Seriously, what would you do with a 1/2 bill?

[smitchell333]

Ccbmhmj mj

[Cono Este]

100' Swan. The rest treasuries until my circum navigation is complete.

[riser4]

Is Magic Mt. still for sale?

[Danno]

I used to have plans, but haven't updated them since I had a kid.

Old plan was to find one friend, hand them an around-the-world ticket and $10k, and say "let's go". When we got back, I'd buy a heli-skiing lodge and spend the whole winter there, hosting friends each week.

[alfajores]

I'd buy Alpental and pave lot4.

EPIC

[alfajores]

Change my name and become a school teacher. But only teach one class that I secretly fund the school district to offer, Wilderness Survival. Drive into work on a horse every day. The rest goes to the wife. She will be WAY more responsible than me (gf invests family funds and trusts for a living).

[uglymoney]

I'd buy this place since it is for sale and is one of the best places anywhere and get a lake house somewhere in the Adirondacks , a beach house for my sister.

[stuckathuntermtn]

Some of you are way too into cars.

[riser4]

As much as it sounds fun to own a ski area, that sounds too much like work. Much better to buy a nice house with some mountain acreage that have Earn Your Turns potential in an average snow year. You could have your own playground and much less upkeep. Get a few snowmobiles or a snowcat if you insist. Defunct ski areas qualify. Maybe make a little snow on a fun run for the kiddies or a terrain park if you must. But fuck having to maintain a whole ski area that the public expects to use or will be pissed about losing access to. For me a mountain property is more than just skiing. I see life-long year-round potential. Trout streams. A maple-sugar bush. Orchards. Some animals. A cool place to be. Away from the hustle bustle. And a nice place to hunker down when the SHTF. I'm from VT and I like water and meadow skipping, so what I envision is somewhere in northern VT, NH or the lakes area of Maine with a nice variety of terrain. NELSAP has a good list to start with. And fuck NY their gun laws suck.

And then travel for the rest. Chase the snow if you have to. Go to the city. Buy a time share or a condo if you must. Have an apartment in Manhattan. Whatever.

[huckbucket]

Step 1 is to find/hire bloodsucking, world-beating, lawyers and tax guys. Step 2 is to hire a full time chef and make sure I'm eating like a king. Step 3 is to hire the best trainer to get my ass into killer shape. Feeling good and eating well is the bedrock. Then I go for the endless river of hookers and blow.

[uglymoney]

As much as it sounds fun to own a ski area, that sounds too much like work. And fuck NY their gun laws suck.

I get that but I'd need something to do. Running around spending money on expensive things isn't really my thing. I'd probably give some money to sportsman groups that acquire land and habitat for wildlife and defend responsible hunting and harvesting but I don't see gun laws through an NRA prism so I'd buy into upstate NY in a heartbeat.

[riser4]

I get that but I'd need something to do. Running around spending money on expensive things isn't really my thing. I'd probably give some money to sportsman groups that acquire land and habitat for wildlife and defend responsible hunting and harvesting but I don't see gun laws through an NRA prism so I'd buy into upstate NY in a heartbeat.

Exactly, something to do. And on the land. Orchards, gardens, trout streams, pastures, animals, maple sugar, etc. Real maple syrup comes from a lot of places, but not NY. :P

[365wp]

Find the other half of the bill, tape them back together, and go buy a PowerBall ticket.

[Bromontana]

- quit job
- pay off all family debt, force parents to retire at RTJ, offer entourage member position to little brother
- put 20% towards housing homeless in big cities, either donate directly or start a small consultancy with funding available
- put 20% towards low income education grants for K-12 private schooling
- buy Brighton Ski Resort and all available land under Mount Kessler in teh wasatch
- start Utah chapter of NORML with a $10MM donation
- pay Steve Avery a million dollars to tell me the truth
- buy home on a beach in se asia

[iceman]

Buy a time share...

Dude you only have $500 million, you can't afford that. Ask Commonlaw.

[Brock Landers]

I'd try and pay my bookie. Depending on the late game today it may or may not cover it

[wicked_sick]

I'd buy an entire law firm and task them with keeping me out of trouble.

[assman]

Pursue winter around the world.

[legallyillegal]

two chicks at the same time

500 times

[wyeaster]

take care of myself and my family and my close friends for good (not a lot of people), chase storms until i can't, use a hundred million to start a permanent, sophisticated, legitimate campaign for reparations for slavery and native genocide.

[XXX-er]

probably be doing the same thing as I am now

[wyeaster]

A lil ski area in the Cascade Mountain Range would work well.

you have to anticipate climate change

[MontuckyFried]

Now that we're in for 1.3B, whoever wins should buy back James Cox Kennedy's land in Montana just so people will stop getting messed with on the Ruby.

Just bought a ticket today for kicks. Stupid tax, I know. Anyway, if I win, I'll start a heliskiing operation that will takes us anywhere we want to go in SW Montana. Free rides for all mags, plus airfare to get here. Lodging too. BBI16's would also get moved here stat as I will be providing everything for all participants. Muahahaha. Wish us all luck!

[riser4]

A lil ski area in the Cascade Mountain Range would work well.

Heh. I am sure it wuld. I would love to be neighbors. However, I am rather partial to New England. And I would want sugar maple trees. Although, Washington has that legal MJ thing going on. So I guess I would need two places, one on each side of the country.

[MontuckyFried]

And no. I will NOT keep working. Why do so many people say that? What the heck is wrong with you?!!!