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Topic: If you won Powerball...

Posted By: DzinerGirl
Subject: If you won Powerball...
Date Posted: 02 October 2008 at 9:44am

what would you spend it on?

As a spin off of the other thread I thought this could be fun!

I would..

buy some land in Karaka and build my dream home
Be relieved we don't have to get a loan to pay for wedding and Europe honeymoon
give some $$$ to each of mine & DF's family members
Leave work and start my own business (earlier and with less stress than already planned)
Donate to SPCA
Invest in other small businesses and other ventures

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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 02 October 2008 at 9:48am

I would:

Pay off mine, my parents, my inlaws and my friends mortgages
Ring Clariages in England and book it for a night and state that Gordon is to cook, serve and eat with us - Would take my family and a few other Gordon loving people.
Have a few great holidays with and without the boys
Pay for the woman who have breast cancer to have that drug for the year.
And probably buy a few investment properties over the country.

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I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived!

Posted By: DzinerGirl
Date Posted: 02 October 2008 at 9:52am

mummy_becks wrote:

I would:

Pay off mine, my parents, my inlaws and my friends mortgages

Ring Clariages in England and book it for a night and state that Gordon is to cook, serve and eat with us - Would take my family and a few other Gordon loving people.

Have a few great holidays with and without the boys

Pay for the woman who have breast cancer to have that drug for the year.

And probably buy a few investment properties over the country.

Oh Oh hands up for the Gordon dinner

Posted By: Daizy
Date Posted: 02 October 2008 at 10:01am

I would buy a house!
DH would have a recording Studio built into the house
Help Family and Close friends pay off Debts
Do a Photography Course Get a really good camera and take photos
Have some long holidays with and without family
Save

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Posted By: minik8e
Date Posted: 02 October 2008 at 10:21am

DF and I and a couple of our freidns were talking about this last weekend...

Buy the house we fell in love with which has sheds and workshops galore for DF and a dishwasher for me
Pay off our parents and friends mortgages
Renovate our current house and rent it out or sell it
Buy midgets (speedway race cars) for everyone in the pit crew who wanted one
Buy a BIG bus specially modified to carry the midgets around the country for racing, which comes complete with nursery for the kids
Start having babies right now
Probably buy my wedding dress direct from Jane Yeh instead of having it made here in NP
Ummmm.....buy me a Holden Commodore station wagon!!!!

Those are some of what we came up with LOL

I would probably also give up working here, and start buying (crap) houses, renovating them and selling them again.

Posted By: clover
Date Posted: 02 October 2008 at 10:25am

Buy some land and build our dream house
Buy an apartment in Wellington for now
Two new cars (a BMW X3 for me!)
Go visit my parents in Switzerland then travel through Africa
Start babymaking NOW!
Give some to siblings
Then invest whatever is left

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Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 02 October 2008 at 10:59am

Pay off any outstanding debts that we have.
Buy a house with land
Invest
Take a world tour, hire a nanny and a teacher so the kids could still get some kind of education
Buy a bach or my own island
Buy a Ford Territory 7 Seater for me and something for DH.

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Mr Mellow (16)
Miss Attitude (8)
Destructa Kid (3)

Posted By: jaz
Date Posted: 02 October 2008 at 11:07am

Get a bigger house.
Go see my sister in Europe.
Get some investments going so I didn't have to work full time forever.
Make sure the kids had a fund set up for University.

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Posted By: Parki
Date Posted: 02 October 2008 at 11:25am

Firstly - faint!

Pay off:
- Our mortgage
- Dads mortgage
- Mums Mortgage
- Parents in law mortgage
- Buy our 5 siblings a house for their choice up to $500,000 and invest $500,000 each for them.
- Buy our dream home.
- Travel the world.
- Go on a wicked shopping spree.
- Quit working and be an active volunteer for WSPA.
- Buy DH his business.
- Buy a new car.
- Invest the rest.....

LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER!

Posted By: susieq
Date Posted: 02 October 2008 at 11:33am

Buy a house

Posted By: susieq
Date Posted: 02 October 2008 at 11:34am

and probably some land for a group of special needs adults where they have recreation opportunities on the premises like a swimming pool

Posted By: susieq
Date Posted: 02 October 2008 at 11:36am

and maybe in Auckland a place like the old Karitane Hospitla from the Hebron school buy it back so that a few of us ex karitanes could do something there to help Mums in Auckland

Posted By: WRXnKids
Date Posted: 02 October 2008 at 1:31pm

Put it in the bank and just use the $30,000 it would earn me a week

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Posted By: NovemberMum
Date Posted: 02 October 2008 at 1:59pm

probably sit there in shock....lol

these are the things i would do

pay off my student loan
pay off the mortgage on this house
find a nice piece of land (maybe one with already a house on it and removed that) and build our dream home
give some money to family
pay off my inlaws mortgage
pay off my parents mortgage
take a trip overseas
put the rest in the bank and live off the interest.

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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 02 October 2008 at 2:09pm

Pay off the mortgage, my student loan, go on a holiday then probably get a bigger house with land so I can have a horse again and then shove it in the bank and live off the interest

Posted By: SMoody
Date Posted: 02 October 2008 at 4:11pm

I would look at houses.

Grants response is to keep very very very quiet and put it away and just use interest on stuff but all hush hush. Wont even really tell family and will rather help people out without them knowing it comes from him.

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Posted By: Mikaela
Date Posted: 02 October 2008 at 8:18pm

DH and I love playing this game.

We would:

Buy our dream block of land on Cheltenham beach in Devonport
Build our dream house on it, and a little cottage for my parents to stay in when they visit
Buy a couple of new cars but nothing too fancy
Buy a 'bach' (hehehe) in Queenstown/Wanaka
Keep 1 mil to play with - shopping, travel etc
Invest some
Spread the rest around family and charities

We can dream...

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Posted By: Jennz
Date Posted: 02 October 2008 at 9:56pm

I would:

Buy a house and a holiday home (plus fancy bits like cars and furniture of course!)
Put 1 mil each for the girls in a trust
Give a decent amount to family & close friends so they can pay of their mortgages and have a bit of spending
Set up scholarships and funds for charities so that the capital reinvests inflation and then they can spend the interest
Invest any left over

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Jen, Charlotte 7 & Kate 3

Posted By: MissAngel
Date Posted: 03 October 2008 at 8:03am

I Would:
* Pay off families debts
* Spend the rest on random crap.

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