What Would You Do if You Won $100,000,000?

[Miggs]

I have no problem going to bed early. My kids are all 18 or older now. But I really struggle getting to sleep then staying asleep. If anything wakes me up at any time after I go to sleep I cannot get back to sleep. I try to control my bedtime ritual very closely. I don't eat or drink anything for 2 hours before I go to bed, if I can help it. I perform meditation most nights, I turn off electronics largely an hour or 2 before bed and read an actual ****ing book (they do still exist... Crazy!), I prefer to shower at night and that helps a little. But it's still a struggle. I'm pretty much resigned to it at this point. I do take medication, like Ambien, if I have something big planned the next day, but I have a really high tolerance for any of that stuff so it doesn't help much, but better than nothing. Through my doctor I've tried marijuana, edibles and vape, I won't smoke it, and it just makes me sick. It essentially does nothing to me until the dose is too high and I crash, which is worse then not sleeping in the first place. CBD by itself does nothing at all, at any dose. I've tried kratom, which is essentially the same as the marijuana, in that it doesn't do anything until it's too much. I've tried kava and maybe a half dozen other herbals. All have the same impact on me, which is to say basically none. Lately I've been dealing with seriously increased pain levels from my cancer surgeries, so I have a decent supply of narcotics on hand, which can put me to sleep but then I sleep like ****. So I've pretty much accepted it is what it is.

So if I won 100 mill, where I didn't have up wake up to an alarm every day, I could just sleep when my body and mind allowed me to sleep and I think I'd feel much better.

Ugh, sorry man. Have you tried melatonin? Do you sleep with a fan, preferably a loud one, on? Could you stop drinking even earlier? During that beginning of the year span, I tried to stop drinking between 5:30-6:30pm. I would hydrate a lot during the day so I wasn’t low and would resist drinking when I woke up in the middle of the night. That seemed to help me a little because I have bladder issues and get up too often. I basically went from getting up 3-5x to 2-3x by doing that.

 

[LogGrad98]

Ugh, sorry man. Have you tried melatonin? Do you sleep with a fan, preferably a loud one, on? Could you stop drinking even earlier? During that beginning of the year span, I tried to stop drinking between 5:30-6:30pm. I would hydrate a lot during the day so I wasn’t low and would resist drinking when I woke up in the middle of the night. That seemed to help me a little.

I've tried probably everything you've ever heard of for sleep, and some you probably haven't. Nothing really has any affect. I completely cut out caffeine about 6 years ago now and that helped, but there are some days I have no other choice. I sleep with a fan and humidifier and white noise, which mostly help with the staying asleep part. We even keep our room temperature controlled separate from the rest of the house. We got a new mattress over memorial day with our stimulus and that's been nice the first few nights.

Strangely enough the best thing I've found for getting to sleep is chamomile tea with nutmeg and honey. It's had the best impact on my sleep. But it's also inconsistent and doesn't pack enough of a punch most of the time. But I've gotten my best sleep with a chamomile and nutmeg tea on a Friday night where I can sleep all I want the next day. Undoubtedly a lot of it is psychological, but that has helped the most.

 

[Archie Moses]

I would purchase Bird Island on Utah Lake and build a shrine temple on it.

Then I would hire a mercenary, ninja, assassin on the dark web to hunt down as many pedophiles as possi

I have no problem going to bed early. My kids are all 18 or older now. But I really struggle getting to sleep then staying asleep. If anything wakes me up at any time after I go to sleep I cannot get back to sleep. I try to control my bedtime ritual very closely. I don't eat or drink anything for 2 hours before I go to bed, if I can help it. I perform meditation most nights, I turn off electronics largely an hour or 2 before bed and read an actual ****ing book (they do still exist... Crazy!), I prefer to shower at night and that helps a little. But it's still a struggle. I'm pretty much resigned to it at this point. I do take medication, like Ambien, if I have something big planned the next day, but I have a really high tolerance for any of that stuff so it doesn't help much, but better than nothing. Through my doctor I've tried marijuana, edibles and vape, I won't smoke it, and it just makes me sick. It essentially does nothing to me until the dose is too high and I crash, which is worse then not sleeping in the first place. CBD by itself does nothing at all, at any dose. I've tried kratom, which is essentially the same as the marijuana, in that it doesn't do anything until it's too much. I've tried kava and maybe a half dozen other herbals. All have the same impact on me, which is to say basically none. Lately I've been dealing with seriously increased pain levels from my cancer surgeries, so I have a decent supply of narcotics on hand, which can put me to sleep but then I sleep like ****. So I've pretty much accepted it is what it is.

So if I won 100 mill, where I didn't have up wake up to an alarm every day, I could just sleep when my body and mind allowed me to sleep and I think I'd feel much better.

I'm wired a lot like you and have tried everything you have. 4 hours of sleep is good for me. I wake up routinely twice a night where I have to get up.

I do take medication to help sleep and it works. Making it past the first month or so taking it at first was the hardest cause it messes with your brain. I've never taken ambien and never will probably.

 

[Jazzmix]

15) Approach the Millers about part ownership. Enough that it would get me a voice in meetings. I probably would not want to invest more than about 30M...which is probably only enough to net me 1-1.5% of the team.

Ryan Smith: "Hold my beer Wes".

 

[gandalfe]

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.

 

[gandalfe]

Ryan Smith: "Hold my beer Wes".

Yeah, that didn't age well.

 

[LogGrad98]

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 Dahia 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.

So you want to build Hearst Castle.

 

[gandalfe]

So you want to build Hearst Castle.

Well, the main house won't be 68,000 sq ft, but that kind of idea...

 

[LogGrad98]

Well, the main house won't be 68,000 sq ft, but that kind of idea...

If you've never been, Hearst Castle is stunning. A true monument to opulence and American excess.