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Nope--- $100,000. And let me ask this - would it be enough for you to "take a break" for a couple of years???

If take a break means not go to my real job, I could easily miss 2 years of work. 3 years if I became uberthrifty with the $100K.

alphabits wrote:I'd buy a boat ..... and a pony ..... and go out on the ocean.

aren't you a little old for a pony?

sunseeker wrote:Nope--- $100,000. And let me ask this - would it be enough for you to "take a break" for a couple of years???

$50k/year post-tax w/out major bills? easy

surfpirate wrote:Alter the parameters a bit.

You've got a $100,000 windfall ...... we all know that we could/should/would do something practical and charitable and decent.

But ......

Pretend you don't have to .... that this is $100,000 to spend ridiculously, stupidly and frivolously on YOURSELF, with no guilt. So let's think cars, jewelry, trips and just for the heck of it forget about charity the well being of others.

Spoil yourselves. What would you buy or do?

OK let's play
Take Southbound 35 to see a Pat Green Show
Rent a Red convertible ‘ 65 and Take a Nephew (real or adopted) (OK Adopted) and make the Pascagoula run to Stars fell on Alabama I can jjust hear ETP say.. "OH dear lord...
Take some friends and take three days to drive through the keys, Hire a driver/limo bus and stop everywhere,
Gather a crew and make lunch last forever
Buy a firearm or two I don’t need
Take a trip to Africa to hunt Cape Buffalo and Crocodile (with some smaller game also)
Hire Gruene Hall and invite my BN friends for a Private Roger Creager show
Take a ten day trip to Key West for my 50th birthday
Take some friends to Lanai.. I haven’t been in 30+ years and I don’t want to go alone
Throw a mighty party



that should still leave some Stripper $$$

sunseeker wrote:Nope--- $100,000. And let me ask this - would it be enough for you to "take a break" for a couple of years???

no I could not replace my job that easy..
I like what I do.. (most days)

ragtopW wrote:

surfpirate wrote:Alter the parameters a bit.

You've got a $100,000 windfall ...... we all know that we could/should/would do something practical and charitable and decent.

But ......

Pretend you don't have to .... that this is $100,000 to spend ridiculously, stupidly and frivolously on YOURSELF, with no guilt. So let's think cars, jewelry, trips and just for the heck of it forget about charity the well being of others.

Spoil yourselves. What would you buy or do?

OK let's play
Take Southbound 35 to see a Pat Green Show
Rent a Red convertible ‘ 65 and Take a Nephew (real or adopted) (OK Adopted) and make the Pascagoula run to Stars fell on Alabama I can jjust hear ETP say.. "OH dear lord...
Take some friends and take three days to drive through the keys, Hire a driver/limo bus and stop everywhere,
Gather a crew and make lunch last forever
Buy a firearm or two I don’t need
Take a trip to Africa to hunt Cape Buffalo and Crocodile (with some smaller game also)
Hire Gruene Hall and invite my BN friends for a Private Roger Creager show
Take a ten day trip to Key West for my 50th birthday
Take some friends to Lanai.. I haven’t been in 30+ years and I don’t want to go alone
Throw a mighty party



that should still leave some Stripper $$$

figure out a way to get my Partner in crime to a Zac Brown show

sunseeker wrote:Nope--- $100,000. And let me ask this - would it be enough for you to "take a break" for a couple of years???

Add this $100,000 to what I already have in savings and investments, I could probably go 5 years, minimum, without working. Longer if the market hadn't crashed last year. That would bring me to 62 and I could start collecting social security. But by then I'd be pretty close to broke.

I'd probably keep out about a quarter of it ($25K) and keep on working. Out of the $25K I'd probably buy myself a better used car and a new bike; this would still leave me some WAM ('Walking-Around Money') to chase at least one JB concert and maybe a couple of other phlockings per year.

I'd sock the rest of it into a CD and start making plans for five years from now, when could I tell the boss to 'take this job and shove it'; sign up for Uncle Sugar's monthly handouts; claim my pension from my previous job(s); and then just sit back and watch everybody else scamper for the all-mighty dollar.

-"BB"-

RinglingRingling wrote:

alphabits wrote:I'd buy a boat ..... and a pony ..... and go out on the ocean.

aren't you a little old for a pony?

Chronologically - probably. Mentally - nope!

Do something nice for my friends and family....maybe buy everyone front row seats to go see Jimmy....

alphabits wrote:

lime rickie wrote:

alphabits wrote:I'd buy a boat ..... and a pony ..... and go out on the ocean.

With both?

If I had a boat
I'd go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony
I'd ride him on my boat
And we could all together
Go out on the ocean
Me upon my pony on my boat

I love it when Tall Paul plays this and we all go up front and sign the song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSZOuJqp9Ac


I would use half the money to travel, go to all the Parrothead events I wanted to and give a big chunk to my son and his family so they could buy a car or whatever they need.

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:I'd use it to pay my kids' college tuition and $100K wouldn't cover it.

Me too.... But since I do have two years saved (I had three but the market....well you), the 100K would cover her last two years......


I would love to go to Hawaii for my 30th wedding anniversary next June.....maybe for my 40th.......

I wonder if Jimmy would play a private concert for that much/that little?

Otherwise, I could buy a small (float) plane and get my daughter to fly me around to interesting places, satisfying some of my wanderlust and getting her hours up to a high enough level to get a real job....

Put $25K in savings and use the rest to take as many of you to St Barts with me as I could.
Seriously.

ScarletB wrote:Put $25K in savings and use the rest to take as many of you to St Barts with me as I could.
Seriously.

Frivously speaking, and if I didn't have a wife and keets I'd take 3 years off to surf the Mexican Pipeline, Puerto Escondido...
Surf all day



Drink with the locals all night

I'd love to give it to a group trying to open a no kill animal shelter in my town.


If it were to be spent on me, I'd buy property in Michingan's Upper Peninsula...

i would help start my life over in Florida!!..would help me get by until i found a job!!!!

Frivously speaking...
I'd seriously buy a pony...a horse actually. I'd really like to get back into showing horses like I did in school. I could take time off work and concentrate on riding as my primary activity, since I wouldn't have to work.