If I won a million dollars what would I do?

So what would you do if you won a million dollars?

Catbert brought this up on another thread actually.

http://www.cointalk.org/showthread.php?t=39021
Post #14.

I know what I would do. I'd be immersed in coins more than ever. I would also probably continue working at the coin shop to stave off boredom.

I look at it this way. I love coins and always have. NOW I have access to more coins. Yes, Catbert money does corrupt.

However,

If I could spend hours just looking through what comes in the door (I do it to an extent anyway) and help turn it for a modest profit fast I'd do it all day.
As it is now I'm helping on a few want lists. I don't look to make a killing. I look to be fair, make a few bucks for my time and keep on rolling.

Profit would be used toward "my coins". Things I've always wanted.

My view has changed a lot but also remained the same. I now find it easier to sell coins but only because my supply is better.
If I can get a coin to someone that really wants it and I'm not that interested it's really cool. Everyone wins IMHO.

I work at the shop from 9-5 then come home, hang out here, do some selling on the side and still paint and drywall.

I'd cut the paint and drywall in a heartbeat.

My level of "coin geekiness" gets worse every day. I like it and my wife is great about it.

So what would you do?

clembo

 

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Is that $1,000,000 before taxes or after taxes?

 

Buy some coins that I could never afford but love , and coins I always wanted but didn't want to spend that much on , like 1909-S-VDBs , Unc early dollars , & get my wife that bigger house she wants .
rzage

 

Does it really matter? $100,000 could get me started just might take a bit more time.

 

After the misses got her cut ($900,000), I would buy coins with the remaining $100,000.

 

I would do research and travel and find that tree that grows money

 

I'd buy a few coins that I need and some Harley Davidsons, but, a million dollars dont go as far as one may think.

 

by my calculations after taxes 1,000,000 would come to about $7.50.

just enough for an AG Barber Half.

 

Pay off the house, keep the 240k miles truck n drive it till the wheels fall off. Get some bullion, some CDs 1,3 and 5 year, bonds,downpayments on a few foreclosures to fix up and rent out, daytrade stocks. Go to ANA and learn how to grade. Metal detecting. Then I would take half of the intrest I earn and use it to buy coins and reinvest the other half to do all over again. Oh yeah, I might get a gold four knuckle ring with my name on it and a diamond for the dot on the I and Definately start a free school on numismatics for all ages.( U got to give back ya know) Drive an icecream truck and search the coins I get from that and make some rap songs about how 2 start a business and invest.

 

A million dollars isn't much money these days. I suppose I'd pay off some stuff and use the rest to travel a little. Not enough to quit work, but too much to blow all on coins (according to my wife anyways). Now, if I won a 60 million.......
Guy~

 

never buy another coin

 

If I had a million dollars......:whistle: - Name the group who sang this song.

My wife knows that if we hit the lottery all I'm doing is collecting coins and fishing.

Honestly, at my age, realistically, even if I won a million dollars, it would all be invested so that by the time I am at retirment age I will have several million dollars.... then collect coins and fish! hya:

Ok, maybe I would take a few dollars and treat myself.

 

Buy that motorhome we have been dreaming about and travel the good ole USA, below the speed limit and with my left turn blinker on the whole time !!!

 

1. Pay off my mortgage.
2. Buy some needed equipment for my business.
3. Do some remodeling.
4. Do some travelling. Visit the Major League Baseball parks I have not been to plus a bunch of Minor League parks. Attend some national coin shows.
5. Make some investments in real estate (while it's a buyer's market).
6. Buy a few nice coins.

 

go to MIT
get my masters
buy my mom a house in Poland
build a complete St Gaudens set and a MS walker set
put the rest in investments and recycle my earnings

 

1. pay mortgage and other assorted bills
2. set up college fund for children
3. start up a coin business

 

Well while I would like to buy coins with it, that would be farther down the list...

#1: buy land.
#2: build a house.
#3: Marry the girl of my dreams.
#4: Mass Market my business nation wide.
#5: Take a buddy of mine out west Elk Hunting.
#6......

Speedy

 

Former NY Mets relief pitcher Tug McGraw put it best...

"I'd spend about 90% of it on wine, women and song; and then I'd waste the rest."

 

that would be the bare Nakked ladies

nowi f i suddenly came into a million $$$$ i wouldnt spend it on coins. Upgrade the house, buy the state offered college trips for my kids (its where you pay todays rates for college, and then when they are ready to go years down the road... its free - tuition is anyway), then invest a large portion of it for future needs and retirement.

a million just isnt alot of money any more!

now if i suddenly came into a billion (or some other outrageously large amount lol).... my collecting habits would get ALOT busier!!!

 

You would be correct my friend..... now if only I had a prize....