continuing my list~

Have the ROLLING STONES come over and play for my backyard BBQ...as the OPENING BAND! :carrot:

Wait a sec... are you trying to say that since this is some kind of fantasy thread, THAT'S why I'm all those things? - ya know, smart, kind, nice, sweet, adorable, hot and sexy. Ummm, because that's not necessarily the case. ;)

Speaking of fantasties, oh gosh I can't believe I'm about to say this - but yeah, when I was a teenager, oh so long ago, I'm 43 now, ummm, Mick Jagger, well, ummm yeah.

Gimmie Shelter is just about my very favorite song.

Of course you are all those things robin!

Although EZ is just looking for his sugar momma. DH calls me his sugar momma but I can't break it to him that I'm not a sugar momma :)

Oh I think it is a slim possibility that someone here could be a billionaire. They are rare (as Forbes states) but that doesn't mean its impossible. Although, I think billionaires would have better things to do in their time. Usually very busy people :)

First thing that comes to mind...liposuction and a new kitchen...done by CONTRACTORS...not my husband and I. Anything more than that is beyond my comprehention of cash value.

I keep this list in my purse, just in case our numbers were to hit. ;)

1) Pay off my parents farm so they can retire

2) Get long term care set up for my brother (he's mentally ill)

3) Dream home (here and in Oregon near DHs family)

4) Travel

5) SIL works as a midwife/nurse in an extremely poor area of Pakistan. I would like to help ease some of their financial burdens.

6) College fund for all my kids, neices and nephews

7) Tummy tuck!!!!

I'm not sure what charities right off. Currently we donate to Habitat, our church, and SIL's missionary agency. I would have to do more research to see where I wanted the money to go. But wouldn't that be fun research!!!

I'd buy the Colorado Rockies and increase the payroll so they could keep all the young talent that they have and really be able to contend, this year and in the years to come. Travel with the team and visit all the ballparks.
I'd also make sure my family was taken care of with whatever they wanted. Make sure that my nephews go to college and follow their dreams. Buy a private jet to travel the world. Hire a personal chef to make healthy good food!
And to steal some elses, set up foster homes for kids. What a great idea! I'd probably adopt a few kids too, you know like Brangelina.
What a fun thread!! Gary you've been starting all sorts of fun, thought provoking threads lately! Thanks!

I thought of some more things I'd want:
1. a personal trainer
2. a personal chef to cook all my healthy , delicious meals
3. a huge indoor heated pool with a removable roof to be able to use it all year long
4. A boob job, tummy tuck and butt implants
5. A huge warehouse to hold all my clothes, shoes, purses, belts, hats
6. a vault for all my expensive jewelry
7. new vehicles for all our kids
8. a live-in housekeeper
9. a guest house to keep adult kids out of my house, LOL
10. an in-home movie theater and basketball court.

Darn it, my lottery tickets keep being defective too.

Oh a personal trainer would be nice. I thought about the personal chef one as well but I think I'd rather take time to cook for myself if I had enough money to live a more leisurely life style.

And now for reality.

Local man DID hit the lotto here...$315 mil. He donated $5 mil to my parents' church building fund, and an additional $1 mil for their general fund. They built a really super nice church and have a large memorial plaque in the front entry dedicated to the man (Jack Whittaker), his wife and daughter. Whittaker is now, you guessed it, divorced. He's being sued by some women who claimed he sexually harrassed them at the local dog track. His granddaughter, whom he'd setup with I believe $20K a year for life, died of an OD. With that much money, she could afford her drugs. :( Whittaker has also had problems with drug abuse. He is currently facing possible jail time because of discrepancies in his accounts, and on and on. The man's life has been totally ruined.

I bet none of our fantasies would ever come close to real life. :(

Ahhh, now I get it. Us "billionaires" are a little slow sometimes. Especially the fake ones. All the buttering up in the world won't change the fact that I was kidding. (although I wish it would). It's such a far off thought, one that I can't even come close to imagining, that I don't even wanna make a list. :( . But it would be very similar to the ones that have already been posted. Including the Rolling Stones. Ahhhh....

Well that is why I think a supplementary question would be, Would you really want to become an instabillionaire? I've heard that most major lottery winners end up bankrupt. Managing money takes discipline. Not that I play the lottery, but if I did and if I happened to win, I don't think my life would change drastically.

All the things I listed on my "wish" list are basically things I plan to have happen in my life eventually anyway. The latest one is I would like to donate enough money or build something myself that would be described as a deluxe animal shelter. I think animals without homes should at least have some place "homey" to live.

I think it'd definitely depend on how you were raised, and whether or not you are already responsible with money. I'd like to think I'd be okay and it wouldn't change much about the way I live, but that's only because we've had to be very careful with money just to make ends meet, and it's hard breaking those habits. I think I'd probably go all out for a bit, but I'm really not an extravagant person and my roots will always be a "country" type of living.

Oh..... money is so overrated - Nelie, to answer your supplementary question, no, I would not want to suddenly be a billionaire.
As they say, "be careful what you ask for....."
EZ - it's fun to fantasize though, but I would not really want the fantasy to become reality. So if I were to fantasize? I have no quick answers but I'd be making lists and getting more informed as to what a billion dollars can do. I'd try to hide the fact that I had it so as to maintain a low profile from would-be moochers. I'd try to see how it all could help the most people long-term and do whatever I needed to do, travel wherever I needed to travel, to help to make sure that happened; goats for third-world countries or whatever.