If You Won The Lottery...

[Fierce Critter]

... would you stay with the person you are currently with?

This is the way Dr. Joy Brown used to get to the bottom of whether a person was staying with a person for the right reasons.

I've often thought about that question. In regard to myself, and others.

Even in the worst of times with Jon, my answer has been "Yes."

Because I would love to see him sitting by the side of a lake, doing his woodworking with the best tools available, eating good, healthy foods, and smiling, working only for himself and me, and not concerned over anything.

In the worst of times, I would have spent that lottery money on counseling, therapy, medication, rehabilitation, whatever necessary.

Probably not a great thread for sharing if you feel the opposite, especially if your partner is on this board, but wanted to share anyway.

[Hellion]

Since I am single for life,and with all that money I would leave the country,and vanish for good,only certain friends and relatives would know where I am at,and yes it would be nice to be debt free.

[creatureofthenyte]

I'm single,

I don't know whether or not I will be single for life or not, and Im not concerned about that right now.

I have given this subject of winning the lottery lots of thought over the years.

Some thoughts Ive had are:

If I meet a new woman, and things happen between us, at some point I will have to try and determine if she is with me for the right reason(s).

Its been excrutiatingly difficult to find a good woman these days, (hence why I've not been trying to lately) so if I win the lottery, I believe That could make it even More difficult to find myself a good woman, who will be with me for the right reasons.

Now, if I was with someone right now, to answer Camille's question in this thread, Yes I would stay with whomever Im with(if I was with someone) as long as the relationship stays good and she stays with me for the right reasons.

[Shade Everdark]

I would not.

I would run as far the fuck away from me as the money would allow.

[freydis]

Definately.

David has some pretty kickass hobbies, and I think he'd be so much happier if he could just spend his time blacksmithing stuff for *himself*, not having to worry about holding down a 9-5. I'd love to see that. And honestly, I wouldn't want to grow old with anyone else.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Yes. We would buy a valley somewhere, build our dream house, build Kim's hobby/baking house and my tower. I so dream of going "to work" in a wizard style tower.... at least 100 ft tall wth a greenhouse/observatory on top.... spend our days tending to the land and animals... fuck the rest of the world.

[Vivian]

*cheers* I won the lottery!!!!!!! Yay!!!!

okay, so I only won two dollars for matching the power ball thing from megamillions.. But its a start! And my mate and I have this deal. I usually play the lottery and keno, on the off chance that I might get lucky. And we have agreed, that If we won, we would split the money down the middle. I would like to say i would hope we would stick together, but see less of each other, but I dunno.

Seriously, love keeps you together. We've been through so much, I would hope that if we had money, that we'd stay together. But money sometimes changes a person. All I know now, is that I would stay with him.

So, I'm two dollars richer. What to do with my proceeds? *grins*

~Viv

[sass_in_the_pants]

Would I stay with Guy even if I had more money?

Well, I make more money than him now, so I suppose it wouldn't be too different if I had gobs more of it.

We've talked before about what we would do if we won the lottery and he has already stated his intention to give it all to some charity bullshit to save ugly animals that no one else cares about because they're ugly. Fucker. I swear to god, if I won the lottery and he donated all of our money to charity THEN I'd leave his ass because I'd be so damn mad at him.

But, otherwise, no, I think I'll keep him.

He's nice and he's pretty to look at.

[Reaper]

Things wouldn't change relationship-wise with me. But I would pay off my family's debts so none of us would be bolted down all the time. Then I would buy that 1995 Lamborghini Countach or Diablo that I have always wanted. And buy a comfy 300k house or so. I don't need anything bigger where I have to take a golf cart to get to the kitchen.

[Msterbeau]

Yes. We would buy a valley somewhere, build our dream house, build Kim's hobby/baking house and my tower. I so dream of going "to work" in a wizard style tower.... at least 100 ft tall wth a greenhouse/observatory on top.... spend our days tending to the land and animals... fuck the rest of the world.

I'll go with your general idea but I want my place up on a hill rather then down in the valley. I'll put a secret path down to a more secluded place in the valley so I have a protected place as well. Land... critters.. family and friends. A few hobbies. Works for me.

A have no significant other and I'm not sure I'd bother trying to find one. Once you're rich, you'd never know if they love you just for you. :-/

[Nienna]

My relationship status wouldn't change. My relationships with pretty much anyone I have one with wouldn't change either.

I would however, take certain people in my life to travel the world with me.

[Jadis]

I'm not currently in a situation where I need to worry about if I'll stay with someone or not. But I'd be extra careful about the people I let into my life if I did win! If I was with someone when I hit the lotto .. I'd like to think that I'd use some of that money to set us up in a modest, comfortable life. We'd both still work (but I'd probably take a job at the kids school as the lunch mom or hall monitor or something.. and I wouldn't mind if he did something he enjoyed that didn't pay much cause it's what he loves) and we'd not have to worry about the bills or the other stresses that money causes. I'd have the kids education payed for ... and they'd still have to learn the value of money. I wouldn't just give them everything they wanted. Most of it would be invested.

If the person I was with didn't like that plan ... I'd pay him to go away.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Marc,

I think you would like the place we have in mind. Ever drivin down M55 west out of Houghton Lake? If you have you would notice a huge hill a few miles south of the road that goes for miles and miles. That is the boundry line for the last Ice age. We used to live at the base of it on the south side. The top of that hill is a mile wide. it some places the top also has a valley. Once such valley has 15 acres of flat land that is 150feet lower than the top of the hill. There are two smaller hills in the valley tjhat reach the height of the main hill.. one for the house, one for my tower... The valley is protected from major weather and winds... has water and fertal growing land.

The actual plan is to build a 10' stone wall along the top of the valley with spots for small animals to get in and out, but keep the bears and larger predators... cougers, coyotee and such out. Start a small farm with a vegatable garden, fruit trees and live stock (one or two cows, chickens and a pig or two). Enough to live off the land with a minimal purchases in town. Sat internet and an ip phone and we are set. Just need about 7 million to do it.

[Head Wreck]

yes i would stay with my current partner. were inseperable. infact i will buy more mirrors to admire my partner in.

i would use the money to settle myself in, then put some into an ISA (an untaxed high return savings account but you can only put so much in a year), and the rest in another savings account and work part time using the part time work to pay bills and the interest of the savings to pay for frivolties as and when if i really need it, little hobbies like building a self sufficient house that generates a little power and heating and conserves as much as i can (aim to be come as self sufficient as possible)

[bean]

Yes, I would stay with my partner if I won the lottery. I would pay off my debts and whatever he needed to have taken care of, and we would travel all over the world.

[Vivian]

I've changed my mind. I can do that, right? Well if I won the lottery, I would move into a house by myself, and have lar move into his own house. Just so I can get some privacy and not have to deal with his whining and yelling. I would then invite all of dgn over for a house warming party. Fly in those who are out of state/country/half way across the world *HW*. After all of that, i would donate money towards cancer in general and if I won enough money, start up my own homeless shelter. *sigh* Detroit doesnt have enough shelters.

[cptdeath]

i did i won eight dollars. i split it with my date. keno i try one I win one

[know_buddy_kares]

the only thing that would change is the ones i talk to would be the only ones I would stay in touch with and share my money with. I'm sorry, but I wouldn't have any consideration for newfags that only start talking to me after I'd win the money, it would be so obvious what they really want. At least the people I have in my life now I know the friendship is genuine. As for a SO, yeah I'm sure more would come knocking, but fuck them.

[Kit Kat P]

We've always said that if we win the money that we both sign the ticket and split it so that legally we're secure. From there, who knows.

[hunhee]

Hmm.. If I won the lotto, I would probably remain as I am now, I doubt there would be many changes. I would make sure the ones I love are well taken care of, I would make sure that my ex would make it out to California, I would make sure his mom/grandma didn't lose their house, and then I would put the rest of the money away in a self directed IRA and to my 401K (you can only put in 14,000 a year max).. I have heard that Paypal pays 5+ percent interest, that's also not a bad idea cause 5% of 1,000,000 is 50,000 that's more than what I need in one year (without bills). Live off the interested and never touch the principal.

Oh yeah, I would also donate a huge chunk to DGN

[Daevion]

Pay off the man....then become an adventurer looking for trouble and helping people....guess I don't really need that much money to do the second part.

[Onyx]

That is a really good way to ask yourself how you feel about your partner. It's sad to me when people stay together just because of money (or lack of money).

I would want to stay in the relationship I'm in now, yes. It wouldn't really change things that much except we would see each other more often and would have a lot more places to go. We are both workaholics so we really both do pretty well financially. I'd work but at a fun business and also do more writing. (Actually I'm trying to get a few things like that started right now, even without the millions).

I see this topic drifting away from the original intent - it was would you stay with your partner, not what you'd do with the money. *off to start a new topic about just that*

[Daevion]

apparently my post should be in the other thread

[Kit Kat P]

Actually i was trying to stay on topic, but I was vague. We've decided to split the money, I know I would move but I don't know what she would do.