So you won $330 Million...

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Dutch

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What do you do?

I would not buy duck property for a while. I'd follow the migration and film it.

House on a beach somewhere
House in the mountains somewhere.
New Cameras and new lenses.
NO DEBT for me or any of my family.
duckboats.net funded in perpetuity. (yep you can hold me to that)
Get a full body tattoo of myself, only 4 inches taller.

what would you do?
 
Give it to children around the world that are in need. Not kidding either! God has blessed me and my family with everything we need.

Todd
 
Pay off all debts.
Finish the remodeling we started 3 years ago, including paying someone to come build this dog pen!
Fully fund kids college accounts.
Buy land in a couple of select locations: they arent making any more and it aint gonna get cheaper.
Travel, for fun, for hunting & fishing & to see relatives.
Buy a pile of stuff I think I need.
And, some big charitable donations as well, forgot to add that at first.
 
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Hire an ACE finanicial planner and attorney

Except for a few mill walking money up front, set up a low risk investment portfolio and invest the entire thing to generate 5-7% return. I think I'd be able to get by on $8-12mil/yr.

Maybe some sort of trust fund to keep the government's hands off of my money when I die so that my kids and following generations can hopefully have a perpetual comfortable life.

Set up some scholarship funds for my kids' parochial grammar and high schools. They've treated us well over the years. Give them some $ for capital improvements too.

My church bought some open property across the street some years back with the hope to build a community building.....Build one and dedicate it to our priest who was murdered in our church and his replacement who passed away unexpectedly last year. Two fine priests who were called up to the big guy too soon.

Take a LONG vacation......
 
I would go on ebay and buy a bunch of bands and a couple goose calls and be a professional hunter. Then I'd drive up the cost of classic shotguns with a buying spree.

Hey Dutch, for you're house in the mountains look up a small town named Rochford SD. Half an hour to the north you can see 40 inches of snow a couple times a winter. Go an hour to the east you can get on an airplane in a city that hardly gets snow. No bears but a few mountain lions, good trout fishing. Do I get a finders fee if you win?

Tim
 
Chraity 1st
Kids college, and put each one an account to get started in life that they can't touch until their 35
Buy land lots of it lol
pay off debts ,
take care of my family and friends debts that were my friends when I was poor.
build a nice house on the land I bought
then buy all the toys and stuff I think I gota have lol
Take my family on trips hunting and fishing and just to go see what we never saw before.
 
Say the serenity prayer, crack a beer, and figure a way to spend the rest of my life doing something useful with it for others

and maybe just have a little fun
 
I did? I'll send you my email and address where you can send the check - Whoopeeeeeeeee

First thing I would do is get the TV cameras right in front of me and tell the world "the following people on this list can kiss my ass". After that.....

Have multiple drinks - not one
Change my name to something completely stupid
Quit work
Find something in life my wife and I can do some good in for others
Treat the family to a trip to Hawaii
Buy a golf coarse/club
Buy a big ass yacht with duck boat tenders
Design the next great product after the spinner (kidding, kidding....)
And so on and so on.......

Mark W
 
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I'd buy XXXXXX, North Dakota, the whole town, buy a seersucker suit and straw fedora, and make my town's residents call me Colonel Jim
 
I'd give it away to folks for purposes I stood behind, Not all of it, but a big chunk of it.

I'd probably build a cabin someplace in Alaska and get a bunch of dogs and write more.

Oh, and maybe take a flight in a P-51 mustang.
I've always thought it'd be fun to do that.
 
truely one would be out of sorts if this would happen ,so i would have to say help as many folks as possible
just the interest would be enormous ,,,,,

id finaly get my dream boat i imagine lol...
 
Purchase a new duckhunting partner ! My partner Andrew has all the excuses this year , he says he is working and traveling , for all i know he is on exotic hunts all over the world !!!!



Dave M
 
I'd ditto many of the above suggetions reguarding charities and doing something for others. In fact there would be a certain carver in Ohio who would be very busy and the folks in Nigeria would be getting many more water wells.

Then I would follow the migration at least one or two seasons,,,,,,,,,, and take friends!!
 
1st thing would be to talk to a financial planner, and set aside 90% in whatever way works best tax-wise. Then my wife and I would play a game of airport roulette for about a year or so.

For those of you who don't know, this is where you show up at the airport with just the clothes on your back, and you take the next random flight out. You do the same thing at the next few airports you land at, and when you're tired, you go to a hotel and hang out in that city/country for a few days/weeks then do it all over again :)

I would make it home in time for hunting season; perhaps take a few outfitted/guided hunts here and there.

During my travels, my wife and I would decide how much money would be given to family, to charity, and where we will settle down and where we would have apartments/cabins, and what time of the year we would go there. For sure we would get a cabin on the French River in Northern Ontario! Great fishing/camping/canoeing! Maybe even moose hunting (if we become Ontario residents). Maybe we'd also get apartments in Algarve in Portugal, Prague and/or Budapest.

Our main residence would have to be a horse farm with several horses for cross country (my wife's hobby), a barn for my duckboats and hunting gear, a trap thrower underneath the back porch, areas where I can train the dogs I intend to have (who knows, maybe I will end up a dog trainer), and a full sporting glays course in the woods/fields for when my wife isn't riding.

I wouldn't mind taking a off a year to Follow Todd into Alaska (or Yukon) and build my own cabin the wilderness and live there for awhile, just to see if I can do it.

Yeah... that'd be nice.

Anthony
 
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