I would pay for my srs. Go to a good college. Get a house built. Give to charaties and look into opening a couple of buisness dedicated to people with certain issues. Maybe like a LBGT school. Just thinking:)
Honest answers? I would probably get a bunch of cosmetic surgery, get SRS, then pay a surrogate to carry my child. And then I would go shopping.
I'd help my family out too, especially my brother and cousin.
Boring conservative answer: I would travel the worlds for years.
Move to somewhere in the world that is beautiful, awesome sunsets and untouched nature.. maybe france, italy or spain. But maybe also move when winter comes! The house would have to be huge and being a loner I'd thrive spending my days getting high and cooking radical dishes and other creative adventures! Maybe winter could be spent flying around the world visiting friends! *dreams* :O~
After taking care of my needs, and those closest to me, and making sure the future was reasonably secure... hmmm... well actually I think I would help out some people here who needed it to realise their needs, too.
Depending on how much. $100,000-$500,000 - buy a house for my mom and I (nothing big, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, single floor plan, a nice fenced in yard for my dog, in a nice quiet nature scenic location, oh and after surgery I'd definitely want a pool to swim in), a car (nothing extraordinary, so not anything expensive, so long as it runs), and surgery (sex reassignment surgery and shaving my adam's apple down a tad), that's about it, the rest of the left over money would be savings.
If say $1,000,000, all of the above plus my mom would want to make sure her grandchildren were taken care of, that they'd have a ton of money put aside for education after high school, even her other two children even after the terrible things they'd done to us, such as throwing us out on the street, my mom said that she would not leave them out, because still regardless of what they'd done they are family, even if they don't act much like it.
$10,000,000 or more, all the above, and well I like my life to be relatively simple with simple things, my mom and I would be able to live comfortably, not have to worry anymore about how we are going to make it this week or the next, that kind of money would last us a life time, especially if saved and earning interest off of it. My mom and I have had a conversation about this a few times recently, I told her I'd help out other transsexuals that were very lacking on money, really wanted surgery, MtF as well as FtM, obviously I'd have to get to know those individuals that I chose to help out, I got certain standards of how I'd chose, would be based off of my own morals though not as strict, can't expect everyone to live as I do, basically I wouldn't want to waste money on someone that even after surgery still continues to be unhappy with self, or self-destructive when it could've gone to someone else that would've appreciated it to the fullest without second guessing. Hey $1,000,000 would buy pay for a lot of surgeries. Why would I do this, ugh, I don't need that much money (I've never been greedy, heck I don't even pick up change off of the street), and know what its like to want something and feeling that you may never attain it.
First I would loose my ways, forget who I was and give in to temptation.
Then my good angel sister would shook me up, maybe even a slap on the cheek, would then give me a big hug and said; "now, lets fix your problem baby"
I would reluctantly agree, and hand over the money to her, she then would loose her ways and go of forgetting who she is.
I would feel betrayed, lost, much more than I have felt before the win.
But there would have been a lesson in that too.
I would have become more humble then ever before, more aware of how precious love is when its here.
How the morning sun fulfills my soul, how the drops of rain cleanse and renew, how strangers smile is yet another miracle.
I would square myself away, I would privately contact a few people here to help them with their transitions, and then start up two places where people who are forced out of their homes due to discrimination can run to.
Beyond that, I would donate to bat (flying mammal) research in CA and one or two environmental organizations. Maybe help a few African Lost Children as well.
Im loving this replies. I think most if us reach to give back to the trans community in some way.
Given that I don't play the lottery, I would probably be in complete shock that I actually won.
Pardon my obvious realism, but I've wondered about this one for many years (and yes, I occasionally buy a ticket).
a) pay 34% taxes on the whole bundle
b) pay off the mortgage and cars
c) give the spouse her 50% of the remaining bundle
d) quit my current job and take something more enjoyable
e) have all the cosmetic procedures I've always wanted (FFS, hair replacement, BA, etc.)
f) GRS/SRS - the whole thing
g) go shopping!!
Quote from: VeryGnawty on May 20, 2011, 05:59:35 AM
Given that I don't play the lottery, I would probably be in complete shock that I actually won.
Me too. Never played the lottery, never even bought scratch off tickets. Just figured it would be a waste of money and I'm not that lucky, but have been considering it lately. $10 every two weeks towards something like this, wouldn't kill me too much, sometimes that much or more gets wasted on other crap anyway, and well never know.
I haven't bought a ticket in years, but if I were to win something like this and if it were a decent sum (10 mil+)... First I would set aside money to pay for my own and my close friends' transition expenses. Then I would travel around the world for a while, at the same time looking for a place I might want to live. Then I would buy a house in said place, donate a good portion of the remaining money to a worthy charity or charities, invest the rest, and live my life normally (but with less stress and more vacations).
I would start by buying several properties to rent out to ensure an income for the rest of my life, then I would buy myself a large house somewhere in the midlands next to a canal & a 70 foot narrow boat.
I would buy my brother the pub he runs so that he can live his dream of owning his own pub & I would buy my mum the holiday home abroad that she's always dreamed of.
I would buy my ex girlfriend a couple of houses to rent out so that she could have a regular income, this is probably more to ease my troubled concience because of what i've put her through.
One of my female friends has been a rock for me these last few months so I would buy her a nice house for her & her 3 girls as a way of saying thank you for all of her help & patience.
Once that was sorted I would have my transition done privately & go on the mother of all shopping trips
Move to a place where no one knows me
Change my name
never answer the phone
Well I don't play the lottery for one I'm so tired of false hope and dreams that don't come true. so my odds are lower than most lol.
Mend my broken body, Put some money away for my whole family to retire in comfort as when and if they choose, Buy a normal house with several spare rooms for my friends to stay in, Pay off my student loans, Give my friends gifts, things they actually need like training for career opperunties :), Learn to drive, Give a decent chunk to a homeless charity, I'd fund myself through an internship or masters in biology. Depending how much there is left I might do nice things for the community helping those in need ect play areas for kids in the estates and such.
Overall not much else would change I might go nuts and splurge £20 on an MP3 player tho :P I'd still food shop at aldi, clothes shop at primark, and use my same old brick mobile phone. XD
Ohh lottery money!
My bf and I have plans, you see :)
1. Cryonics insurance for both myself and my bf.
2. Making sure we are finally together. (we are in a long distance relationship over too many countries)
3. Securing some happiness (quality of life, having what we need/what we want, putting some for our future needs)
4. Help our parents/families as may be needed.
5. Donate to the advancement of life saving technologies.
I am happy to say none of this money is probably needed on surgeries! :) (waiting for my bottom fix, 44 days to go!)
Ok Which way is the mall again?? LOL. Shoes, clothes, A Car, and i would get my hair done. Also give my my mommy some money she is long overdue for some self indulgance. =)
PS. The mac counter at Dillards. Every color and anything i can carry out of there.....
Quote from: tekla on May 20, 2011, 12:00:32 PM
Move to a place where no one knows me
That is the best idea so far.
I'd definitely consider transitioning a more serious option for me with the possibility of affordable cosmetic surgery. Student loans racked up paying out of state tuition would also get paid off, finally.
1. Pay off all my debts ( and Julie's)and start fresh.
2. Set up education and trust funds spread over many years for our kids.
3. Buy a home in a warm climate and a sailboat for Julie and I to travel as far as we like.
4. Get my dental work done, hair filled in, and maybe some bigger implants. Same for Julie, less the implants!
5. Live for a year at a time in a few of our favorite places around the world. (those I've read about)
6. Set up an endowment, maybe using life insurance, for Trans Education & anti-bullying , Equality lobbying, and GRS for needy transitioners.
7. Take more music lessons, and work my way into the music scene maybe in writing or production.
I'd make sure my kids are taken care of, stash a bunch away so I'd never have to worry about money then spend the rest of the money messing with the phobes' heads.
- Get GRS and a BA.
- Start a Sanctuary House for all Transpeople. No one would go homeless again.
- Immigrate to England.
- Set up Education Trusts for my Grand babies.
Well, naturally I'd take care of family and friends and of coarse look after my own wants and needs... But I would also set up a variety of regenerative charity accounts
I'd also put Janet and a few others to work organizing transition houses world wide
It's either that or sit around on my spoiled butt getting drunk and high and fat and producing a failed rap album then buying up a city block in the middle of an enpoverished neighborhood to build a really weird mansion and then leaving what ever is left over to my stupid spoiled dog when I croak :P
Likely die of a heart attack or stroke from shock...
Just kidding.... sort of, that is the way my luck tends to run.
Now if I were to actually survive... I would move to what I deemed to be the most trans friendly place I could think of... regardless of cost, since money would no longer be an issue.
Hopefully accelerate my living full time in the process and not worry about the cost of SRS after a year of living full time.
In the meantime would donate to a few charities and do a lot of traveling... I certainly wouldn't work anymore...
I'd buy a house, begin HRT, buy a Bentley.
Then I'd write and shoot my Oscar winner.
Ahh, the first rule of film school. 1. Never use your own money.
Quote from: tekla on May 20, 2011, 10:11:04 PM
Ahh, the first rule of film school. 1. Never use your own money.
That's because most people have no idea how to make a movie and lose their money.
Good thing I do. ;)
but the real question is can you play the (random) lottery?! 8)
That's because most people have no idea how to make a movie and lose their money.
Good thing I do
If I were you I'd frame that and put it right next to your Oscar there on the mantel.
The real reason you don't use your own money to make your first movie is so you can make a second movie.
Quote from: tekla on May 20, 2011, 11:12:19 PM
That's because most people have no idea how to make a movie and lose their money.
Good thing I do
If I were you I'd frame that and put it right next to your Oscar there on the mantel.
Maybe I'll make it part of my acceptance speech.
SRS.... though I'm terrified of surgery due to blood condition I have, so I either have to get over that demon or live non-op.
I'd also donate a good chunk of it to charity, and then use some more to start my game design studio! :)
1 Million
100 k in to plastic surgery
2 k into good clothing
1k into vacationing at some fancy place
20 k to my mother
~
then I would go find a guy to stay at for free, put my money into savings, and afford my college that way. Do some stripping on the side. Then I'll open a strip club, try to get my MBA, and then open a franchise. Then I'll call it a day.
After the paramedics restart my heart, I would
1) Setup college funds for the grand kids.
2) Take care of the immediate family
3 - 5- 6 THERPY, HORMONE, SRS !! AND MAYBE SOME FFS !
7) Invest
8) Travel !! (No more work for me or the wife )
Kia Ora,
::) I would spend it wisely, like "gamble" it all away ;)
But on a serious note I would continue to practice what I preach "altruism" ...
At this present time in my life I don't have all that I "want" but I do have all that I "need" ! {And right now all I "need" is to meditate and go to bed}
"Happiness is just a state of mind!"
Metta Zenda :)
Since we are speaking hypothetical here...........Say i would win 25million (lowest powerball i think)
1. 2 mill to my brother
2. 2 to mother/father
3. 10 to IRS/State
4. every employee gets a 25k bonus in check
5. Get my SRS/major plastic surgery
6. Pay off what bills i personally have.
7. set up a fund to help other TS by offering voucher referal serivce to endo/therapist/dr.
8. 1971 hemi cuda convertible (purple 4 speed radio delete ----- had one when i was 16 and wanted it back ever since)
Transition related costs, world class BTW. College funds for nieces/nephews. Car w/driver. Philanthropy. Cool pads in cool places. First class travel. Venture Capitalist to continue the preceding lifestyle.
Quote from: tiffany_marie on May 20, 2011, 09:54:15 PM
Likely die of a heart attack or stroke from shock...
Do you mean like Ned Devine?Waking Ned Devine - trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osmPlQXzXXA#ws)
first thing I need to get some oral surgery
laser hair removal
new female wardrobe
road bike
therapist
pills
more surgery
and finally guitars ^.^
i'd pay for Janet Lynn's surgery, open a sanctuary for cats and dogs...maybe horses too & travel, just travel.
It depends somewhat on the amount won (I know, greedy, greedy). Assuming a large payout, and don't we all assume that, I would:
Pay off all bills and debts and put finances on a lifelong strictly cash basis.
Obtain all reasonable feminazation surgeries and procedures beyond the basics I now have scheduled.
Help all deserving family members and friends.
Go on a large shopping raid for cars, new house, clothes, jewelry, toys, etc, etc.
Set up a foundation to support, aid and underwrite transgender equality and work financially to underwrite campaigns to defeat the vicious right-wingers that attack us and to destroy them personally in the same manner they use (yes, get down in their dirt; whatever it takes to get them) political speech over.
Set up a seperate foundation to support my historical interests, also long-term program to help preserve various local businesses and enable them to remain open.
Susan Kay
1. First I would move my mother and brother back up north;
2. Next I would have work done on hair, teeth, and face;
3. Third I would open a scholarship fund in my daughter's memory;
4. After that I would find a customer shoemaker to make me pretty shoes in my size (14);
5. Then would come the cruise, shopping trips, house, etc.
I would pay for hair removal and go crazy with bringing it to the body too. I would also pay for FFS if I see I need it. Then... I would buy a house, and an electric car, and I would hire someone to clean my house every week and things like that :D.
(Maybe I'd travel somewhere too, but not sure.)
I'd buy and do up the perfect little flat (nothing too outlandish, but with enough room to put all my cds/books on shelves).
Then I'd fund a good retirement for my parents and a decent start up for my sister, pay her and my university debts off.
Then, I would probably start a theatre company for all my various friends to write/direct/act/design etc for - thus providing a lifetime of fun, hard work, freedom and creative type stuff.
Depends, if it is a $7 lotto I'll buy a monster and go bowl. lol
Ok, really. If it was in the millions of dollars I would
~Put 2-4 million in the bank drawing interest to live off of. 1 million at 5% interest is a free $50,000 at year with out touching the original million, that will cover my bills, utilities, fun stuff.
~I would buy a good amount of land with a nice, modest, small house for when I have company. There will be a Pool house/studio apartment where I would live that is basically a library and tech lab in one where i can do me research, experiments, and....just be me.
~As a former amateur pro motocross racer, I would go find a few young kids who don't have anything and buy some bikes and sponsor them racing. I have already done this once while I was racing and want to to do it again but be able to take them to Nationals and provide a private practice track.
~Buy my parents a house. As different as we are and even though they know nothing of me being TG they always been there. They deserve it.
Quote~Put 2-4 million in the bank drawing interest to live off of. 1 million at 5% interest is a free $50,000 at year with out touching the original million, that will cover my bills, utilities, fun stuff.
This. Excellent idea.
Depends on how much.
Move out. Transition.
that's all I really care about right now.
start up my own second hand bookshop (I'd live above the shop to save travelling to work), get hair removal treatments for my body and legs (the hairs are very stubborn, they really cling on in there when I try to epilate), maybe a new car but nothing flashy just a nice little urban runaround, definetly some new clothes, shoes, bags & bling, anything left would go in the bank and hopefully I'd earn enough profit on my shop to be able to afford private therapy & surgeries, I don't want to be a burden on the NHS if I can afford to go private
Unlike Tekla, I would have someone to answer the phone for me and insult telemarketers!
Look after family and friends.
Comlete transition, SRS , BA etc.
Buy houses in Tasmania, Scotland, London and Paris.
Buy motorcycles, guitars,bass guitars, and shoes.
Unlike Tekla, I would have someone to answer the phone for me and insult telemarketers!
Real life people, who have really won the lottery (and winning the lottery has a surprising number of bad outcomes, but that doesn't surprise me, I think if you really want to totally wreck and destroy a human being, give them everything they want), will tell you it's not the telemarketers that will make your live a living hell, it's your family, followed by your friends.
I originally thought I'd just skip the phone, but it does come in handy, but I don't answer it now (unless it's money) if I get back to you in a week, you're obviously important. So winning would be no huge change in my life in that regard.
Besides I'm not sure you can insult telemarketers. I think they have had the ability to be insulted surgically removed in the same way the members of the US Secret Service have all had their sense of humor removed.
First I would give half to my wife so I wouldn't feel guilty about how I spent the rest. Then I have some family members and one friend I would help out. And with time and money I could afford hair removal, pills, surgeries and what ever else it would take to look as I would like. If there was anything left I would buy a shoe store.
1) Transition costs (laser/srs/ffs)
2) Grad school
3) Scholarship fund
I don't actually know.. :o
Well i'd start with financial security a nice house, feminization and live off some interest but depending on how much I'd love to fund/research medical advances < trouble with the medical advance funding one is lottery's are huge for personal stuff but when it's spread over something so demanding like a charity or research center that money soon depletes. I guess my real point is if i had enough money to do anything id do the research thing but realistically I'd probably stick with a simple home and feminization maybe the odd treat here and there, I've always been relatively money aware so i'm sure i could make it stretch especially if i pretended not to have won anything for a month or so since the interest would be more in that example (but i know i'd give into the house atleast early on)