. What I said above about having to turn people away goes double for the dentistry side.

Some people will point out that this is probably more than necessary. The excess can be used to buy prescriptions for those patients that can't afford their prescriptions, and the leftovers from that can go into the bank for next year.

Then I have about five friends I can think of who are in bad straits financially right now; I would arrange to drop a month's worth on each of them anonymously. So that would be eight months worth.

Then I would drop a million each on Planned Parenthood, Habitat for Humanity, and the Nature Conservancy.

I would use the last million to set up scholarships at the local state universities. Plus some left over for me to go back to college and take ANY CLASS I WANT. Kip too. Whatever he wants.

And for the entire year I would chortle myself to sleep each night, thinking about the sick children getting seen by the doctor and all the people whose teeth don't hurt, and how I can buy any book I want.

And for the next year, I like Steve Jordan's suggestions.

04-15-2010, 08:40 PM	#50
catsittingstill Guru Posts: 643 Karma: 551634 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: Kindle 1.0.8, iPod Touch, Kindle Keyboard	(boggle) I would keep the first month for myself. About half would go in taxes, with my blessing. The other half would pay off the mortgage, and our student loans, and the rest would get tucked into a combination of indexed stock funds, indexed bond funds, money market certificates and maybe some in a bog-standard savings account. Because our cars and stuff will break down one day and we will need new ones. (greedy look--maybe Priuses) Also we should have some money left over to fund the new library our county has been wanting since forever. Plus I will be able to fix the table on my Shopsmith, which is bent. And get a murphy bed for the guest room that I don't have to build. And go to Quetico on vacation. OOOooo. Then I drop a million on the local free clinic, anonymously, so they can hire a doctor and a nurse for the year. Right now we have to turn people away because our doctors work there when they can afford to take a day off work and work for free. If we had a doctor working for us full time we could take patients every week day. That would be so cool. Then I drop a second anonymous million on the free clinic to hire a dentist and a hygenist for the year. What I said above about having to turn people away goes double for the dentistry side. Some people will point out that this is probably more than necessary. The excess can be used to buy prescriptions for those patients that can't afford their prescriptions, and the leftovers from that can go into the bank for next year. Then I have about five friends I can think of who are in bad straits financially right now; I would arrange to drop a month's worth on each of them anonymously. So that would be eight months worth. Then I would drop a million each on Planned Parenthood, Habitat for Humanity, and the Nature Conservancy. I would use the last million to set up scholarships at the local state universities. Plus some left over for me to go back to college and take ANY CLASS I WANT. Kip too. Whatever he wants. And for the entire year I would chortle myself to sleep each night, thinking about the sick children getting seen by the doctor and all the people whose teeth don't hurt, and how I can buy any book I want. And for the next year, I like Steve Jordan's suggestions.