If you had a million dollars...

[Reba]

Anyone remember the OLD TV show "The Millionaire" ?

[JudgeNot]

Yes.  
(Of course I was just a wee lad...)

They never did show "The Millionaire's" face, did they?  Just his butler-type guy who went around doling out the checks...

[Early57]

Start a Church

Buy some more Harley's

pay off my debts

[Reba]

Harleys?  Anything that looks that mean and sounds that rough, and makes ya feel so free has to be SIN!

[Symphony]

It's certainly fun to dream about.

After taxes, or before?   After tax would be 'bout 600,000, I think.

So if I had 600,000, I'd prbly give 15% to charity(Christian--maybe missions...).

That'd leave 510,000.   Another 40,000 to immediate family members.  

That'd leave 470,000.  Which I'd probly invest.  At 4%, pby in U.S. Treasuries, I guess.  4% would be 'bout $19,000 per year?

With that $19k, per year, I'd try to live on and  start a business on a shoe string, if I could.  

Maybe mow lawns or sumpthin.  

[Reba]

A million bucks and my Harleys are going backwords?

[JudgeNot]

I used to have a “reverse gear” for my motorcycle.  But then I decided it was more important for her to get the dishes and vacuuming done than to push me out of the driveway…

 

[TigerLily]

hmm  what to do what to do...
Im like alot of yall id LOVe to be able to do stuff like hand out money to strangers that are in need  or buy a bunch of groceries and drop them off at homes that i knew were in need (esp those with children) or secretly pay off some peoples bills and see the looks on thier faces when they recieve the bill  that says OWE: NIL.. PAID IN FULL...
or buy my parents a new home or car , hand over  the mortgage papers that says paid in full to my husband, but the very first thing id do is pay the tithes off it to deserving struggling churches and pastors , missionaries and charities that help feed  and cloth and take care of poor and sick children! It is wonderful to dream (i have to admit tho.,., id have plenty of fun having a spending spree fixing up my home and for my kids!! lol)
hmmm  to dream , to dream..

[Ambassador4Christ]

True wealth is not comprised of material things. The
Scripture calls these "uncertain riches" and warns us not to
trust in them (I Tim. 6:17). True riches is "to know the love
of Christ, which passeth knowledge" and so to be "filled with
all the fulness of God" (Eph. 3:19).

[Willowbirch]

Amen, A4C!

Its fun to think of what we'd do with a giant gift of money; but what do we do with the resources we currently have? Its important to be faithful with small things. (Very, very small things. Tiny, minuscule things... )

[Symphony]

(Very, very small things. Tiny, minuscule things... )


We get the point, willow..


   

[Whitehorse]

I heard on the news tonight that some 24-year-old won 49.9 million dollars in a lottery. He says he's buying a new home (he's in a trailer with his wife now) and then he's going back to school! Is that not amazing? A lot of people would quit school, but he's using to go. I think that's nice.

But of course there's the eternal value. The Bible says that if we are not faithful with worldly riches, who will give us eternal riches? And that we should use it to make friends for ourselves, obviously meaning to benefit the saints. Voice of the Martyrs would do amazing things with that kind of money.

[Tibby]

I heard on the news tonight that some 24-year-old won 49.9 million dollars in a lottery. He says he's buying a new home (he's in a trailer with his wife now) and then he's going back to school! Is that not amazing? A lot of people would quit school, but he's using to go.

I would do a little of both, I would buy off my college to give me a 3.9 GP every semester!   All the way to my 3rd PhD

[HopeAndFaith]

I would buy a 3 Musketeer's candy bar.

That's a mighty big candy bar! are you going to share?

I think i would pay off my house, fix it's problems(bathroom, roof, windows), finish the attic since my mom-in-law is coming to live with us. then i would put a big chunk in a education fund for my daughter, some for my neices and nephews, put some aside for retirement), then give the rest for charity. I hope there would be some left to give to charity after that, LOL!

i would like to give to abused kids, kids with terminal illnesses, battered women, and Christian out reach.

[Coyote]

First thing we would do is 15% tithe to the local outreach shelter. Pay off our measly 17000 dollar debt. Buy the old house we live in. Repair this old house. Fix my old car. Put money away for the 3 Kids edjukashun. Take care of my Dad's morgatge, and my Inlaws morgatge. Then take the childrens church groups out for Ice Cream. Then maybe buy my wife a cookbook and a cooking class  he he he he.

I would definatly keep working, and let my wife stay home if she wanted. We would still shop at Wal-Mart and the dollar store. We are just to Humble to show off.

My Wife's boss asked her how we raise 3 kids on 25k a year. My wife just laughed and told her that with faith we could live on alot less. I love that woman.


Love,

Coyote