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In reply to the discussion: the powerball billion UPDATE [View all]Roland99
(53,345 posts)Buying a few hundred acres near where I am now and building multiple houses and moving close family/friends (and some neighbor friends) there...and building a wicked cool lazy river connecting all the houses.
But, with that much freakin' money that I could never possibly spend it all and certainly not setting up kids/grandkids to where they'd never work (not raising "trust fund kids" but not leaving them with nothing either), I'd be setting up endowments and scholarships at my alma mater high school and university and also schools here in this area. Oh, the charitable donations and research funding I'd setup for cancer (r.i.p, Pop) and heart disease (my late father-in-law).
I'd fund artistic creativity in schools and help provide whatever instruments and tools and supplies needed for children willing to learn and helping parents who are trying to get their kids to explore their creative side. Perhaps even open some type of school for all kinds of creative endeavors (music, painting, sculpting, even computer creativity like gaming and programming)
Travel...
a new car for me (passed 12 years last month and less than 1,000 miles away from 200,000 miles on it)
Sponsoring my own kind of Make a Wish foundation to help children with illnesses, disabilities, etc. be able to live out a dream.
Fund job training and counseling services for injured and homeless Vets. Might even open a housing complex that could become a standard for cities/states across the country.
oh gosh...the ideas have only just begun