Look, we can all dream and envision a better life for ourselves and our families. I think that’s how we get through the day to day of the electric about to be turned off or the mortgage a month behind. So indulge me for a moment and read how I would blow 5 million dollars.
The List
Buy a plantation looking house, complete with columns and a balcony. It would have at least 5 bedrooms, a media room and a pool.
Employ a maid (I don’t have to do laundry anymore! Rejoice!) and a chef for a few nights of the week. I’m not cooking if I don’t have to. Additionally, I would have a personal trainer to get my flabby ass in shape.
I would get the following cosmetic surgeries (yes, I am that vein): Botox and Restylane. If I grow a pair, I would additionally get implants and a nose job (I have a Roman nose).
I would set aside $100k for each of my sons’ for college funds.
I would pay off my in-law’s home, my sister’s home and my sister in law’s condo. Additionally, I would buy my mother and other sister a house. Nothing grand, but something to call their own.
I would trade in my 2003 corolla with 259,000 miles, for a Lexus hardtop convertible as well as a Lincoln Escalade SUV. Need to be ballin’ at soccer practice.
I would learn how to fly. You heard me. I’ve always wanted to learn!
I would take my sons on long needed vacations to places like Paris, Jamaica and Hawaii.
Additionally, I would take my sons on a Royal Caribbean cruise and we would stay in the suite that has 2 floors.
I may start a winery.
We would probably move to Los Angeles if I knew I had the money to fly back to Ohio to visit family whenever, or fly family out to us whenever.
I would have over the top New Years Eve parties. Like Studio 54 parties. They would be ridiculous and decadent.
I have gone SO LONG without buying myself a proper wardrobe that I would go crazy shopping ALL THE TIME. I love fashion but it’s had to go on the back burner if I want to feed my family and keep the lights on.
Ok, so that is my list. Don’t lie, you know you day dream about things you would buy if you were loaded. What would you buy? How would your life change? It’s freeing to dream about stuff like this, isn’t it?
I wouldn’t go TOOO crazy. Id pay off my student loans and my brothers. Id buy out my parents mortgage. Id buy an apartment and a car and put the rest into savings….maybe half savings (for future travels and the like) and half retirement funds.
But lets be real… your apartment would be totally tricked out! Right?
LOL probably not! After spending the last few years constantly moving, I like just having a really simple place.
Gee thanks, what about my house??? 🙁
Oh Lord, of course as long as buying it out doesn’t include half of my 5 million!! We are paying off mortgages between $50k and $200k. What is yours so I can add it to the list? ???
Ha – That’s fine. I’d like to have a place there, so maybe something in downtown Canal Winchester. That’s all I need.
Now could you win the lottery?
Now your talkin’! I can do that!
I’d like to think my life wouldn’t change that much, except for the whole not-showing-up-to-work-anymore dealio. I’d spend my time traveling and doing cool stuff like volunteering….after maybe a month of doing ABSOLUTELY NADA. 🙂
It sounds like that would be a huge change, unless you travel a ton now. I would travel too! God wouldn’t that be great?
I travel a good bit now….but if I’m independently wealthy, I get to choose the when and the where. Big difference…. 🙂