1. I'd want to keep working, but not at my current job. So, that's gone.
2. My wife and I have dreamed about buying a butt-ton of land in the valleys near the coast, or maybe near my father, and building a kind of compound: 1 master house, 4 or 5 bedroom, home theater, all that. And then, behind it, a cluster of tiny homes in a similar style for friends to visit, or set up a nice atheist retreat. Call it 10 of them, with a courtyard between them all. Call it a total of, say, 5 million to buy the land and build it all. Oh, my 2 remaining sons could live in the house with us, or in the tiny homes, whatever.
2.5 While that's all being built, hire my sons to overlook and manage it all and then travel. I have never left the continent (unless you count sailing in Bahia De Los Angelos when I was a kid)..
3. Our niece and nephew were orphaned as children, and are both currently doing well in Salt Lake, but, to make things easier, buy an apartment building and hire the pair of them as the managers. They'd each get their own apartment, but they'd have to make their own money for other expenses.
4. I have a brother and a step brother, my wife has one brother. Screw it, $1m each, and that's all. My brother would just add it to his other millions and bank it (I'd probably set something up for his son as well), but my step-brother and brother-in-law could really use it.
5. My dad and mom (been divorced for nearly 50 years) are both doing well, but I would pay for a year in the locale of their choice, period. Give them an experience they wouldn't have otherwise. Same for my mother-in-law, maybe, although it would probably be better to pay for a year in a home for her to live out her dying days (beginning stages of alzheimers).
6. Nice cars. Not super extreme classics, but probably Teslas.
7. Maybe a couple of other, more modest homes in other areas. Nice condo in Portland for shows and such, maybe something in Scotland and NZ.
8. Finance an independent movie I really believed in.
9. Art. Buy some really nice art for the house. Again, not fancy (no Picassos, for example) but I have some fairly aggressive and eclectic tastes, and I could buy some stuff that really spoke to me without breaking the bank.
2. My wife and I have dreamed about buying a butt-ton of land in the valleys near the coast, or maybe near my father, and building a kind of compound: 1 master house, 4 or 5 bedroom, home theater, all that. And then, behind it, a cluster of tiny homes in a similar style for friends to visit, or set up a nice atheist retreat. Call it 10 of them, with a courtyard between them all. Call it a total of, say, 5 million to buy the land and build it all. Oh, my 2 remaining sons could live in the house with us, or in the tiny homes, whatever.
2.5 While that's all being built, hire my sons to overlook and manage it all and then travel. I have never left the continent (unless you count sailing in Bahia De Los Angelos when I was a kid)..
3. Our niece and nephew were orphaned as children, and are both currently doing well in Salt Lake, but, to make things easier, buy an apartment building and hire the pair of them as the managers. They'd each get their own apartment, but they'd have to make their own money for other expenses.
4. I have a brother and a step brother, my wife has one brother. Screw it, $1m each, and that's all. My brother would just add it to his other millions and bank it (I'd probably set something up for his son as well), but my step-brother and brother-in-law could really use it.
5. My dad and mom (been divorced for nearly 50 years) are both doing well, but I would pay for a year in the locale of their choice, period. Give them an experience they wouldn't have otherwise. Same for my mother-in-law, maybe, although it would probably be better to pay for a year in a home for her to live out her dying days (beginning stages of alzheimers).
6. Nice cars. Not super extreme classics, but probably Teslas.
7. Maybe a couple of other, more modest homes in other areas. Nice condo in Portland for shows and such, maybe something in Scotland and NZ.
8. Finance an independent movie I really believed in.
9. Art. Buy some really nice art for the house. Again, not fancy (no Picassos, for example) but I have some fairly aggressive and eclectic tastes, and I could buy some stuff that really spoke to me without breaking the bank.
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