In The Lap of Luxury

[PrincessPerky]

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Education center, devoted to teaching any and all who want to learn, and devoted to raising awarness of educational opportunities in the home, car, ect.

so that more people would 'teach as they go' instead of waiting for the schools to do it.

[vishenda]

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luxurious vacations!

[Joan.of.the.Arch]

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Buy the two properties on either side of me. Pay the inner city youth rehab group to update them for rental. Hire one of them to manage the rentals. Hire my brother to design and install for me the best solar electric and wind generators we could work out among the three properties. Also replace that old furnace I've mentioned.

Rehab hundreds of other old homes around the city, doing so as "greenly" as possible.

Get a really quality sofa that always is supportive of my bad back.

Find out whether custom made shoes are as luxuiously comfortable as I imagine they are!

Loan my friend the $$$ to get started in a quilt and sewing business.

Start a micro-grant fund for homeschool families. Could fund things from $10 to $500. Could fund small things such as the purchase of a pack of origami paper, tickets to the natural history museum, tools for building a dog house.

Visit eastern Europe before it changes too much more! Take my friend D'with me!

Buy riverfront properties in Minnesota, northern Iowa. Employ local people to take care of them and oversee their use by selected others when my family is not using them.

Start an apple orchard in Keosauqua, Iowa. (Someone else's dream that is just so romantically down-to-earth, that I got drawn into it.)

Open non-government, non-religious, non-profit community centers where people could get rooms for group use. (I always find it is hard for small groups with little money to find a place to get together.)

Run a campaign to reduce commercial packaging. (Look for ideas such as stores must receive back from customers all packaging they sold to consumers and must prove of safe disposal/recycling. Maybe a deposit on packaging materials so that consumers do bring it back)

Hire a personal chef.

Build my Mom and a couple of her friends a nice, comfortable home together with all the assistance of any kind they could need, but in which they run the show, not their helpers.

Give my neighbor who is a severely burned out middle school teacher a stipend to go back to school and study the field she has always really wanted to work in, but didn't believe she was smart enough for.

Start a trust for the mentally ill in my city, so that monetary resources need not determine what medicines, or therapies, or living situations they wind up with.

Employ anyone willing to help clean up my ugly dirty city and to add lots of decent landscaping which would incorporate plenty of fruit trees. Hire a couple dozen incredibly talented landscape designers to figure out what to do where.

Have a daily, hour long massage. Ahhhh!

Tell the receptionist at my dentist office to slip my phone number in the hand of anyone she suspects will not be getting the dental work they need because of the expense of it.

Provide the $$$ for the public libraries to have longer hours, seven days a week.

Well, I guess I easily ran through a lot more than $40 million just now....

Hmm, maybe I'd finally get cable or satellite TV!

[Ima saver]

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Make my husband quit working so much and let him persue his dream of building his own hot rod. Buy a little condo near the beach so we could winter there.

[humandraydel]

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Hike the Appalachian Trail. Then the Pacific Crest Trail. Then the Continental Divide Trail. Then kayak down the Snake River and Colorado River. Then I'd find something else to do

[jodi]

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Stay home and have more babies
Travel once said babies are a little bigger.
Create a scholarship program for my local rural school so more kids can afford college. I'd probably donate a big chunk to Planned Parenthood as well.

And pay off my student loans, of course. I like the massage idea too!

[Broken Arrow]

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Stay home and have more babies

Hehehe. Somehow, I can't imagine your hubby complaining about that one. At least not during the initial stages of your master plan.

[LuckyRobin]

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Buy a villa by the sea in Italy, so Rose can pursue her artistic dreams at the fabulous art schools there, I can pursue my love of writing and cooking, DH can be surrounded by fabulous architecture to study, and Tobias, well, I'm sure he'd find something to do! His only interests tend to be trains and building things, so maybe architecture for him, too. The villa would be gorgeous but harness solar, wind, and geothermal energy in an aesthetically pleasing way, enough to meet all our energy needs.

Buy horses and a fully staffed stable.

Hire the best Italian/English speaking tutors I can find to homeschool my children while we are in Italy.

Travel every state in the U.S., every province or territory in Canada and Australia, visit England, Wales (especially Cardiff, just because), Scotland and Ireland, France and the rest of Europe.

Go back to college.

Set up a scholarship foundation for our current local high school to help pay for college for kids whose parents make too much for financial aid but are too far in debt to help pay for their children's education.

I don't want to save the world, though I do like the idea of those micro loans to help women in Africa set up their own businesses.

Develop a cheap to make non-petroleum dependant, non-polluting engine that runs on vegetable oil and is easy to build from scratch and easy to retrofit any existing vehicle from junkyard debris and publish the plans online for free.

Oh, and buy a small chocolate factory, because everyone deserves to have their own small chocolate factory.

[scfr]

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Tell my husband he could go ahead and pursue that dream of being a pro golfer.

[Duchesse]

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I'd raise animals so I could experience the miracle of birth everyday without the malpractice insurance.

[shengmei]

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I would pursue my passion of opening a rescue for cats.

Same here. We already have five rescued cats.

First though I would invest in a good security system. There are several people I know that could kill for 40 million dollars.

[tinapbeana]

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i've got a blog entry about this somewhere...

i would have 1mil spread out amongst enough MMAs at enough banks so as to always have that amount FDIC insured.

with the rest:

i would pay off all debt, including my house and my car. i would likely buy the really cute house across the street that went up for sale. then i would take a month long trip to argentina while contractors renovated the two houses (and i would put my mother on salary to be the job manager, that woman has a way!). i really like my neightborhood but it's starting to gentrify, so i might set-up a fund so my neighbors could apply for $ to do improvements and landscaping.

i'd let DH have a certain amount to buy whatever toys he needs, as long as he also gets a storage unit off-site since we don't have room in our yard for all of them!

donations to the humane society and women's shelter.

if i could find the right location, i'd also like to start-up a community learning and care center. it would offer day-care, budgeting classes, computer classes, reading classes, etc. as long as one could verify one is working, attending school, or looking for a job, one's children could attend the day-care free of charge.

[PRICEPLUS]

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I thought more about it and I would also like to purchase one or two bicycles I've had my eye on!

[dexter]

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I'd completely renovate my house. It's a old farm house and it needs a bit of work. LOL!

I'd love to build a cabin in the mountains. Take the fam on a nice vacation. Book spa/yoga retreats every other month for me.

[LuxLiving]

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I'd also travel some on land and by air as well as my original house-boat and food banks post and I'd do some more of our philanthropic giving thru building libraries in really small towns. I'm thinking of the movie Spencer's Mountain here - Think I'll go rewatch it today since we're iced in!

Just call me LuxAppleseed! I can just see myself traveling from town to town in my hippy-bippy RV cum bookmobile and rolling food bank and setting down roots for a month or ten and getting a small place bought and stocked with books* on one side and a food bank on the other! Yeah now that would be great!! I might even wear a heroine-cape while doing so!


*Speaking of which, do all you library ladies know that Dolly Pardon has a reading program that distributes books?